Question
Kara has a question for the group: As I wind down my first full year of CI, I'm looking for "final words" to end the year. Most of my students came with me on this journey of learning French without grammar
Testimonials for the New Book
A Natural Approach to the Year (2017-18) is a sequel to A Natural Approach to Stories (2016). It is basically how I spent most of my time over the past year and a half. After six previous books over the past
FAIR
I am starting to see that teaching French was only a vehicle to carry me into the battle ground of schools where I would end up fighting as hard as I could each day for 40 years. The newest book Tina
"Everybody Shut Up – I've Got To Get My French On!"
I just can’t see making reading competitive and that is largely what class novels/readers/chapter books do. How can the slower reading kids enjoy their learning experience when they can be seen, perceived, there is a feeling in the room, that
Report from the Field – Steven Ordiano
Hi Ben, In an effort to streamline assessments, I have started an interview process for all of my 2nd year students. I do this as a personalized one-on-one NT CI. It's kinda a farewell gift. Anyway, I have had the best
Rule #5 Question
Q. Can you give me a student friendly explanation of the following ruleplease? Do your 50%. A. Tell them that languages are about communication, not memorization, so that in your class they are expected to show up and to try to
Call for Free Choice Readers
Tina and I see a lack of availability of high quality, short, simple and inexpensive readers in our community. We therefore are putting out a call for a new kind of reader that fits the above descriptors that provides lessons
How We Differ
Someone asked me and Tina in an email how we are different from TPRS. Here is what we wrote back: It's a messy business, but the fact is that Tina and I agree that since we made the shift away from
Report from the Field – Julia Lynch
Julia reports on how her kids did with the storybook project: Hi Ben - Thought I’d send you an example final product. I’m super proud of the kids! There are mistakes in here of course, but I don’t say anything. They’ll stop