Gallery
Anne Matava just sent me this image from her classroom in Maine: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMEG8-cYZDW0XDx95rqRMW1El0YPr1_GlitnCd3Du-sVdUZvVRtOwO-HRBdARc4lw/photo/AF1QipMo5afXD0ORgucXBeINMPlNGSlwo3GAsWCZCPDU?key=WlExR1Jrc0ZyMDdBM3pUMllnNC1WVWpxb2k3a0lB Those teachers working with ANATS* (the book that explains One Word Images/Invisibles) are asked to note the following: (1) The gallery is a subtle way to vastly improve class buy-in
Kathrin Shechtman on Story Listening
SL post from 2016: Kathrin explains Beniko's Story Listening in an elegant and simple way. The link is a must-see. In it we see great pacing, nice and slow. We see Kathrin just teaching language using language with the goal that
Character Development Before Starting A Story
I just found this unpublished and now completed draft that I wrote in January of 2016. It was about the same week that I first started developing the Invisibles concept. Kind of a blast from the past to read that
More Bail Out Moves
Alisa recently sharesd some pencil and paper bail outs for when we need to get the kids writing, if for no other reason than to give ourselves a break: 1. Turn a narrative into a Reader's Theatre. So you ask them
Mental Health
This is a response to a teacher who is at his wit's end about uninformed administrators requiring him to do things in his classroom that don't make sense in terms of the research: Well then if this problem will lead to
2nd Grade OWI – Who Draws It?
Alisa's 2nd grade class recently created a one word image together (below). I present it here to make a point about who draws at those lower levels. I'm not sure we've talked about this here yet or if this point
NTCI
I think that this statement reveals a big difference between NTCI and TPRS: “In non-targeted comprehensible input (NTCI) we use images as the starting point to impart language to our students and not the other way around. It is because images
Alisa's Story Collection
Our Alisa has already created a storybook collection in September with her 3rd and 4th graders. She sent me the collection which I share below. I feel that it is important to share here because we now have a great
Invisibles/OWI
If anyone wants to present on ANATS, Greg shared this with us awhile ago and thanks Greg: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jk0yDZyZS_7RuTS11lybO8hR2awwuc9D1woCaFd98DM/edit#slide=id.g2a2aee8035_0_24
The Idea of Novels is Fading
I just posted this a few months ago here but I am so passionate about the topic that I chose to post it again in case anyone missed it: Going. Going. Gone. The idea of novels is fading. We have worked too