February 6, 2020

Free Write Rules

If you are starting free writes now, try to follow each of these rules: 1. Write without stopping for 10 minutes. 2. When time is up, count the number of words you wrote and enter the total in your bar graph. 3. No English words in the story except for names. 4. Keep the sentences

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Brokenness

If it is true that language instruction in the U.S. is broken – across the board in general – then let’s not pretend (just because teachers are trying to make the research around comprehensible input work) that it’s working. My guess is that most language teachers are still mostly teaching using a 50 year old

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