Something to think about for the fall and the CWB cards:
Once you are done with the cards, or rather have exhausted their use since some of us use them all year round with the kids, there are mountains of options. The cards are only there to make sure that the trust is there, and to help expedite the norming of the rules. The general idea after the cards is to use whatever strategies you want to start targeting a few structures every day and working with them in simple stories or however you choose to do that. Bear in mind as you gear up for next year that your job with CI is to teach a few structures in each class via massive repetitions in context, and the strategy doesn’t matter. What matters, the only thing that matters, is that they are constantly hearing or reading the language in ways that they can understand. That is all that matters. So don’t get all hung up on which strategies to use when. Just keep the CI in mind and pour it on thick all year. To do that most efficiently, do a gut check and ask what your final decision is on how much you plan to use English in your classroom next year. If you say about 90%, you likely will be at about 50%-75% on the good days. Just sayin’.