Here is an example of cRD. On page 48 of Le Voyage de Sa Vie, the protagonist Jean-Luc is grabbed by the villain La Femme Insecte. The scene I would focus on lasts only three lines. It has only about four dominant verbs and is therefore perfect for a very compact R & D 53 […]
I have mentioned RT and TPR and PSA and how they will occur much more often as teaching strategies in this new version of R & D. PSA will be a big player in it as well. A big player. A really big player. Because PSA shifts the discussion from the text to one about
Clearly, Sabrina’s Great Insight has prompted a need for some of us now to go over much of what we have done with TPRS/CI and re-evaluate all of it in terms of the need for thousands and not hundreds of reps, so I am starting to do that here with R & D. This is
So, in this new version of R & D I just snowplow* the boring parts of a chapter (Susie) and isolate and go crazy with the one or two paragraphs that lend themselves to RT and TPR and stuff like that (Blaine). As stated, I have always wanted to blend those two opposing approach to
So let me restate this change in what I consider R & D to be in its most effective form: 1. We address much less text to start class, just one short paragraph that has action in it. Again, if the text lacks action and power, if it can’t be TPR’s very well and if
Still reading about cRD? Then you are a marine. A CI Commando. Let’s make hats for San Diego. With CI Commando on them. So, among other things, in this more compact version of R & D: 1. I go slower. OK, that’s not new but I gotta say it and do it anyway. Gotta the
Keep in mind while reading this that there have been two dominant schools of thought on how to read a novel in TPRS/CI circles over the past fifteen years – one has been to plow through the book. That has been the position of Susan Gross. Then there is Blaine Ray’s position of reading and
So, in this new different way to do R & D, in simple terms, I just go nuts with two or three verbs from the novel, using TPR and RT and PSA to a ridiculous degree to build an entire class around just those verbs and three CI strategies that most of us know about
I have been going too fast in an effort to get through the novels. Maybe some can relate. Narrow and deep – good. Shallow and wide – bad. I have therefore decided to redefine and implement a brand new version of R & D in my instruction of novels. As I stated before, this new
We have had three breakthrough ideas over the past week here, strategies that can be considered in the same discussin as the most bad ass teaching idea of all time, jGR, which in my opinion can be used to great effect in every single classroom in the world and should be because it could revolutionize
I’m going to put this up right now as a sticky post. I shouldn’t. It’s too long and there is too much happening here already. Most readers of this blog will be confused. I can’t help it. It will need some editing so forgive the mess. It’s like a chantier and it is just going to
Alison Thompson shares this for Chinese teachers as we round the bend and head for the finish line: Hi Ben, In the special features at the end of Mulan, Jackie Chan sings “I’ll make a man out of you,” in Mandarin. Thought there might be some teachers who could get a day or two of
