Ben Slavic

Stories in the News

A big reason I got attached to Anne Matava’s story scripts is because they fit in so well with my need to be guided along through a story. A more honest way of saying that is that my CI train went off the track all the time when I was just learning the method and scripts kept

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Dictation Detail

Obviously when we do dictée we tell the kids the words for comma, period, question mark, quotes, etc., but I have started doing a cool thing that helps the kids become more aware of those pesky accent marks in French. If a sentence is: Sa mère crie… it often happens that the student “kind of knows” that

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Administrator Re-Education

This is a lengthy post that is intended simply to gather together in one place some of the ideas/comments on what Ben Lev started, and hasn’t stopped (see in red below), in drawing the attention of his principal to how the new CA standards might really be interpreted by teachers if they were to stop and think about

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Being The 96%

I got this email from John. I read it on a gut level. What he did was what students of language who feel the same way should also do. No exceptions. This is very strong! Ben, I just wanted to share an anecdote about an experience I had playing music which relates to our work: Last year

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