This from Robert was first posted here in Sept. of 2008 and is worth dusting off a bit. Robert do you still do this? How have your timed writing classes evolved? Something that I occasionally do with Timed Writings (starting in late first year) is have them get in groups and share their stories with […]
Remember back in the Dark Ages when teachers would set the class up around a kind of temple (their desk) and then anoint the temple with their holy book (the textbook)? For those who can remember it, those were dark days indeed. That focus on the book and (God help us all!) worksheets left out
We have a jen and then another Jen in NJ, Jen Sparano. She needs urgent help and has come to the right place because I know that by tomorrow night she will have gotten some good answers from group members. Thanks in advance to all who help in getting this thing solved: Dear Ben, I
Sean Lawler made this comment last Sunday here in responding to skip crosby’s request for information on how many CI teachers use a textbook: This 21st Century Skills Map is informative. However, many things there we take issue with. For example, this 21st Century Skills Map makes some comparisons we wouldn’t agree with: In the
There was a recent post here from skip crosby: https://benslavic.com/blog/textbook-use-question/ As a follow up now, we need everyone in this group to please take this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oZq0abrOtio5ionkBX4-pUmLpmYJNZwy_0yTYlNeCZ4/viewform Thank you and skip thanks you as well.
I’m in Chicago today listening to Krashen. There are like 200 people in the room. He just asked everyone to raise their hands if they have heard of TPRS. There were less than 10-15 people. I was so shocked. There is such a disconnect. (Also he gave TPRS/Blaine a ton of praise.)
Here is a report from Bob Patrick: Hey Ben – I take great encouragement from things like this. Each year, we have students keep their timed writes in a folder. All they do is a word count, date a title and drop them in the folder. At the end of each semester, we give them
Diane shares: A CI Chinese teacher shared this link on a Facebook group. It’s a brief article on why storytelling is a powerful medium for language development especially among elementary ages. The teacher more or less describes a TPRS process in her classes of 90% or more English Language Learners. Thought it might be another
Leah said: My level 1 students are still blurting and having random English conversations during PQA, QA, the creation of stories, basically any CI speaking time. I enter their rubric grade EVERY day that we do CI (4 days a week). So, lots of grades are low and they know it. When I show grades
We no longer use verb conjugation charts in CI instruction. The reasoning is that kids need to hear first and look later, only after they can identify the verb by sound. There is nothing wrong with introducing verb charts in level four, when they can use the charts as filing systems for what they already
Reed Riggs is working in the area of research at the University of Hawaii and so I put him in touch with Eric and I like where the two of them might one day take the topic of CI research. Eric explains: Thanks for putting me in contact with Reed. We talked a bit today
Skip writes: Hey Ben, I recently got an (indirect) request from an administrator in the state about advice on two textbook series. I responded that I would not be the person to ask but offered to put the request on the FLAME list-serve. The administrator responded: Our district has been using TPRS for quite some
