Call for Videotape

We exchange a lot of written ideas here, but think how much more helpful to new people it would be if we had a huge collection of videotapes that provides examples of all of the various strategies we use. Eric Herman’s video of MT got 68 comments and it was only posted a little while […]

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Connecting Words

Does anyone have a good list of connecting words? I need one. Or better, we can make one here. What happened was that as our kids in DPS got older with TPRS/CI, we all realized kind of together that we had created writing monsters. They could write so well because they had heard so much

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I Am The Tin Man

I’m the Tin Man. I always had a heart but I never knew it. It took people like Susan Gross and Blaine Ray and Laurie Clarcq and Jason Fritze to remind me of it, and to show me how to become real in my classroom. I am the Tin Man and I am the Velveteen

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Another Primer

I have added yet another Primer to the list above, this one by Carol Gaab. Like Robert’s, it is an authoritative statement, a tour de force for those looking to find the perfect response when asked to describe how and why we teach using comprehensible input: http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=2014 Thank you Chris Stoltz for sending this link

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