In R and D we get facts from the kids after reading the text and we compare them to the facts about the chapter books – Robert’s term of chapter books is correct, by the way, they are not novels – and we keep the kids involved in the reading in that way. It’s the third […]

Last month I had a good ending to a class story with the cloze technique. I don’t know how many of us use that. I forget to do it a lot because there is often the quiz and the artist’s work to process at the end of class. However, I have found that when I retell the

Chris has been busy with all his different responsibilities and we need to send him lots of ideas now. We need to step up for him. Keep in mind that his audience (see below) will be full of skeptics drawn to the session because they want to keep their jobs and, as Chris says below,

Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor – http://teachersactup.com/ Carol Gaab – http://www.tprstorytelling.com/ Diana Noonan/DPS – http://curriculum.dpsk12.org/lang_literacy_cultural/world_lang/index.shtml Leigh Anne Munoz – http://munoz.chinohills.groupfusion.net/modules/blog/multi.phtml?profile_id=75981&sessionid=151ef0bfedfa4ad3bcaedbe4a8899183 James Hosler – jameshosler.blogspot.com John Piazza – www.johnpiazza.net/comprehensible_input Laurie Clarcq – http://www.heartsforteaching.com http://www.EmbeddedReading.com http://www.mwcsd.org/webpages/lclarcq/ Charlotte Dincher – www.NetzwerkTPRS.de (in German) Judy Dubois – http://funnylittleclassroom.blogspot.fr/ Martin Anders – http://tprs-for-germany.com/blog (in German) Mary Beth Tietgens – https://sites.google.com/a/biddefordtigers.org/spanish-1-2/ James Hosler –

If you have a website/blog, please send it in to me at benslavic@yahoo.com. We have the Group Members bio list and the Group Members email list (pls. update those as well if you haven’t yet) and now I think we should have a Group Members website/blog category as well. Thanks!

This is further information about Readers’ Theatre, provided by jen after a recent Carol Gaab workshop. I publish it pretty much verbatim here as an article so we can include it as another article on RT in the RT category. When we have enough articles on RT, we’ll organize it, put it up as a

In a recent comment, jen said this about Robert’s Essential Sentences: …I love the Essential Sentences! I have not used this as an exam yet, but plan to do this for sure. I actually used it as a sub activity. So great! It is an excellent tool for the teacher to determine how deeply the

This is taken from a response in comment form to Kevin a little while ago. I think it was a comment but I wanted to make it a post. It is just more discussion about a fact that I must keep trying to remember if the method is to work for me – that learning

Beth is new to the group – welcome, Beth! – and asks this great question. I hope we can provide some concrete answers: Hi Ben, I’m so excited that I finally got subscribed to your blog today. I have been using TPRS for over 15 years. We haven’t had textbooks for that long and I

Melissa has some important questions. Let’s provide her with some great responses:   Hi Ben, I am back to having a hard time again. I feel so all-over-the place with this stuff.  I feel like the stuff my students shout out for cute answers are so all over the place… like I’ll ask where did

Reading novels could replace traditional TPRS storytelling. We should look at the idea, at least. It is possible that we can do more with less effort when we base our comprehension based instruction on reading instead of on the three steps of TPRS. I am going to start writing a lot about that and may

Here are the last two clips from the story – Brrr! by Jim Tripp – done in November with a combined level 3 and 4 class in their first year of TPRS. The first two clips are the PQA to set up the story, the second two clips are the story, and these are the reading class