Matava’s Best

Drew requested a list of best Matava scripts for levels 1 and 2. If you wish, and have three to five really good ones that you could rank in order of effectiveness in the classroom at whatever level, pls. comment below. I would bet that the best scripts are the same for many of us. My […]

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Ben’s List

Chris asked about sharing some unfinalized scripts with the group in response to a general call by me for more materials to replace or supplement what we have already in the TPRS world. In that regard, I feel that there is now going to be a great surge of quality materials out there for some reason.

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Little Lead Pipes

When Annick Chen and I presented to our school’s math department on comprehensible input/gesturing the other day, I was circling  “Annick wants candy”. After a few minutes, a sour member of the math department said in French, “Je veux dormir” and kind of put her head down in an attempt to get a laugh that never

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Question

Got this from elissa: Hi Ben! I feel like there was blog discussion at some point about parent/curriculum night tprs demo ideas, but can’t find it… can you point me in the right direction? Thanks! elissa Two places I found are below but if this jogs anybody’s memory please advise: https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/10/18/parents-night-question/ https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/09/18/parents-night/

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Fake Class Writing Option

Hayne came up with an option involving writing and reading practice that represents a nice option to our basic fake classes routine. It allows the kids to do nonjudgemental peer review of each other’s writing. Using this option allows: a. kids to know and respect each other in class. b. administrators to see that we

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April Update

For me, the big win in March was the metacognition discussion and resulting document. I feel like it will force very positive self reflection and discussion up the taxonomy about what counts most in our classrooms with the kids. How can we ask them to show up for class in the ways we want unless we

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Krashen Video

We often forget to build our stories around the target structures, focusing on the story instead. It is a mistake to think that it’s about the story when it’s about the structures. I recently finished editing one of the videos from when Krashen visited with Diana and Beniko Mason and I talk about this same idea

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