Chunk Dictation 2 – again
Chunk Dictation works best at the end of the year when the kids have had lots of comprehensible input. It obviously can’t work in the beginning months of study since output in the form of writing can only follow massive
Chunk Dictation 1 – again
I' m feeling that I need to republish these two posts from about a week ago. (Unless I am the only one struggling with kids who just won't stay focused in their restraining devices). Again, this is for discipline more than
To Clarice – 5
Clarice remember that you can always immediately bail out to a dictation. Yes - CI instruction comes with an inflatable life raft. Just stop what you are doing - PQA , story, reading class, whatever - and do a dictee
Chunk Dictation 2
Chunk Dictation works best at the end of the year when the kids have had lots of comprehensible input. It obviously can’t work in the beginning months of study since output in the form of writing can only follow massive
Chunk Dictation 1
Sometimes, teachers feel that they fail at comprehensible input methods. That they simply can’t get on the CI train. Blaine and Susie and Jason can run that fast but we can’t, is the feeling. But look around. Schools now are on the
A Little Idea That Has Been Helping
I have been playing around with presenting the structures for a story embedded in a short dictation. I start the class with an easy and loosely constructed, roughly three sentence dictation with the target structures in them. It seems to bring