Brick House 10
Point to the design of the building when reading. Don't stop and dwell on single bricks but point on and then on again to the next sentence, and then do that again with the sentence after that and keep on going.
Four Ways to Deliver Comprehensible Input
Comprehensible input takes four forms in my classroom: 1. PQA - this means that we use Circing to talk with the kids. There are no key structures (guideposts), as there are with stories. The target structures come randomly from the information
Let the Sharing Begin!
This was on Laurie's site today: It's a wonderful day! Scott Benedict has created a file on the site TPRStalk.com for Embedded Readings!! I invite you to check in and check out the beginnings of a new resource for teachers. I have uploaded
Summative Assement/Drew Hiben
Drew also had some new ideas for summative testing with CI. This posted here last December. Drew explains: I am thinking out loud here how I could incorporate Drew's recent description to jen of how he evaluates his level two students on the semester
L’Histoire de Bubahkameier
We did some filming of an Anne Matava story called "Lazy" (Story Scripts Vol. 2). The structures were travaille/works le patron crie/the boss yells paresseux/lazy but since we had an entire extra second day block to film (we decided to try to get as much footage of the story
Suggested TCI Schedule – Wed/Thurs
Wednesday/Thursday – on Wednesday and Thursday we do the reading class. This growing of the root and stem into a plant goes beyond mere application of the knowledge and content gained on Monday and Tuesday to the analysis of the
Sy Ying Lee
I got this link from Beniko Mason. In it, Sy Ying Lee implies that reading is vastly underutilized by most if not all of us. We have Krashen's research, but we don't use it, even though we know that it
Pobre Ana Reading Plan
Bryce recently posted this over on the listserve and I asked him if I could put it here too: POBRE ANA READING PLAN There is a lot that can be done with Pobre Ana. I have taught from the book for 11
The Hole In Their Hearts 2
I am about to embark, for the rest of the year, on using much more reading and songs to generate CI. I think that the focus on stories may have kept us from innovating more than we have into these
The Hole In Their Hearts 1
Jim said: I’m curious to know what you all think is most hurting kids in our buildings (I can think of many things), or shall I say where we should focus in order to help nurture a capable generation of young