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Play and Speech Output

  It takes approximately 400 repetitions for our brains to make a new connection, unless it’s done through play, in which case it only takes 10 to 20 repetitions. Not only do children love play, but they learn through play. Children acquire so many skills through play:   Fine motor skills Speech output Gross motor

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Pear Deck

This post is for those working in UCI Book 2 making Individually Created Images: In the link below, Madi Cabral offers a way to add some digital interaction to the slides that you create with yaour students in an online instructional format if you are forced to do that by COVID or for any other

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On Testing

Assessment instruments like common assessments and formative tests that require memorization destroy our students’ sense of self-confidence in the language. Who says that they have to learn it by a certain date, all at the same time? Some kids who process our instruction fast will do well on the test, some who process more slowly

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Those Novels

What concerns me about those little chapter books put out by Ray and Gaab et al is that they are being used too early in a child’s language career. Huge amounts of auditory input should precede reading input, and the CI world, in rather cavalier fashion, currently dives into the novels way too early in

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Ultimate CI Book 1

Of the three books attached here in a post a few days ago – free only to patrons – the Ultimate CI Books (1 and 2, with Book 3 due out sometime in 2022) actually took the past six years to write.  Books 1 and 2 originally appeared in 2016 as one big monster book

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Stories Are Easy!

This post is for people doing UCI: Stop getting freaked out by thinking how hard it is to create stories using comprehensible input. Just do this: As you make the tableau (QL2 – 4), DRAW INFORMATION FROM WHAT YOU ESTABLISHED WHEN BUILDING THE TABLEAU to make the story. Smack dab in the middle of those

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Happy Ones

When we teach according to the standard of Communication and the research that says that Comprehensible Input is the way human beings acquire languages, we open up for ourselves in the act of teaching each day a wide expanse of possibilities. What possibilities? Happy ones. If something occurs during our instruction that is funny, we

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