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(Elementary) Report from the Field – Erica Ridge
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3 thoughts on “(Elementary) Report from the Field – Erica Ridge”
Erica congratulations. What strikes me about this report is how (being new to the process which can be so complex) you stayed right at the core of things with your kids. I would like to think that this means that the stories we did at Collegiate, esp. Ines’ one about the blue moon which was so sweet, successfully conveyed the heart of the star sequence process, enough that you were able to make it work so well.
You have made it so simple for a beginner but at the same time you know where you are going with the process in the fall. That is to be commended because the one thing that seems to have been missing – at least for me as a student of CI over the past 25 years – is clarity and brevity and simplicity.
You seem to have known intuitively that since you were working with the young kids, you needed to keep it simple, and in so sharing you have helped me understand what I could tell elementary teachers about what a good starting out process for kids that age would be – exactly what you have written above.
Clarity in the CI world has been a problem for me for years, really, and especially with the younger ones, and no blame because how could we even begin to figure out CI for that age when a lot of the time we didn’t even know what we were doing at the secondary level?
The good news is that Alisa Shapiro-Rosenberg in Chicago, whom Tina and I consider THE expert on elementary CI, is now working on an elementary level version of the Natural Approach to the Year book that we presented in Louisville and will be using at full force at our summer institutes in Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Philadelphia. Alisa is basically retrofitting the book for elementary teachers.
We are doing another (4 hour) workshop at Collegiate next week, as well. I don’t know if Diego told you about that.
So thanks for this great report. I will put it on my PLC and include you as a member at no charge if you ever want to visit.
Great report and thanks again for the detailed information, which will certainly help others.
Ben
These are real cool. I see now the importance of including activities like these to have student create products of their own. And while this may not be for acquisition, it is for their own peace of mind. I have students who needed more of these type of activities at the 8th grade level.
Delightful!!
I can imagine eventually transitioning the character template into the Target Language -“The character is afraid of ——-.”
Also, personally I wouldn’t bother with any repeating, echoing or parroting- Krashen and others have taught us that it doesn’t beget acquisition.
The thing abt literacy activities with 1st & 2nd graders is that there’s still a pretty wide range in decoding ability, w some Ss reading while others are not. So having cartoon storyboards gives lots of extra meaning and support for picture reading.