Hi Ben –
I have a girl in my Spanish 1 class who is getting RTI’ed for issue with attention and attendance. Apparently she is one of the most difficult students that teachers are dealing with in her other classes.
Yesterday afternoon she came into my room after school and asked to borrow one of the TPRS novels (Brandon Quiere Un Perro) that she’s been reading as SSR/FVR-because she finds it interesting. She also says that when she reads it she feels like she’s reading in English – it’s effortless.
This has happened to me only a few times as a teacher, that a student has asked to borrow a book, and in all the other instances it was my 4%ers.
One of the coolest parts about this was that the French teacher and I had just been talking about her and how she always comes into the French teacher’s class during the day to greet me even on the days I’m not there.
This is a girl who lives with her dad who is ill and has no mom in the picture. Struggles in all of her other classes. And she wants to read a book in Spanish on her own.
This nearly brought me to tears.
Thanks again for all your mentorship over all the years,
Annemarie
