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5 thoughts on “Snowplow Reading”
“playing in the snow” also sounds a lot like getting those deeps reps from focusing via cRD on the really good, action-packed parts of a novel
We should use the term then. Playing in the Snow. Deep Reps. I’m through two classes today and in both I played in the snow as a direct result of the huge new insight from Sabrina about how much time it REALLY takes to acquire a term, if we were to sit down and be totally honest with each other. There is no research on it that I know of, so we are the only ones that can have this conversation. Can’t wait to talk to Dr. K about this in July.
Over the years we kind of assumed, falsely I am starting to see, that one good story or one good session of reading a novel was narrow and deep enough for acquisition of the targets. Hmmm.
Last year I started in with the entire day on Monday on the three structures to set up a story, greatly lengthening PQA, and now my entire perception is becoming more and more skewed in favor or working on Playing in the Snow for Deep Reps on just a very few structures, which for me are 99% verbs, for the entire period.
So that’s what I did in those two classes today so far and am about to do again and it felt really good and the kids were more on board that they usually are, which is a direct result of the reps, reps and more reps, the Deep
Reps in the snow.
Crazy? It doesn’t feel crazy. Won’t get much taught? You decide. What does narrow and deep even mean? Playing in the Snow for long periods of time, as long as possible. Deep Reps. Snow Leapord stuff.
We have deep snow here in Colorado anyway, right? Looking up at the fourteeners from Denver, Mt. Evans and Pikes Peak and Longs Peak, those boys will be covered with deep snow for months more. It’s a good image James and thank your for it.
I didn’t get what Robert meant about parking the snow plow to play in the snow the first time I read it but now I do. Thanks again James.
I think we can get a good taste of what we are teaching to our kids by watching others (TPRSers) teach in their language and try to get it. I watch Ben in French and I don’t look at the subtitles and see if I can understand or if I get lost. By doing this I get a god sense of what my kids are taking in. I can also get a good a good sense of whether I am ” parking in the snow ” long enough. I have realized thaat I don’t think I do a good enough job of teaching the vocabulary, and that some of my students are not getting it. I think watching others in another lanuage is valuable.
Observing each other is one of the big mantras in DPS. This is so true, Darren. The point about observing as many CI teachers as possible should be mentioned in the same sentence as SLOW. We learn how difficult it is to learn a language when we observe each other, trying to learn the language our colleague is teaching. And that makes us remember the big one that we should always always and really always be doing – SLOW.