Fortunately, there are a wealth of German materials. Since you specifically asked about German I and II materials, here are some links to materials. You can’t go wrong with any of them. Gerhard Maroscher’s graded readers. I met Gerhard at the week-long, national German TPRS Coaching conference at Sweet Briar College in Virginia ( a […]
In the post below, Bryce addresses the spontaneous creation of CI as opposed to the standard option that we always have in the three steps. It’s the old question of whether to do stay close to the safety of stories or just roam free with one word images and PQA and the like. Everybody has
Here is a story that came out of a simple one word image today. It demonstrates the versatility of that process, which is explained in detail on this site at resources/workshop handouts. The word the kids chose was dog. The kids on first hour had the excellent idea of the dog coming into contact with
Thomas and I want to set up lists of links on our sites so that we can have easier access to each others’ blogs, but we need for you to send in your blog addresses before we can do that. This is all I have so far: tprsthoughts.wordpress.com – Thomas Young http://blog.heartsforteaching.com – Laurie Clarcq
I got an email from a colleague who asked if K really existed or if I was making the entire thing up. She really does exist and she is going to do great things – already is – on this particular planet. Below is her latest thinking on this thread. In it, she has certainly, and
Jason Fritze tells us how we can just open to a page in one of those super sized children’s books and just start talking about it. Totally stress free teaching. The words are so easy to get into the discussion – the visual input sparks discussion like nothing else. We talk about the power of
Warning: this is one long ass blog that I wrote, really to myself, in an attempt to pull out of a downward mid-winter spiral. I’m trying to get a focused high CI week going, because English has worked its way into my classroom more than I want it too lately. Anyone with ideas to add
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I got this great news from Martin Anders in Germany: Ben, The first version of my TPRS website for Germany is now online. It is: http://tprs-for-germany.com All the very best, Martin
A colleague wrote: I always come back from workshops thinking, “I’m at least that good! I can organize lessons like these!” And then when I get home to my own classroom, I find that I’m not that good. I react badly to classroom management issues, or I miss some vital sign from one of my
Jennifer wrote this: I had some truly amazing students last year. Amazing intellect, amazing creativity, amazing personality. Truly, I was blessed as a teacher to have some of these kids. One boy borrowed a grammar workbook to study at home. He came back to me a few weeks later to report that “I’m not quite sure
K responds to my comment here yesterday. I like the term she coined to describe real (CI, speech based) grammar – “language acquisition grammar” – that’s the opposite of the plastic/rules based grammar and a creative term. Still, we see in her update below the dominant role of the teacher and the poisonous idea that
There is a phrase in TPRS that was made famous by the master himself, Blaine. Thomas Young recently asked me and Bryce about it in an email: Hey guys, I have been thinking about the “tprs game” lately. How do you get your students to “play the game”? Any ideas are much appreciated! Thomas I
