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Teach the Novels in Level 1? Not in my CI Classroom.
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1 thought on “Teach the Novels in Level 1? Not in my CI Classroom.”
In my French I – IV-AP classes, we do out loud stories, with actors with dramatic flare; it works much better with cooperative classes. I serve 200 students a day, my largest classes having 41 and 36 students each. With the upper levels, we do quite a few other enrichment/extension activities, which they seem to prefer to non-stop stories every day.
The only way any of my students really learn to speak French well, and beautifully accented, is by experiencing the fantastic verbs at the core of each improvisational story, speaking in chorus, *in real time.*
The connection seems to happen when we see the words, hear them and connect them immediately to an original narrative.
I didn’t see my students getting much out of novels, over the years that I’ve tried them. Maybe my classes are too big; maybe I’m not that good at pre-teaching voc; maybe too many of my students are non-readers; who knows?
I just like out loud stories better for my particular students….
🙂