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You won’t be teaching level I ever again? Wow! Can you tell us a bit about that?
Due to departmental politics, I recruit for my upper levels from my level I’s and I have to be the one to train the I’s in CI norms and expectations. I guess your department is supporting you? That must be amazing…
Leigh Anne it’s not so much about support is that I am moving to full retirement in the next few years. Next year I may just have one class if I can talk them into it. I would rather spend that time with my current kids and work with them as seniors. I have a lot of poetry to teach them. They will have earned it by listening to stories for two years.
Just to be clear on this, the kids read a novel during SSR which is completely different from the story that you create at the beginning of the week, right? So, two different kinds of reading going on every week. With 41 minute classes, I don’t know how I can fit it all in, but I sure want to start doing this (I even got the document camera, as per your suggestion). When you choose a novel for SSR, do you discuss it ahead of time (at least so they have an idea what the premise is), or do you just tell them to start reading?
Yes Brigitte. They read a novel during SSR which is completely different from the story for that week – usually a Carol Gaab or Blaine Ray book. The novels are graded to their reading ability. Blaine’s are graded already and Carol’s we are figuring out as we go more to them in our district and as Carol keeps coming up with more and more good choices. I will post a summary of her books, which I requested from her for personally, here as a post soon.
Ben,
In that 10 min of SSR, do you ask the students to read a certain amount? I ask with hesitation because I feel your answer may be “no” since that feels like forcing…but if you do, what do you tell them: in ten min try to read a page? reach page 2? Finish a chapter?
I suggest to them to read about a page or so. They always do, even the slow readers. So I minimize it. Most read much more. We end the four days in the same place. Many (most) have read past that point – they take it as a point of pride – but all have read up to that point.
Why do you recommend little novel reading for Spanish I? Don’t you think Spanish I could read 5-10 minutes of Pobre Ana at the start of each class? It’s pretty simple and that would be a great way for me to get them reading it without making it homework I think.
Laura
It’s a recommendation I made for myself and then I opened it up for discussion above. I should have clarified that. Sorry. My position is very much based on what Krashen has said about reading, or at least what I think he said, that reading should not be an academic exercise but one that is easy and effortless that comes when lots and lots of auditory CI has happened already. And in level 1 that kind of reading comes in Step 3 readings of stories (I developed Reading Option A for that) and not in novels so much where the vocabulary shot group is much wider, so asking them to read in Pobre Ana for ten minutes before January is just not something I would take the time to do. I wouldn’t waste that ten minutes. Maybe in the late winter. I do start Pauvre Anne right about now with my ones, but I only do it using cRD. This response is about as clear as mud, I know.
Thanks, I do understand and agree. I tried this in my classes this morning and they spent too much time on wanting to know vocabulary words. But I’m a little worried about how they will learn enough vocabulary for Spanish II if I am focusing on verb structures and cognates? When/how do they learn house vocabulary, etc., if I only can mix in a little into stories?
I am reading up on cRD –