I have a list of about 125 French – sorry, they’re only in French – verbs on the posters page of this site (click on the Resources page). It is under Useful Information at the bottom of that page. I would like to get extensive repetitions on each one of those verbs over my two year fluency program.
My idea is to give the list to one student in each class whose job all year will be to put a check next to any verb if I get enough repetitions on, as in really focus on, in class, so that we could say that the verb has been acquired.
Obviously, any verb that is a target structure in a Matava story will get lots of repetitions and be checked off in the course of one or two days. But, with this list, I can see which verbs are not being targeted.
I don’t want a verb wall next to a Word Wall. Too much information and the walls must not be cluttered. But, if I get a kid who is responsible enough to do this job over, actually, a two years period, I could get a periodic glimpse into how I’m doing hitting which verbs over the course of the first two years of instruction.
It will take the right kind of kid to do this job, but it is the only way I can figure out to keep track of how I’m teaching all those verbs for acquisition. Indeed, a lot of the words on the word wall are verbs already. It may work, it may not.