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Martina began experimenting and sharing her journey onThe Comprehensible Classroom blog. Her clear explanations and step-by-step tutorials made Teaching for Acquisition a real possibility for language teachers around the world. When Martina left the classroom to be a full-time mom to her growing fam...
Bracket-style competitions are an effective activity for language classes because they provide high-interest, communicatively embedded comprehensible input. View Blog Join our newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and get instant access to 150+ free resources for language teachers. Subscribe Today Resou...
More from the blog View Blog Activities Reading activities Games Novels The Unfair Game Oct 28, 2015 The Unfair Game is a totally unfair twist on Jeopardy that your students will LOVE to hate! Learn how to play and find sample game boards in this post. Activities Reading activiti...
An excellent speaking activity (or assessment) for your students is to have them re-tell a familiar story using only picture cues. (This is not a revolutionary idea for most of you!) Today, for example, my Spanish II students read a new story in pairs or groups of three. At the botto...
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Using The Somos Curriculum? Learn about standards-based assessment and how assessments in The Somos Curriculum should be used and graded. View Blog Join our newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and get instant access to 150+ free resources for language teachers. Subscribe Today Resources...
Set up will look different for each station, depending on the task that students need to complete and the furniture that you have available. In my classroom, we had small tables. I would push together two tables for each station and arrange desks around it. An exception would be when I ...
classroom, I say “A-B-C”, Students respond, “CH-CH-CH”, I say “Español”, and students say, “¡Olé!”. However, this is about as boring as it gets. Often, teachers use creative things like shouting “Danger!” (in the TL) and students have to duck; or the teacher ...
Personally, I fell into the first two categories. I saw Día de Muertos as something to study that felt seasonal and connected to what many of my students were celebrating, and they always thought that the imagery was so cool. I felt like it was an opportunity for me to capture their in...