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Tag Archives: CI
Teaching El Cucuy: A Fun Approach for Spanish Learners
Looking for a novel way to teach about the legend of El Cucuy, but don’t want to do the traditional activities of CI? I had to think about how I could get my students to be familiar with the story … Continue reading
Rally Re-order
The following is a guest post that I invited Rich Madel to write after he mentioned this activity on twitter. All world language teachers focused on providing rich, compelling, and comprehensible input to their students know the struggle: How can … Continue reading
CI during MMM
What I love about March Music Madness is that students get a peek into what music is popular in other parts of the world. It’s a way to connect our students to the language. Who doesn’t love music? When you … Continue reading
Special Person Interviews
This is a guest post from Christy of Christy’s Classroom who tells how she incorporates the Special Person Interviews in her Spanish class. This quarter in my middle school classes I have been incorporating special person interviews. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in TPRS
Tagged CI, comprehensible input, special person interview, student interview
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Online timer as CI
I was recently doing a write/pass/draw activity where I wanted to use a timer to give the class a limit. I usually just use google timer or the regular classroom timer where it counts down on a clock. Previously, I … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Lesson Plans, Resources
Tagged challenges, CI, classroom timer, Comprensible Input, games, timer
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Story with 5 Phrases
I was going through some old blog posts the other day and happened upon one that reminded me of an activity that I learned from Carol Gaab at the first annual Comprehensible Midwest. I ended up using it as a … Continue reading
Tone Reading
The following is another CI activity that you can use with a chapter reading or with random sentences using a targeted structure. This activity gets in extra reps of the phrases in an engaging and fun manner, which is really … Continue reading
Posted in reading, TPRS
Tagged activity, CI, Emoji, Emotions, reading, reading strategies, Tone Reading
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Sorting Activity for Class Reading
If you are reading a novel in your world language class, this activity is a great way to make sure students take away the most important events. Similar to a Yellow Summary, where students highlight the most important, this activity … Continue reading
Posted in reading, Storytelling, TPRS
Tagged CI, Esperanza, novels, reading, sorting
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Verb Shout: TPRS Reading Activity
We just finished up our La Llorona Unit, which was our first story in Spanish 1 that we introduced in the past tense. Our prior stories this year were all present tense. Our Llorona story featured the background of the … Continue reading
Redefining Boot Verbs with CI
We’ve all heard of “boot verbs” to teach the conjugations forms of stem-changing verbs. Take the i–>ie stem changing verb querer: Cute, right? Well, sure….If you want your students to only be able to memorize verb forms without actually acquiring … Continue reading
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