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After tying in the semifinals twice, CALMA became this year’s winner in my classroom. 6th champion in 7 years. #MarchMusicaMadness #spanishteacher #locurademarzoSemifinals today! #locurademarzo #marchmusicanadness #maniamusical #spanishteacherIn need of an activity for the period? Play an audiobook of a chapter and have students draw what is happening. After I explain necessary background info (in target language, of course), we listen to the audiobook version. Takes up whole period. @fluencymatters #fluencymatters #tprsbooks #ciworks #comprehensibleinput #elekeko #spanishteacherSearch for this blog post on SpanishPlans.org #FVR #TPRS #spanishteacherLet’s stop pretending that Spanish class is just about memorizing verb endings! Communication happens through being an exchange of comprehensible utterances and negotiation of meaning. We need to empower our students to build their fluency! Knowing verb forms does not a communicator! #CIworks #spanishteacher #conjugation #language #learnlanguagesAnother way to practice lyrics of songs: check out our tutorials of using #lyricstraining by searching on SpanishPlans.orgWorld Language SLO
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- I know lots of people who have larger vocabularies than me in English; doesn’t mean I’m not fluent. twitter.com/langdreamer/st… 1 hour ago
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- RT @d70profe: We have a winner!!! Calma by Pedro Capó is the 2019 March Música Madness Winner and will hang in the "rafters" of room 128 @H… 2 days ago
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CI Midwest Takeaways 2
It’s been about a busy month since CI Midwest took place but we finally have some time to post a few more of our thoughts and takeaways. Notes from Justin Slocum Bailey’s (@indwellinglang) session:
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Ditching the verb chart
A great blog post from French teacher @CecileLaine on changing your teaching strategies from verb charts and grammar based teaching to comprehensible input which will lead to performance based assessments where students actually use the language to communicate. By teaching … Continue reading
Engaging Food Input
One of my favorite units is teaching about food. You can probably tell from the number of resources I’ve shared dealing with Comida. Here are some great input that will have students remembering key phrases and vocabulary related to the … Continue reading
