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Independent Spanish Reading
After different variations over the years, [FVR (Free Voluntary Reading], Lectura Libre, SSR (Silent Spanish Reading) among others] I’ve again renamed our reading time in class to ISR: Independent Spanish Reading. To kick things off this year, we read for … Continue reading
What students say about acquiring vocab through reading
I love asking for student feedback. So after our classes read El Escape Cubano or El Capibara Con Botas I asked for student feedback using google forms. Both of these books include many cognates, but I also wanted students to … Continue reading
Posted in reading, TPRS, Vocabulary
Tagged acquisition, audiobooks, reading, vocabulary, vocabulary acquisition
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FVR Reading Log
One new thing that I implemented this year with FVR was a reading log. On one side of the sheet of paper I have all the books listed and on the other side is a chart that students can use … Continue reading
FVR reading with audiobooks
If you are thinking to yourself, “Another post about FVR?!”, then I would suggest this book by the legend himself, Stephen Krashen, The Power of Reading. That book has focused my attention to reading as a way for students to … Continue reading
Posted in FVR, FVR, reading
Tagged audiobooks, FluencyMatters, FVR, grant, grant proposal, reading, SSR
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Creating your own FVR Booklets
If you’ve been following our posts this year, you know we have been focusing a lot lately on FVR (free voluntary reading) as a tool for acquisition in the language learning classroom. Today we are going to show you how … Continue reading
Making children’s books more comprehensible
As we talked about in our previous post, children’s book are usually not the best type of book for a second language classroom, although there is one that we do like. Most of the words are not comprehensible enough to … Continue reading
Posted in FVR, reading, TPRS
Tagged childrens book, FVR, lectura libre, reading, SSR
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Reading Passport
In 15 days, Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off in the United States. For those of you who have followed this blog, you know that I love to teach my students about the importance of perspective. I’ve also used the theme … Continue reading
Class Novel Tips
We asked students in a survey what helped them understand the class novel the most Here are some of the most descriptive answers:
What students are saying about FVR
In our most previous post, students shared how reading a novel in the target language made them feel, offering wonderful insight into the reading experience in the world language classroom. Another question we asked on a student survey, was for … Continue reading
The effects of Reading in WL class
If you want to see how effective reading can be in the world language classroom, just ask your students. As our year is winding down, I had students fill out a google survey to get some of their feedback and … Continue reading
Posted in reading, TPRS
Tagged class novel, feedback, reading, Spanish novels, student survey
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