Is he tall or microscopic? Where does he live? Why is he so sad? Whether you’re working on a One…
Foreign Language Methods Class: CI Demo
Every year I’m delighted to go back to my Alma Mater, the University of Nevada, Reno, and “guest lecture” at…
Mafia Hacks for Level 1
If you haven’t played Mafia with your classes yet, don’t wait any longer! The kiddos love Mafia because it’s really…
Spanish 4’s Celebración de conocimiento: Episodio 1
Good morning! I wrote about Spanish 1’s first Celebration of Knowledge aka Test last week and there were questions about…
Spanish 1’s first “Celebration of Knowledge” AKA Test
We don’t have tests here in my class. We have Celebrations of Knowledge. (Pop Quizzes are call Surprise Parties…because, why…
The life-changing, no stress, no grading, no sweat way to assign speaking, listening and reading grades.
Wow. With a title like that, this better be good… I hate grading. Like really hate it. I hate piles…
Telenovelas as curriculum
In my Spanish 4 classes, we’re watching, discussing, loving and eating up every dramatic and suspense filled moment of Gran…
3-D Guess Who? A Clothing Input Game
I love thinking of ways to disguise Comprehensible Input as a game. I load them up for as long as…
World Cup- AKA Community Building Extravaganza
You guys! This is so fun! This might be my favorite (and newest!) tradition! I’m typing this exhausted, sore and…
True confessions: I don’t really like teaching a whole class novel
For years and years I taught whole class novels. I taught them because I thought I had to…I mean reading is soooooo…
