Category Archives: Reading

Mixing It Up with Movies

One way that I have been mixing it up this year is by playing short segments of popular movies. I do this is because a lot of movies contain not only cultural things that we can talk about in the … Continue reading

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Read Alouds are More than Just Reading

I have always thought that read-alouds were a good idea, but until I saw Jason Fritze give his Reading Rainbow presentation at NTPRS 2005, I never fully made a huge effort. I think it was because I didn’t realize their … Continue reading

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Lomb Kató

One of the greatest DVD’s I ever saw on second language acquisition was the Krashen Seminar. It was produced by Blaine Ray in the late 90′s and on the DVD Krashen, in a very light and informative manner, outlines how … Continue reading

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Krashen Lights a Fire on Reading

Every time I read Krashen or watch an excerpt of a seminar he has given, I just get so excited about the posibilities of reading and its impact on language acquisition. I keep asking, “How can we get interesting meaningful … Continue reading

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Joe on tprs

Here is a document that Joe Neilson made on some basic ideas of tprs. http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd5rnpcc_180fg5xp3db

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Shorter Reading Approach to Novels

I must confess that I have struggled with how to get the novels in and at times I wonder why the kids think it is so boring. Well, I have asked around about how people do it and tried a … Continue reading

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Backward Planning, a missing element that was needed

This year I have been doing a lot more backward planning from the novels and it has really boosted my stories. I have basically been picking out some of the important phrases from the novel and putting it into the … Continue reading

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Are we exposing our students to what they need?

I have been reading a book by Frank Smith entitled, Reading FAQ. I am going to add it to my books list, but I thought I would give a brief excerpt here. I having been thinking about the idea that … Continue reading

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Keeping it Personalized

I have discovered that it is essential that a language is personalized. As soon as I start talking about something that they are not interested in I begin to loose them. When I add a new detail, it sparks the … Continue reading

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Following the rules

I realized today that rules are brilliant when you enforce them. It can be easy for teachers to just let it slide, but today in class I really enforced the rules. When I did this, it wasn’t in a harsh … Continue reading

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