Literacy Strategies for the WL Classroom
“Picking up word meanings through reading is ten times faster than intensive vocabulary instruction.” – Stephen Krashen We all know and understand that READING is a fundamental practice to acquire vocabulary in context and understand how target structures function....Spanish Time Capsule: A Letter to Myself
As the school year begins to wind down, an end of year project (not graded) was the “Time capsule letter”. It became a reflective “end of year” task that my students enjoyed working on, as they wrote to their “future” selves in 4...Let’s say “adiós” to conjugation charts
When I first began teaching, conjugation charts were part of what “I did” because I had learned Spanish grammar in a memorized way. I believed it was vital for students to copy down charts and change verbs from here to there, forward and backwards, practically in...2014: The year of “Why Not?”
2014 has begun and New Years Resolutions are all around us! However, have you taken a few minutes to reflect on your “educational” resolution? For this year, I plan to embrace the philosophy of “Why not?” and hope you will as well. Ultimately,...
