Agarra el Número - a World Language Reading Game!
I needed to get them re-reading the text - I just didn’t have time to keep creating new input! In a moment of inspiration, I created this re-reading race - I called it ¡Agarra el Número! It’s SO easy to play, low-prep, and has the bonus effect of reviewing numbers.
Top 3 Comprehensible Activities for Teaching about Las Posadas
Teach about Las Posadas with a slideshow story, a scavenger hunt, and a bingo game - all in comprehensible language even level 1 students can find successful!
How to Unlock the Power of Chat Mats to Support Conversation and Comprehension
I could see it in their eyes. Confusion, boredom, and a slight hint of ‘when does this class end’. My heart beat a too-fast rhythm as I struggled to ask questions my students would understand about Thanksgiving foods and activities. How would I get through this?
How the FLIPPED Running Dictation Saved My Formal Observation Crisis
What’s a FLIPPED Running Dictation?
Essentially, instead of putting clues or images around the room “scavenger-hunt style” for kids to dictate and translate, I put QUESTIONS about they text! They then had to search inside the text for the answers. Read more to see how I do it!
Top 3 Creative and Comprehensible Día de los Muertos Classroom Activities
What sounds better for Day of the Dead than a scavenger hunt, sugar skull reading project, and a bingo game - all in comprehensible language even level 1 students can find successful!
Need a no prep but engaging lesson? Try Card Talk
Have you ever shown up to school and realized you did have your lesson totally prepared? Your slides weren’t done, your copies weren’t made, you forgot the supplies at home? Teachers have busy lives with school, committees, clubs and sports, second jobs, family, and sometimes it happens. So I am here to provide you with an easy no prep activity that you can use over and over again: Card talk!
Sick? These Sub-Plans Will Save your Sanity
It’s 3 am and I can’t sleep. My throat burns, my head throbs and in 4 hours I’ll be trying to corral 25 eighth-graders with a box of Kleenex in one hand and a bottle of Advil in the other. Panic overwhelms me as I realize I have no sub plans ready! Do I call out? What if I’m still sick tomorrow?
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