tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post7244931641981361674..comments2024-03-27T08:54:51.538-04:00Comments on Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: Spanish 1 CurriculumSeñora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-2042787716908569452015-07-19T03:57:40.251-04:002015-07-19T03:57:40.251-04:00Thank you for your very detailed explanation to my...Thank you for your very detailed explanation to my question. I am most appreciative. I enjoy your blog very much, and thank you for sharing your work, progress and resources. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-63961027294281538242015-07-19T03:54:59.552-04:002015-07-19T03:54:59.552-04:00Thank you for your very detailed explanation to my...Thank you for your very detailed explanation to my questions. I really appreciate it. I also enjoy your blog very much, and thank you for sharing your work, progress and resources. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-41561025619566471112015-07-08T19:30:45.495-04:002015-07-08T19:30:45.495-04:00It is (still) in the process of being tweaked. The...It is (still) in the process of being tweaked. The challenge is that since I wrote the above initial matrix/curriculum and tested it for one year, we have hired two new young teachers that did not have TPRS experience, 1 with no teaching experience, PLUS I am no longer teaching Spanish 1. <br />My focus was to train the teachers on using TPRS and TCI first. I worked with one of the teachers this summer to rewrite the Spanish 3 curriculum and had hoped to work on Spanish 1 also, but time did not permit that. <br />After my busy months of June and July with trips and conferences, I will have a few short weeks that I hope to work on the curriculum for Spanish 1 on my own time.<br /><br />In teaching Sp1, the teachers start with a few days of TPR followed by TPRS stories with high frequency words. The two novels we use are Agentes Secretos, and Los Piratas del Caribe y el mapa secreto. We also include several MovieTalks (i.e. Alma using the materials I created in 2011) and other film shorts, and 2 chapters of Carol Gaab's Cuentame Mas text. <br />As far as when to introduce different forms of the verbs, we start with él/ella but use YO and TÚ from the start when asking questions and finding information about the students to help personalize the stories. ELLOS comes easily for the students and NOSOTROS tends to be one of the last forms they are exposed to simply because it is trickier to weave that into the conversations. We may be a bit old-school in that we don't introduce the past tenses until Spanish 2.<br />"Three sections of TPRS" meant that the words were sorted into 3 groups in an effort to make all Spanish 1 classes more uniform regardless of which teacher taught the class. However, if a word in Group C was used in a story when the teacher was focusing on the words in Group A, that is not a problem. <br />Does that make sense? I apologize if my explanations aren't as clear as I want them to be. :/<br />IMO, the most important thing when teaching the first level, is to focus on the high frequency words/verbs and only add in new material when you see that students are comfortably using those words. More is less. Sounds counterproductive but when the students have those High Frequency Words down solid, that strong foundation will move them forward more quickly (and comfortably) when new words and structures are introduced.<br />CynthiaSeñora Hitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-60218032889821737782015-07-08T18:51:55.416-04:002015-07-08T18:51:55.416-04:00Hi! I am intrigued by your curriculum map. I am ...Hi! I am intrigued by your curriculum map. I am curious if you did tweak or overhaul it at all?<br />Also: When you say that there are three sections of TPRS, what, exactly, do you mean? I am a newbie to TPRS/CI, and, I am struggling with how/when to introduce verbs, and, more specifically, all of the forms of a verb. I look forward to your reply. Thank you for your blog. It is a wonderful resource!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com