tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58987298980735811542024-03-17T06:55:44.992-04:00Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible InputReading, Storytelling, and Ideas for Technology use in the Target Language. Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.comBlogger432125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-82341980627096286252022-11-21T21:57:00.000-05:002022-11-21T21:57:07.564-05:00How do I entice thee to read, let me count the ways<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Whenever possible, I pack as much reading into my daily lessons as possible. This requires me to find different ways to present the readings, ways that entice the students to read a text and to understand what they are reading and not simply seeing the words on a document without attaching meaning.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Would you believe that students actually LIKE reading, in a second language, when you offer them different ways to read or different tasks that can only be completed successfully if they read the text? It's true, although you may drain your brain thinking of authentic, varied ways of doing this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvzrI-A2rW791e3Jqc7981ZPXP8CQK4Rd0F87dloJ0twfZ34fqA6NPwDMkZZC2FoSQyMzVJYyfIOgVUyeflaQuxukfQCHJZBoq4aV5bge8qZLaV0s2pr6yoBFXjTswkHWqLmzpFg6U-bpDcd9r-hrbzATCy38cH0whm07YxjNYYfPQIGLcHd4EeQgnA/s898/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.27.12%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="898" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvzrI-A2rW791e3Jqc7981ZPXP8CQK4Rd0F87dloJ0twfZ34fqA6NPwDMkZZC2FoSQyMzVJYyfIOgVUyeflaQuxukfQCHJZBoq4aV5bge8qZLaV0s2pr6yoBFXjTswkHWqLmzpFg6U-bpDcd9r-hrbzATCy38cH0whm07YxjNYYfPQIGLcHd4EeQgnA/w400-h219/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.27.12%20PM.png" width="400" /></a>I use the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Storybuilder-bundle-Interactive-stories-for-Intermediate-Spanish-learners-6279726?st=ddeae779192969f529dcbb6937b577a1" target="_blank">Storybuilders from the Comprehensible Classroom</a> in various ways with my students. I like adding the Storybuilders to my lessons because, first of all, the stories are interesting, unrealistically fun, and totally unpredictable. That alone creates interest for the students. Secondly, the students ARE READING!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last school year I tried a new game with the students that was linked to the Storybuilder the Comprehensible Classroom from SOMOS 1 Unit 7, Canela y su abuela. The object is for students to read the story, following the story path that I have chosen, and then work together to answer questions about the story.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are the steps:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Give your students access to the storybuilder. I link it to the class Schoology page so they can read it, but not make any changes to the google slide presentation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiUR6lYLZRaQ7lkXvp7r9riF6cZ6N_FXr-uGRXllxfhCnxTPU7YMp7hoZD0DwFSX6I-0sjJsNkhKpbFadz8Gw0TRaKRI-MwDAQfvEc5T1dpciPMTNkT8R-eFxJxyK7BtIKSrlnqFZWQ9ZInuOhq5QiPN1wwWwx6gDk-TlcU6uRYBL3cU3qNtEovCgAA/s904/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.34.29%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="904" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiUR6lYLZRaQ7lkXvp7r9riF6cZ6N_FXr-uGRXllxfhCnxTPU7YMp7hoZD0DwFSX6I-0sjJsNkhKpbFadz8Gw0TRaKRI-MwDAQfvEc5T1dpciPMTNkT8R-eFxJxyK7BtIKSrlnqFZWQ9ZInuOhq5QiPN1wwWwx6gDk-TlcU6uRYBL3cU3qNtEovCgAA/w400-h221/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.34.29%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Give students the Story Path that they need to follow. (If you're unfamiliar with Storybuilders, they are similar to choose your own adventure books. The students read the story and after a few slides they are presented with a choice. They continue to read and make choices to which direction the story goes until it comes to a logical, or illogical, end. Then the slide returns them to the beginning of the story and they create a new story by making different choices throughout the story.)<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Put students in groups of 3 or 4 and have them read the story following the story path that you have designated.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. After reading, students close their computer. Each student needs a mini-whiteboard, a marker, and an eraser.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAreU7GCbg0Xfv0iskd5dcPqmEhUpxu9KwjZAp5KbKp0pa5ge6n3vLUKyA_1oY0-2zn1U94Z14Pz3wVL_CYY_u4XZCPGs4kUAJYd7KRQIQJSaPnn5q-s6ly8_8oo4rQReEHi3IC9i-Bk-Oy1okyZd4kCEOTL7D6a03DAhqosF-kmOwWV7XCL_Nfrnuiw/s892/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.39.42%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="892" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAreU7GCbg0Xfv0iskd5dcPqmEhUpxu9KwjZAp5KbKp0pa5ge6n3vLUKyA_1oY0-2zn1U94Z14Pz3wVL_CYY_u4XZCPGs4kUAJYd7KRQIQJSaPnn5q-s6ly8_8oo4rQReEHi3IC9i-Bk-Oy1okyZd4kCEOTL7D6a03DAhqosF-kmOwWV7XCL_Nfrnuiw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.39.42%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Project the first question on the board that relates to the story and story path they just read. The students quietly discuss the answer in their groups and then EACH STUDENT has to write the answer on their mini-whiteboard. It is NOT a race, but rather you want the students to take the time to write their answer and check the answers of the other members of their group.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Students hold up their mini-whiteboards. Project the slide with the answer. The group earns 1 point if each member of their group answered the question correctly.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I mix up the questions so there are cierto/falso questions, short answer questions, translations, and fill in the blanks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are a few of the benefits of this activity:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Z6HTEPKZfpfZ9nMvE-hihtbmeFZfMSJveZ7wx6kC5GkFMrj_hMVJ1H8mdjrZ4b55Y_bM19GKhEqpbtw2L6Ubhvw_o1qfCiW9FJMHUc7ce5rRuHFJKUg_NmcqLB2l3Wnkl9hjCs0Lq-owNl7DwyJFpwGCuaavefU31pTB0JikgpMR3qX8T9Uf-jjzDg/s875/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.52.38%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="875" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Z6HTEPKZfpfZ9nMvE-hihtbmeFZfMSJveZ7wx6kC5GkFMrj_hMVJ1H8mdjrZ4b55Y_bM19GKhEqpbtw2L6Ubhvw_o1qfCiW9FJMHUc7ce5rRuHFJKUg_NmcqLB2l3Wnkl9hjCs0Lq-owNl7DwyJFpwGCuaavefU31pTB0JikgpMR3qX8T9Uf-jjzDg/w640-h340/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%209.52.38%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Click on the link to see/access <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Nf5OHflbDEeyHyQ_01bOVC7WljAbTCy2hf9so_4zfZ4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">my google slide presentation for this Storybuilder</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please note: I have expressed written consent from Martina Bex at <a href="https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/" target="_blank">the Comprehensible Classroom</a> to share this activity with information related to the story from the Storybuilder.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p></div>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-39204631210668588202022-05-08T11:07:00.002-04:002022-05-08T11:07:29.804-04:00Scavenger Hunt - Get students up and moving!<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUu_5swf8E1g5TUoiNT8hHDQ8KKCqUgzFYWQGeEqeO1naoN9oK-yncx4jO5iYQtFeb7epmLHekvyVZrSqDbCktz2eEOZ1f2Ts8M0xsDQINgP2UuaUll9z2gSO5YCnhrqF5KT3G8-iBvRi2QWl2Xu_zNj1jmkYK6XzWBz9eIXWG8PSMV2MS_RDgQM9F9w/s720/marcos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="720" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUu_5swf8E1g5TUoiNT8hHDQ8KKCqUgzFYWQGeEqeO1naoN9oK-yncx4jO5iYQtFeb7epmLHekvyVZrSqDbCktz2eEOZ1f2Ts8M0xsDQINgP2UuaUll9z2gSO5YCnhrqF5KT3G8-iBvRi2QWl2Xu_zNj1jmkYK6XzWBz9eIXWG8PSMV2MS_RDgQM9F9w/s320/marcos.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">May seemed like the perfect month to create an activity for my students that would require them to get up and moving in order to read and answer questions. I wrote a basic story, <i>Marcos se quejó mucho</i> and then created the scavenger hunt based on the story. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The overarching purpose was to familiarize the students with the verb QUEJARSE before watching the Sr. Wooly video, <i>La Dentista</i>. The previous day I had used PQA (personalized questions and answers) based on what students, teachers, and others complain about and then asked students if they complained about various things the previous day. That class conversation paved the way for this activity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The story is about a boy that goes to school on Friday and complained about quizzes, a teacher not being in the room to get help, an overdue library fine, and other reasons. Each place that Marcos went in the story and complained are the locations that I posted questions that students had to answer. Some questions were directly related to the story and others could be answered without the story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Below are the instructions I handed out to the students.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Scavenger hunt</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Goal</b>:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">a. to answer the 8 questions correctly in order to...</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">b. ...get the words for the secret questions, and</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">c. to unscramble the words to make a question</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">It should take you <u>15 minutes or less</u> to find the 8 questions throughout the school, answer the questions, and return to the room to get the last WORD for the question.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">1. Read the story <i>Marcos se quejó mucho</i>. (The locations that Marcos goes to in the story is where you will find the questions!)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">He complains about 8 different things in the school. In order to know where to find the 8 posted questions, read the story and go to the 8 different places mentioned in the story.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">2. Answer the questions posted throughout the school. Write the words that are written in CAPITAL LETTERS after the correct answer to the question. (Remember: you need to answer the questions correctly in order to have the correct 8 words/phrases to unscramble and form a question!)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">3. After you have the 8 different words/phrases, <u>return to Profe Hitz's class</u> to get the 9th word.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">4. With your partner/group, unscramble the question and hand it to Profe Hitz.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The two screenshots below are from the activity. The first one has a question NOT based directly on the story. The second screenshot is a question based directly on the story about Marcos.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucurYddMdJT6AXZfSf9u7zl78XEyxPxxUJL-sz-lDj3LTsaXuYk7ewFOH5KabpHHj90DfvVh_oqgAA2999n3cKLUol6ev7vqxbTbyEw8XAtFqXJl5cax-jbeNfcp2erPSFpWtYn3S47vSfXfMMKPPkbF4lV1xbffA3cE2c7nzfJkzgvmYYpI97ARVKw/s746/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-08%20at%2010.49.03%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="One of the questions NOT directly based on the story" border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="746" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucurYddMdJT6AXZfSf9u7zl78XEyxPxxUJL-sz-lDj3LTsaXuYk7ewFOH5KabpHHj90DfvVh_oqgAA2999n3cKLUol6ev7vqxbTbyEw8XAtFqXJl5cax-jbeNfcp2erPSFpWtYn3S47vSfXfMMKPPkbF4lV1xbffA3cE2c7nzfJkzgvmYYpI97ARVKw/w640-h398/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-08%20at%2010.49.03%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibi61lAR1bXCwKORqx5SdbmVsQy1LdHA6SFvJyleX1n4VhtSdHpeo06o1eELfJHdTrQEAjpZGqTndI_wRDAB6YGNfI5gbV29reN39cLuW7KnbvN6_JTD3qwpzxMb-X6DJEv49825l2GKOJK5PY2b-JIllCqWOvVvQuffLeaD2Yt07QGT0yMFfG0alxw/s704/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-08%20at%2010.48.45%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="704" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibi61lAR1bXCwKORqx5SdbmVsQy1LdHA6SFvJyleX1n4VhtSdHpeo06o1eELfJHdTrQEAjpZGqTndI_wRDAB6YGNfI5gbV29reN39cLuW7KnbvN6_JTD3qwpzxMb-X6DJEv49825l2GKOJK5PY2b-JIllCqWOvVvQuffLeaD2Yt07QGT0yMFfG0alxw/w640-h362/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-08%20at%2010.48.45%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Ideas to make this activity run smoothly:</span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Tell the students the expectations for their behavior in the hall. Email your colleagues and let them know your students will be in the halls and at what time they will be moving throughout the school.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before class, I highlighted one of the 8 places on 8 different papers so students didn't all have the same starting point. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. I put students in pairs or groups of 3. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. I distributed the paper to group 1, which had "biblioteca" highlighted because it is the first location that Marcos visits. I told them to leave the classroom and go to the location highlighted on the paper and then continue with the story in that order.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">I gave group 2 their paper, with "la clase de Inglés" highlighted and told them to start there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">For my class of 29, after I had given papers to the first 8 groups, I then gave group 9 a paper that started them at the library. It helped keep groups from all going to the same place to start. If I had extended the story to 2 or 3 more locations, that would have been even better!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. I wrote the last word "PREFIERES" on the board after all groups had left my room. When they returned to my classroom, I directed them to look at the board and start unscrambling the words to make a question.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>The story is pictured below. The directions and accompanying questions are available <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TyuqR8Jd-znhC4A4Xb7-bdGB2wQY67YOrJ3dTnQ4TNg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>. (Hopefully the link works for you!)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAanbL_6r4teRx0nuhMwgVMB6mizl0_Nb2LIsrBgwEdV4JRzDp2nxhvHBGRL71mA0N2oqAiMJbQYUx7x5fEnluXaaPjtRCFyT0sw5vcAG_KySii6y8NdIQjje0AFuDIgaTNTNXPwT-Ir87vdZfZqIn23ZZ_AOLtWG1_vH1t8-iaIhXv_ysVFwBmAs0Qg/s1056/Untitled%20presentation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAanbL_6r4teRx0nuhMwgVMB6mizl0_Nb2LIsrBgwEdV4JRzDp2nxhvHBGRL71mA0N2oqAiMJbQYUx7x5fEnluXaaPjtRCFyT0sw5vcAG_KySii6y8NdIQjje0AFuDIgaTNTNXPwT-Ir87vdZfZqIn23ZZ_AOLtWG1_vH1t8-iaIhXv_ysVFwBmAs0Qg/w494-h640/Untitled%20presentation.png" width="494" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-40365559882923136722021-12-20T15:02:00.012-05:002021-12-20T15:06:29.994-05:00The 'Simple, Almost Zero Prep, Get Me to Christmas Break' Game <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbiOn5hH-pRK9txyiGv5aNCCVqF4_sJ9wWz_nppkAEz9TaWjPQrs4ZTva6EmFXXWU5VwKoIh4ZmBW_YmQByBPDZXtfCRQUiNJPZIOy0G53FYxWrqDDTzQy54wjAtKpMF89xeqBkmGrBzE8NLTEkKbCCPlxGKFNVpHwzHiBsVGGosgbBaYLS0-nCBRMoQ=s792" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="792" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbiOn5hH-pRK9txyiGv5aNCCVqF4_sJ9wWz_nppkAEz9TaWjPQrs4ZTva6EmFXXWU5VwKoIh4ZmBW_YmQByBPDZXtfCRQUiNJPZIOy0G53FYxWrqDDTzQy54wjAtKpMF89xeqBkmGrBzE8NLTEkKbCCPlxGKFNVpHwzHiBsVGGosgbBaYLS0-nCBRMoQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Time's a wasting - no time for blah blah blah to introduce the post! </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are the directions for a 1% Prep Game for those still working this week before Christmas break!</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Teacher Prep:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Think of a category - I chose Christmas items.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Write a list of 5-10 words related to the list. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Materials Needed:</b></span> teacher's list of 5-10 words, mini-white boards, markers, erasers (or whatever you use instead of mini-white boards).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Object of the Game:</b></span> To earn the most points by writing answers that will match the answers of many other people in the game.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Game:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Give each student a mini-white board, marker, and eraser.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Have students sit in a large circle (reason for this - so they can NOT easily see the answers of those around them).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. The teacher says the first word on the list (mine was "árbol de Navidad"). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Students write one word (One item/color/adjective, etc. It could be more than one word, i.e. bathing suit in Spanish is traje de baño - 3 words but it is one object).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Allow time for students to write an answer IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE. Countdown from 10-1 and everyone holds us their answer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">If seated in a circle, it is easy for all students to see everyone's answers when they reveal their answers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Students earn one point for each time their word is written but only if at least one other person matches their word.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Example A: you write luces and 2 other people write luces, each person that wrote luces earns 3 points, because a total of 3 people wrote the answer.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Example B: you write decoraciones and nobody else writes that; you get ZERO points.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Suggestions/Considerations:</b></span><p></p></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">1) Students can only write words IN THE TARGET ANSWERS. If they don't know the word in the TL that they want to write, they have to think of another one. They can't ask the teacher or other students for help!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">2) I told students that they could NOT use any of the words I used in each round in subsequent rounds. In my example, they could not use árbol or Navidad in their answers for the first round or any other rounds.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">3) No use of proper nouns</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">4) Keep the game short or they will figure out a way to ruin it - most likely. Example, one student might blurt out, let's only answer in colors, or let's always write "regalos". If that happens, shut it down (meaning tell students the game can't and won't be played that way) and, if needed, end the game!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">5) Include a few words in the game that don't have obvious answers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Words I used: árbol de Navidad, Papá Noel, estrella, nieve, invierno, Rudolph, regalos, rojo, galletas, duende (Christmas tree, Santa Claus, star, snow, winter, Rudolph, gifts, red, cookies, elf). </span></div>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-44987574516240286152021-09-24T18:36:00.003-04:002021-09-24T20:40:29.833-04:00The Mayan Number System <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4o0Q_3sJ78nAFgAV1am3rQMgs3qmOGfHZSqjLT4VZHvBPmaqg-XMlSF_LTNcy2I7zPscWvPEPafXcUhjgNVHPQKstxFjdmnIKGmFR399K2Fbj8pPORea1KT0LHiyFyzyhaO8rJK-Yeub1/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4o0Q_3sJ78nAFgAV1am3rQMgs3qmOGfHZSqjLT4VZHvBPmaqg-XMlSF_LTNcy2I7zPscWvPEPafXcUhjgNVHPQKstxFjdmnIKGmFR399K2Fbj8pPORea1KT0LHiyFyzyhaO8rJK-Yeub1/w400-h309/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Over the years I have found that most of my Spanish students, in all levels, benefit from class activities that involve numbers. Usually what works best, is when they are focused on something other than the numbers! How ironic, right?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">In Spanish 4 (students that have had a total of 300 hours in Spanish levels 1-3), I start the semester with a unit called Reconnecting to Spanish. Then the second unit is based on the novel <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/esperanza-reader/" target="_blank">Esperanza, by Fluency Matters</a>, published in 2011. There are many excellent new novels that have been published since then, but the story of Esperanza is very engaging, based on a true story, and very comprehensible for the first book students read in the semester. Some students may have skipped a full school year of having languages, so this book shows them they can successfully read an interesting book in Spanish within weeks of returning to Spanish class!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Since I've been using this books for semesters each year since a while, probably since 2012, I have a long list of additional texts and activities to use. I also have the <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/esperanza-premium-teachers-guide-download/" target="_blank">teacher's guide from Fluency Matters</a> which has supplemental texts about the Mayans. Last spring was the first that I included the FREE lessons and activities in Fluency Matter's <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/prep-4-success-units/" target="_blank">Prep4Success unit for Esperanza</a>, materials designed to be used before starting the novel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">However, when I came across a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5LnGJvAQQ" target="_blank">YouTube video</a> by Andrew Snider, of Read to Speak Spanish, I knew it would be a perfect fit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><b>The Benefits of the Activity:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: large;">(1) review numbers, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">(2) teach about the Mayan number system (cross-curricular!), and </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">(3) have students listen to 10+ minutes of a comprehensible explanation in Spanish.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">(4) high student engagement</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">(5) a perfect activity for a Friday AFTER reading a chapter of Esperanza 😊</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><b>Materials Needed:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">The Mayan number system is based on sea shells (conches), round circles, and rectangles. You can use large paperclips for the seashells (see the picture on the google slides), bingo chips for the circles, and popsicle sticks for the rectangles. (I wanted pom poms for the circles but, alas, the Dollar Tree didn't have any.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><b>Directions:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">These are the directions on the first Google Slide. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvmg-rGViGsWDouhXS_gwQsFeOEDqLUVnSKs-Z023wRxpp35Xk5rm8HS2Ht_QSXspukX3BPSYKG6GEqkookRmdoroSNIBFz_8IRAlGj1aJ4k9i_4YOLpt7eJaZSyx93byWgVPu_6-TJ24/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvmg-rGViGsWDouhXS_gwQsFeOEDqLUVnSKs-Z023wRxpp35Xk5rm8HS2Ht_QSXspukX3BPSYKG6GEqkookRmdoroSNIBFz_8IRAlGj1aJ4k9i_4YOLpt7eJaZSyx93byWgVPu_6-TJ24/w640-h494/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25283%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><b>The Video</b>:</span><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Righteous;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ia5LnGJvAQQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>https://youtu.be/Ia5LnGJvAQQ</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Andrew Snider is the creator of the <a href="https://readtospeakspanish.com" target="_blank">Read to Speak Spanish</a> website. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: large;">He also has a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC41igIHl9b0sOkutyxqAyNA/videos" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, which is where I found this video on the Mayan number system. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Franklin"; font-size: large;">It's over ten minutes BUT I predict your students will be focused on the explanation and demonstration of the number system, that those 10 minutes will fly by! At one point when he went from describing how to form 1-19, to how 20 was formed, I had several students saying "what???". At that point, one of my students asked if she could help explain it and I said sure! Why doesn't the principal observe when students take ownership of the lesson and volunteer to help others? LOL </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">BTW - If you need a comprehensible story for your students to watch on a day you will be out of school, I suggest using one of his stories on YouTube. He speaks clearly and slow enough for language learners to follow along, plus they're unpredictable and supported with drawings and images. It's a little gold mine of possibilities!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">There will be some students that catch on to forming the numbers in a snap! I wanted photos of the students forming the numbers but they were so quick that each time I grabbed my phone they were already finished. The pictures I got were not the best. Oh well...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Below are a few images of the Google Slide presentation. If you are interested in using the presentation that I made, you can find it </span><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JM2WbeMlNHNtbWmI9htPaJ824i7CJ4qcapD8bbra-0I/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">. You'll need to make your own copy, and then you are free to make any changes to the presentation to best fit your classroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Practice slides - students verbally guess the numbers. First I showed a slide without the numbers written on them (only the symbols) and then clicked to the next slide after they guessed the number for ADDITIONAL INPUT on Spanish numbers. As you point out how much each symbol is worth, count aloud and/or have the students count together when adding up the numbers!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDs0slBEPMiJ9zqiuh4P2lfoVDFeFZXV7vG_gWIh7fsg_1fjY7O0oSjT-dJc9bIhy0MFksJGOoJKW6JzwQidXutu8weL_fPRghkgSoJ6fhNBiz72QiG_w5WUt_YgPsEmzTYN79pyP26jg/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25285%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDs0slBEPMiJ9zqiuh4P2lfoVDFeFZXV7vG_gWIh7fsg_1fjY7O0oSjT-dJc9bIhy0MFksJGOoJKW6JzwQidXutu8weL_fPRghkgSoJ6fhNBiz72QiG_w5WUt_YgPsEmzTYN79pyP26jg/w400-h309/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25285%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4bGSOzge8GYyvwDgSqGvkPKh-mC_mQJE6KJdCKTHNDRe8ZiXYBrJ02lR7ZPCD1xYCQPmlSntKBJCj1Vj5VOf7FBopeYsmHX6iOigcoetEShokl_yJGJljQFYb-_TDxw3_MFcjVIE90iPt/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25284%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4bGSOzge8GYyvwDgSqGvkPKh-mC_mQJE6KJdCKTHNDRe8ZiXYBrJ02lR7ZPCD1xYCQPmlSntKBJCj1Vj5VOf7FBopeYsmHX6iOigcoetEShokl_yJGJljQFYb-_TDxw3_MFcjVIE90iPt/w400-h309/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25284%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">The orange slides are the ones that students used the manipulatives. Before the slide below, there is a slide that only has the number "90". To check their work, I clicked to the next slide and explained as necessary.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRnEYlaxjRHgIL3bGLfd-yZ06NWSVyPnBWHZdwC7lFOPz73MhcPGvogwKQ650EtxUtGuk13_b1NhKl6vFXaBScBfae9s0MP_g5oKT0hoUHeimykqTIoMa3Qk6Zv-KlNQRuxvveqRY9GGP/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25286%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRnEYlaxjRHgIL3bGLfd-yZ06NWSVyPnBWHZdwC7lFOPz73MhcPGvogwKQ650EtxUtGuk13_b1NhKl6vFXaBScBfae9s0MP_g5oKT0hoUHeimykqTIoMa3Qk6Zv-KlNQRuxvveqRY9GGP/w400-h309/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25286%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOU-DwflEKjrwBXLwpMTk8JvKlRGIVgb1yWZ0Q9rFAe2PR-fTJYZBeM7pxTa89j1B3goUyz_5gvetSnFUgnCpUagl-BKqoLkUMOgxNXcpXpaKoLVp8sh1tWnug9USP3wGfuCzkUCQlOChn/s1056/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25287%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOU-DwflEKjrwBXLwpMTk8JvKlRGIVgb1yWZ0Q9rFAe2PR-fTJYZBeM7pxTa89j1B3goUyz_5gvetSnFUgnCpUagl-BKqoLkUMOgxNXcpXpaKoLVp8sh1tWnug9USP3wGfuCzkUCQlOChn/w400-h309/Usando+nu%25CC%2581meros+mayas+%25287%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">Have fun with the activity! 🙂</span></div></div><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-76180895160357042692021-05-12T22:48:00.008-04:002021-05-17T06:13:56.839-04:00DECISIONES - A Strategic Game for the World Language Classroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5xfDu65bU-FPfoMc6SjiyBVmPdS0sq18EkptmyP_SGFud7OnTFwqH_4LlTRmc12YIX6Sw-QkywS1KezdnUlURE7JxIaVxmWtMO80hsrrC3ONgRJuoBU7L6hLvSEPlhady3BEZ1ykN8Gb/s960/Untitled+presentation+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5xfDu65bU-FPfoMc6SjiyBVmPdS0sq18EkptmyP_SGFud7OnTFwqH_4LlTRmc12YIX6Sw-QkywS1KezdnUlURE7JxIaVxmWtMO80hsrrC3ONgRJuoBU7L6hLvSEPlhady3BEZ1ykN8Gb/w384-h216/Untitled+presentation+%25282%2529.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">Here is an <i>end of the school year, yes we made it through the crazy pandemic hybrid schedules</i> game for you. It is a great way to review any type of text - a short story, legend, several chapters in a novel, news articles, - anything with enough text to be able to write 14 comprehension questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">I test drove this new game with three classes and made changes after the first two classes to improve the game and rules. Now, it is ready for you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">Students will like the game because they decide what they will do with the points they earn, but it is mixed with an element of uncertainty. You'll like it because the students want to answer correctly in order to have that control over their points. So here you go...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: large;">DECISIONES</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Libre Franklin;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Materials Needed:</span></b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <u>Deck of Cards.</u> I use Spanish cards, Baraja Española. They're authentic, the face cards have the number values written on them. If you use a regular deck, I suggest taking out the face cards so keep it simple.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <u>Mini-White Boards, Markers, Erasers</u>, or something for students to write their team's answers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <u>14 Decisiones Cards</u> (5 Regalen, 5 Quédense, 3 Dupliquen, and 1 Regalen los puntos negativos)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <u>14 Questions</u> for the game based on a text you have read with your students</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Goal of the Game</b>:</span> </span>Earn more points than the other teams</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><b>Instructions/Rules:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">1. Put the students into three groups. If you have large classes, you can have 4 or 5 teams, but it will take longer to complete the game. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">2. Students need to sit with their teams to be able to discuss the answers to the questions. Give each group a set of the </span><span style="font-family: Righteous;">DECISIONES</span> <span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">cards - 14 cards per set. Each team also should have 1 mini-white board, a marker, and eraser</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">*I copied each set in a different color to make it easier to keep track of the cards each team has used.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">3. Read the first question. Team members will quietly discuss the answer and one team member will write the answer on the mini-white board. This is NOT a race. Allow sufficient time for students to discuss and write their answer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">4. Tell teams to hold up their answers. Teams that answer correctly will have the chance to earn points or to gift points. Teams that answer correctly will lose a </span><span style="font-family: Righteous;">DECISIONES</span><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"> card.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">When Teams Answer Correctly</span>:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">5. If several or all teams answer correctly, start with the first team and pull a card from the top of the deck. Students look at the number on the card and decide which of the following actions they want to do:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHk-R6ZZTf84AVLzIPJ4OdsjU60kVVe38NewRENMfGOxNJqORekNHaAPxxKzJHW1BTC1uDXDNWOifA2yDUVdPCO-PFP4JdQXQTE6Z7e7frtGNNMFSGxxyuICef_gDxGZ9I_I7XH5jKuXg/s2048/decisiones.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHk-R6ZZTf84AVLzIPJ4OdsjU60kVVe38NewRENMfGOxNJqORekNHaAPxxKzJHW1BTC1uDXDNWOifA2yDUVdPCO-PFP4JdQXQTE6Z7e7frtGNNMFSGxxyuICef_gDxGZ9I_I7XH5jKuXg/s320/decisiones.jpg" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Quédense con los puntos </span>- Keep the points, add it to their score</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Regalen los puntos</span> - Gift the points to another team (They cannot gift it to their own team)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dupliquen los puntos</span> - Duplicate the point value of the card, add it to their score</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Regalen los puntos negativos</span> - The point value of the card is negative, gift it to another team to take aways points from that team's score</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">6. Keep track of each team's score and write it on the board on project the score so throughout the entire game, students can see the running scores for their team and other teams.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">7. After the first team has decided what to do with the points, turn over a card for the net team that answered correctly. They decide what to do with their points. Continue until you have pulled a card for all teams that answered correctly .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">If a Team Answers Incorrectly</span>:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">8. If a team answers incorrectly, they will lose cards. The first card they need to surrender to the teacher is the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Quédense con los puntos</span> card. If they answer incorrectly the second time, take away another <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Quédense</span> card from the team. Continue taking away the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Quédense</span> cards until they do not have any more of those, then take away the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Regalen los puntos negativos</span> card, and then the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dupliquen</span> cards.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><b style="font-size: large; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">The End of the Game</span>:</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">9. The game ends AFTER students <u>answer ALL of the 14 questions</u>, and have no </span></span><span style="font-family: Righteous;">DECISIONES </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; white-space: pre-wrap;">cards remaining.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">A basic version of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Righteous;">DECISIONES</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Libre Franklin"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cards are available <b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Kwm8bHUu2iz3_4A9L9tUbKestg-m3_J6p7qH_O3dTaA/copy" target="_blank">HERE for download</a></span></b>. It will ask you to make a copy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Libre Franklin; font-size: medium;">Suggestions/Insights:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Libre Franklin;">- </span><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">The game works best when there are more than two teams playing. The reason for this is that when three teams play, and if one team starts to pull ahead, the other teams will most likely gift their points to the team with the lower points. This naturally helps to keep the scores close and teams won't give up and stop trying to win.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- Make the majority of the questions that students will know the answers. The best part of the game is students strategizing what to do with the points they are presented with. Throw in a few harder level questions to keep everyone on their toes and to encourage collaboration with their teammates.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- Students will quickly learn that they want to duplicate the cards with high numbers and gift the cards with the low numbers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- If a team has used all of their cards and only have the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Regalen los puntos</span> cards remaining, you may want to add a rule that if they answer incorrectly, they lose X number of points. The reason I say that is because today one team had only <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Regalen los puntos</span> cards remaining and I heard one of them say, "If we answer incorrectly, we don't have to give any points to other teams". Of course students will figure out every angle to their advantage. But, I'm telling YOU ABOUT IT, so you can add that extra rule to prevent that from happening. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- When pulling a card off the top of the deck for the teams that answered correctly, I always started with the same team and went in the same order. It made it easy to follow the same order and NONE of the teams complained about it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Libre Franklin;">- Another plus to this game, you have to read a text with your students first! We all know the power of reading when helping your students to acquire another language!</span></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-920387354501491162021-02-01T19:57:00.007-05:002021-02-02T10:35:33.397-05:00Jamboard in the WL Classroom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0f2P3hioJ_W7Ollbbm0Yh7JYXWz1W3OuSiIaC8D3YYurNbPZCZcempQl6gHOMHMKkdLjRV29k6qI9K4I3D8WlqV2A324QbrQqjV1yMBTseruKJDVEYgJQ3YbluRYvWp5zZe12fFxoLaG/s960/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252820%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0f2P3hioJ_W7Ollbbm0Yh7JYXWz1W3OuSiIaC8D3YYurNbPZCZcempQl6gHOMHMKkdLjRV29k6qI9K4I3D8WlqV2A324QbrQqjV1yMBTseruKJDVEYgJQ3YbluRYvWp5zZe12fFxoLaG/w485-h273/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252820%2529.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I was late to the Jamboard party but thanks to my colleague, Krista K., for talking about how she uses Jamboard with her French students and for giving me a brief overview of how to use Jamboard.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fast forward a few short months, and now I </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">am working on a grad class project related to using Jamboard in the WL classroom. After spending a lot of time creating Jams to share for the training that I'm creating, the thought occurred to me to share the Jams on this blog for others to use and/or edit for their own classrooms. The examples may give you inspiration to join the Jamboard band wagon and even to create activities that aren't mentioned here.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have never used Jamboard before, there is a really basic video, made in October 2020 so it has most of the Jamboard updates. (Skip videos older than spring 2020 because there have been updates that they won't mention.) Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbytD_LNVNM&feature=emb_logo " target="_blank">HERE </a>to watch the video by Teacher's Tech.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My Jams (what each of the files are called on Jamboard) are sorted into 4 categories, although several overlap, as you will see below. When you click on the HERE that will take you to the Jams, it will ask you to make a copy. Then you can make whatever changes you desire! Best of all, </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THEY ARE FREE!!!</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1) <span style="font-size: medium;">Interactive Games on Jamboard - access the copy <a href="https://jamboard.google.com/d/1YJL9h44j6z1nCb3maj0fYO5q2BAA3soO0PKl-TtdQVI/copy " target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBSrh7mtV80VqT26FC_sNW1I7ThNG55KwJXZ5s5x_e4BkQxImuG7EflZn-ISHL0DZC4dbfFEc4NQLXUIPqhcjHFzedahwOZmbLbZTL02jbBZCvWCXX_tL_TzOP48UUKJx_4JmURfw2BeJ8/s960/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252832%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBSrh7mtV80VqT26FC_sNW1I7ThNG55KwJXZ5s5x_e4BkQxImuG7EflZn-ISHL0DZC4dbfFEc4NQLXUIPqhcjHFzedahwOZmbLbZTL02jbBZCvWCXX_tL_TzOP48UUKJx_4JmURfw2BeJ8/w490-h276/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252832%2529.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2) <span style="font-size: medium;">Novel Activities and other Texts (several from <a href="https://miracanion.com/product/fiesta-fatal/" target="_blank">Fiesta Fatal</a> - added with written consent by the author, <a href="https://miracanion.com/product/fiesta-fatal/" target="_blank">Mira Canion</a>). access the copy <a href="https://jamboard.google.com/d/1L2ODHa4ZsZtRVd2f-kXK4zC6QnjdG0ZXJcF2THT8QyQ/copy " target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3) C<span style="font-size: medium;">heck IN & EXIT Tickets - access the copy <a href="https://jamboard.google.com/d/1FShxksCYY5jGLHyLk9hIqYVZHQe9nuercRyZ8l5NeEo/copy " target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8vs9eebcqS2KLMsQ6L-epgYDfnVSyReEK2zhS5YXQkS90EPlRiHoGzyFJrSGcivPG4BvLDbw3gQR-x07we8dwS3748g_SZxtbgbuSB2Y5lt1wEkaMFsyBjLCDDyrmEKOtToeubT2rrla/s960/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252827%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8vs9eebcqS2KLMsQ6L-epgYDfnVSyReEK2zhS5YXQkS90EPlRiHoGzyFJrSGcivPG4BvLDbw3gQR-x07we8dwS3748g_SZxtbgbuSB2Y5lt1wEkaMFsyBjLCDDyrmEKOtToeubT2rrla/w482-h270/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252827%2529.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4) <span style="font-size: medium;">Collaboration & Reaction Sentences - access the copy <a href="https://jamboard.google.com/d/1w_e05vg3CclRfBrPEKpmlxA51Gy1NyqTZvGvzoLnAEo/copy" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidj7h6bZ3BzQj8ocYrBvWkn6wjp8p0Gv18whoXwNRMicuygYC9_MTwdc8Py_4QJMnYNiwinCxR6PuAaJZYTdmng1X4r-ozPhRtY5cpfDiuYJiIklFQDlzzEHBoBNGcZ0AOj1dMIpBpJlRe/s960/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252834%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidj7h6bZ3BzQj8ocYrBvWkn6wjp8p0Gv18whoXwNRMicuygYC9_MTwdc8Py_4QJMnYNiwinCxR6PuAaJZYTdmng1X4r-ozPhRtY5cpfDiuYJiIklFQDlzzEHBoBNGcZ0AOj1dMIpBpJlRe/w482-h272/ACE+DL5743+Jamboard+google+slides+%252834%2529.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I will be adding to the Jams throughout this semester, so if you download a copy early in 2021, you can check later to see the new activities that are included. There are several ideas I want to add, but I need to complete some other tasks awaiting me at the moment. :-) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On a final note, making activities to upload as backgrounds on Jamboard is easy, especially for those that are accustomed to creating activities on Google Slides. Or, if you have a Canvas account, search for online whiteboards and you'll find at least 50 templates to get your started. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I imagine there are many Jamboard templates on sites <u>for sale</u>, but creating activities are EASY PEASY to make and it really doesn't take much time. Plus, then you can share them with others! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Many people share their templates FREE so use those and then, when you are inspired and ideas come flooding into mind, make your OWN and share yours! </span></div></span></div><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-44644730288279588272020-10-28T23:59:00.001-04:002020-10-28T23:59:26.434-04:00Digitally Ordering Events<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Ordering events is a good way to have students REREAD a text. Before the pandemic, I used to print copies of text and my students ordered the events using the paper copies. For teaching during the pandemic, I digitized the activity on a Google Presentation and assigned it through Schoology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first ordering activity I made this fall on Google Slides was for <a href="https://miracanion.com/ " target="_blank">Mira Canion's El escape Cubano</a>. I learned a few ways to improve upon it which are reflected on the ordering activity for <a href="https://miracanion.com/" target="_blank">Mira Canion's Tumba</a> novel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. <b>Limit each slide to 4 events</b>. More than increases the chances of students not getting the order correct.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. <b>Use at least two different colors for the text boxes</b>. If you make this activity a graded assignment, it makes it much easier for you to know if the order is correct with a quick glance at each slide. (But don't have the same pattern on each slide or the students will catch onto that quickly.)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUkegiWpw15eTMlYK6NBlFLRDcnXr9GI6i9IymgjpVKUKHGalzFxjRqbqYkkAFFMXE_2bMUQ0ghORkvWzP_ZNvoETu2SLcmwChYyDwfzRqiAjONjjDZPYitUDirufnxwddZUDdP5MkC7_/s960/Ch1-5+TUMBA+order+the+events+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUkegiWpw15eTMlYK6NBlFLRDcnXr9GI6i9IymgjpVKUKHGalzFxjRqbqYkkAFFMXE_2bMUQ0ghORkvWzP_ZNvoETu2SLcmwChYyDwfzRqiAjONjjDZPYitUDirufnxwddZUDdP5MkC7_/w408-h229/Ch1-5+TUMBA+order+the+events+%25282%2529.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKiVURBJ1mYsaMAvDUzELyiui8hbg5tuY-0cwfRyxapO997xhcz3N1cLXwHa0ENRbNqDJndt-sfF1VCAEYUeJ8Uzdk8KzPARY0NmOU1P3AqkSASZ30V1Jgk1ydCrvA8SFosUEu329LJk68/s960/Ch1-5+TUMBA+order+the+events+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKiVURBJ1mYsaMAvDUzELyiui8hbg5tuY-0cwfRyxapO997xhcz3N1cLXwHa0ENRbNqDJndt-sfF1VCAEYUeJ8Uzdk8KzPARY0NmOU1P3AqkSASZ30V1Jgk1ydCrvA8SFosUEu329LJk68/w447-h252/Ch1-5+TUMBA+order+the+events+%25281%2529.jpg" width="447" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you're interested in having a copy of the ordering activity on google slides for the first five chapters of Tumba, you can find them <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18DSAl4gz8abggBZtUYr1DNTi-SIDj2vMTkemzEONVyE/copy" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">FYI: I checked with Mira Canion to get her written consent to post this. (It's a must to check with an author before posting materials you created related to the author's book!)</span></p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-64529964990451736702020-10-25T15:15:00.001-04:002020-10-25T15:15:33.993-04:00An Easy Strategy to Help Online Students Stay Focused/Engaged<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI74-Bfo6shuYc_0ZJKU7WZ48J3FAQWt1DLdS4w_CI28FUjSJ48kKpPZBiTdOkhw0im0O__hjy8RNJLio08zZTH2allAGKh91dN7MSCWKpepNCZFsMsIv3pAF71vYJV2f-Pz54gDpCgc9W/s792/Presentation2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="792" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI74-Bfo6shuYc_0ZJKU7WZ48J3FAQWt1DLdS4w_CI28FUjSJ48kKpPZBiTdOkhw0im0O__hjy8RNJLio08zZTH2allAGKh91dN7MSCWKpepNCZFsMsIv3pAF71vYJV2f-Pz54gDpCgc9W/s320/Presentation2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is a simple strategy that online teachers can employ to help students that are learning synchronously from home to stay engaged. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">At my school, we are teaching to students physically in the classroom and at the same time we are teaching to students synchronously joining the class from their homes. I tried this technique last week and it definitely made a difference in how quickly students at home unmuted their mics and responded.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I share my computer screen with students in class and at home, and when I use a document camera, I share that screen with both sets of students at the same time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Instead of calling the student's name that I want to answer a question, I say, "#2 is for the student whose name I wrote". I say this whether the name I wrote is someone at home or at school in my classroom. Students in class need to stay engaged by following along with what I am projecting on the board and students at home must also be looking at the computer screen (not simply waiting for their name to be called before looking to see what question we are one).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pictured below is a warm-up for Spanish 2. Students in school have a 1/2 sheet of paper that they write on; students at home should be completing it as a Schoology assignment. I used the document camera as we went over the answers and I wrote the names on my copy of the warm-up. When we are reading or working on something from google drive or a word document, I type the student's name directly on the document.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1848" data-original-width="2048" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAs37o6LUziAa5bHRShc9X8UOBSK3GZD_dYpzwippinXO5_IUjkCeEkwfjl7kcjQqKsI2nmxRuj2n4rW6D2lpNDjV20lJfVt2r5ROmdJr73E_KgIETXne2EdbetqHSUdU2hSqVnJ1zpLh/w400-h361/writing+2.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are students that say what they are doing at home instead of giving the class their full attention. I have had students tells me they have a friend over at their house, they're baking cookies, they have the screen minimized and are playing an online game, plus other things that we won't get into. Writing the names on the document to "call" on students, worked this week. We'll see how long it is beneficial.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If all your online students are 100% engaged during your synchronous class (my classes are 72 minutes), then that leads me to one of two conclusions: (1) You are simply amazing and should write a book! or (2) they are not 100% engaged but you don't realize it...yet.</span></div><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-30883287671576585382020-10-15T22:04:00.004-04:002020-10-16T20:15:52.311-04:00Story Scripts & Preloading Vocabulary <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqw1RVqcqZLCEo8hAcjFyosuVKKdQXTAScwv5p6DaYAlg_mML3O2vLEhRCJmfmspUBfNhhlwasydcgI8yUzVpR3JAc_bu0Cb1jLrYuM79J9rhu3SNGFRIaxYBesPKhe0Os2Wbi2KnjutVR/s1056/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqw1RVqcqZLCEo8hAcjFyosuVKKdQXTAScwv5p6DaYAlg_mML3O2vLEhRCJmfmspUBfNhhlwasydcgI8yUzVpR3JAc_bu0Cb1jLrYuM79J9rhu3SNGFRIaxYBesPKhe0Os2Wbi2KnjutVR/s320/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm a few days away from starting the novel <a href="https://miracanion.com/" target="_blank">"El escape cubano" written by Mira Canion</a>. In my classroom, it's all about front loading the vocabulary before opening the pages of a novel so students sail through the reading with ease, making the reading more enjoyable.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For several years I've been using the story "La novia se queda en el ascensor". This year, with the need to revamp the formats of my story scripts in order to make the material available to those <u>four different groups that meet at the SAME TIME</u> each day: (1) those that are in my class on A/B days, (2) those learning at home on A/B days, (3) the 100% synchronous students, and (4) for those students in the classroom every day. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwh3R6Zqnx89QOe8txY3BJr9_t87U1QLmGlUVYRmic2A40XkbvnWs485WLYfM3LRDdhMqgZDzOwS7g9MBeSLOkWVAASyio5okBV9GHvO005E35_XATm31UiTMWw9dUK9aliVESXk5qQU9H/s424/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+9.30.29+PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="424" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwh3R6Zqnx89QOe8txY3BJr9_t87U1QLmGlUVYRmic2A40XkbvnWs485WLYfM3LRDdhMqgZDzOwS7g9MBeSLOkWVAASyio5okBV9GHvO005E35_XATm31UiTMWw9dUK9aliVESXk5qQU9H/w253-h201/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+9.30.29+PM.png" width="253" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is an outline of how I presented the story and provided extension activities for the story "La novia se queda en el ascensor".</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Using a document camera so students at home can see and projecting onto my board for students at school to see, students and I filled in the vocabulary sheet below. Students already KNOW most of the words. The new words are the ones I highlighted in yellow. This shows the students that they already know most of the word, plus they are introduced to the new ones in the upcoming story.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. I told the story using illustrations on Google Slides for visual support for both students in class and at home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbym9hQg0LgBePmSjkLRorGO1lF4pAz00aHaYXDcxCa8Ll8kauL1J-4U-k4jygAfcIXIs_p2KiVQjVFBPKz1hqJzfd6nRg6J-KQnEnnVUy7_PRwR73H0ce82vb8gjHemPpJ6K1k3-9QOnm/s1394/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+9.32.04+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="1394" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbym9hQg0LgBePmSjkLRorGO1lF4pAz00aHaYXDcxCa8Ll8kauL1J-4U-k4jygAfcIXIs_p2KiVQjVFBPKz1hqJzfd6nRg6J-KQnEnnVUy7_PRwR73H0ce82vb8gjHemPpJ6K1k3-9QOnm/w580-h230/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+9.32.04+PM.png" width="580" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. After telling the story, we read the story script. (page one shown below)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="720" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2At0lWaS8my6oy6TCRWKWe0qBiEbAE2CMf_a1HCemyFawkZHu9quAoJJuQ79c7QOCypdBWz15u8-t87_ibLKOj6BE5RgOEhkC1WGHYwdd_xdeB1Im3kmyxuVVpCTcrtSj4BX5Zg2QjM_/w396-h306/11.jpg" width="396" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Then I asked 10 True/False questions. They listened to the questions and to go over the questions I projected the questions on the board.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ77OcSskKa0MR2L0sqsnp4y9fEuu9QFZE3_4nhvnhsbZuD3DP-cakCtVDpeVAkPGKNHmCWb2oZaJAB1AiZFG3xFp2Pc3QKKkQEKvrLi3icawdc1LYD0E31nypwSTVjfAPLNzKHR92Uhmh/s1056/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ77OcSskKa0MR2L0sqsnp4y9fEuu9QFZE3_4nhvnhsbZuD3DP-cakCtVDpeVAkPGKNHmCWb2oZaJAB1AiZFG3xFp2Pc3QKKkQEKvrLi3icawdc1LYD0E31nypwSTVjfAPLNzKHR92Uhmh/w338-h261/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro+%25283%2529.jpg" width="338" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. I projected six slides, (one is shown below), in which students read the sentences and had to say if the sentence described picture A, B, or X - neither A nor B.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDhjA_2ZOy6Bx7vLAP9VEmr_SbtM2-CkxPcUEFVC7O6E9lHUNzuh41sEqXOvyfQTokpPRRiot1UW-pGvwGhYERHCiyLB-VPQME56h3xKOstvdvwgRL385gCkFZufbdZX2MkchfwrLfeXg/s720/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="720" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDhjA_2ZOy6Bx7vLAP9VEmr_SbtM2-CkxPcUEFVC7O6E9lHUNzuh41sEqXOvyfQTokpPRRiot1UW-pGvwGhYERHCiyLB-VPQME56h3xKOstvdvwgRL385gCkFZufbdZX2MkchfwrLfeXg/w342-h264/5.jpg" width="342" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. I uploaded the student copy of the story. It included title page (where students wrote their names so in my google drive it was clear on page one who completed the work); slide 2 had the directions; slides 3-5 had the story (but it was a jpg image of the story so they couldn't copy and paste the sentences); and slides 6-24, BUT...the illustrations were not in the correct order. The students had to order the slides by reading the story, and then they had to type one sentence (only one per slide) from the story for each slide.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUr5aqAdvshbrO6SwcumxhILmnxXe-NkaSa1l_5R0-eCys5PoP_dpkXli6EFSsstzP8zyzW8_aqAlNjuy3dL22A7HORxYLI52QCSDeFD9G5nvRvVu4dg2omjqebhpfU2M2dwPuoZFyVx9D/s320/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTaOZkmLTobW9GYT1PgEPJdoFb6HMs5ipg4oZj-lCcE9sGWynKCiM93pSxPW13sRslHUj89zY-aF6l6HcBK4zWiY8rc0bWPvFJ-IvHr_L5aPoebS84vYsyKH0ecWxdnZ95g3WfeWOmG56t/s320/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro+%25284%2529.jpg" width="320" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnEJOcJFKsqNVuUD4tFTlbNVJtDzMudrH3ZZUg_JnKiE9YR-DxpvLAMMtw9n1GJfM-iw3GZvuOWyfuF5v0C4r7Fu-ANSNSWz0B-vt8ov0T8qkkRI8sP1OVGFqILgcN3pwaCxG2hC7SR7M/s320/La+novia+se+queda+original+unit+3+intro+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. Somewhere in there, we had read the story script again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. We played <b>FLIP THE SCRIP</b>T explained <b><a href="http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2020/10/flip-script-new-game-for-wl-classroom.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Those activities flowed well together and were a nice balance of listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and writing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next, I'm working on making a digital file for the riddle I usually use before reading "El escape cubano". I'll share that on a future post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: small;">If you are interested in the google slide presentation you can email me at cynthiaunderscorehitzatyahoodotcom OR leave a comment below with your email.</span></div></span></div><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-22501770933767098592020-10-15T21:11:00.005-04:002020-10-16T20:13:44.283-04:00Flip the Script - A New Game for the WL Classroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcbkhYZ-DrOP_BC3wbYUAjZVHrLbaDDCWamzspTtqKcoNM6xGzB7zjhAnEJGz3Fl6SEwpd13A8RhntEMSCwmIbyufp_Swpubi0RYlLMi0Wj0Bz0F1g64UfK3EijPixbe2rDHlJ4uYNdLG/s762/fts.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcbkhYZ-DrOP_BC3wbYUAjZVHrLbaDDCWamzspTtqKcoNM6xGzB7zjhAnEJGz3Fl6SEwpd13A8RhntEMSCwmIbyufp_Swpubi0RYlLMi0Wj0Bz0F1g64UfK3EijPixbe2rDHlJ4uYNdLG/s320/fts.png" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a good day when you create a new game and it goes over well with each class that you play it. I created and played FLIP THE SCRIPT with three of my Spanish 2 classes today and since it worked so well I wanted to share it with others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm preparing my students to read <a href="https://miracanion.com/" target="_blank">"El escape cubano" by Mira Canion</a>, which will be their first novel that they read this year. Before we read this novel, I usually tell a story that I wrote about a bride and groom that encounter a problem when they go to their wedding reception. The goal is to provide a "<b><i>boatload"</i></b> of comprehensible input for the words <i style="font-weight: bold;">se escapa </i>and<i style="font-weight: bold;"> se queda, </i><span>which are words found in the first few chapters.</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>FLIP THE SCRIPT </b>explanation</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. You need a story script in which the students are familiar.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The story I used is titled: <i>La novia se queda en el ascensor</i>. I've read the story with my students and they participated in other writing and listening tasks using the same story script before playing <b>FLIP THE SCRIPT</b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Choose words/phrases in the text for students to translate from English to the TL and change those words to another color. Assign point values to the words/phrases with higher point values for the more challenging words/phrases. <br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Notice in the photo below, that some words are worth 1 point. The one point words are those that are used elsewhere in the text; the two points are ones that are not used in the text but I felt confident most teams would know them. There are some 3-point, 4-point, even a 6-point words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jv-xFdBtu0L6dm_Ju3hDA6fnmtvesqS0CtJhIXXKZ2IE8ppsIiZL0bBMBgnw4M2AREqYNffDkF6cAg4xmWAj2mSBCAwP0Qv5A3GososVyT2n9ecfi-3uHdkibw53ATo-WUxlwvrvL1HD//" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="600" data-original-width="972" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jv-xFdBtu0L6dm_Ju3hDA6fnmtvesqS0CtJhIXXKZ2IE8ppsIiZL0bBMBgnw4M2AREqYNffDkF6cAg4xmWAj2mSBCAwP0Qv5A3GososVyT2n9ecfi-3uHdkibw53ATo-WUxlwvrvL1HD/w640-h397/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+7.10.05+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Depending on your class size, tell students to form groups of 2-4. Three works best; 4 is probably too many because it makes it too easy for one of the group members to not participate.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Groups take turns. The first group chooses any word/phrases in parenthesis. They discuss the answer in their group, then one of the members writes the answer on a mini-whiteboard. If they are correct, they earn the points listed for that word/phrase. If they are wrong, their turn is over and the next group chooses a word to translate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is NOT a race. The teams take turns and that same rotation continues until all the words have been translated to Spanish.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The letters on the side are there so students identify the paragraph with the letter and then say which word they in English they translated to Spanish before showing me their whiteboard.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>Advantages of FLIP THE SCRIPT:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Students discussed the answers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- For many sentences the students had to read the full sentence to know WHO is doing the action</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Students stayed focused whether working on the word they chose or glancing at what other groups wrote</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- There is strategy involved; there were some groups that were leading with points that chose a 1 point word of which they were sure instead of choosing one they were not sure of.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- No pressure - teams can earn points each time when choosing the easier words - slow and steady wins the race (as what happened in one of my classes today).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>Disadvantage of FLIP THE SCRIPT:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">- The students in school played the game while students at home did another assignment. I'm not sure how to include the students at home without them having the advantage of looking up the words. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-19586375799736499632020-09-14T20:34:00.002-04:002020-09-14T20:38:56.952-04:00¿QUÉ TE GUSTA? Lesson Idea for levels 1 & 2<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Today I'm sharing a lesson that will engage students and provide you, the teacher, with a load of possibilities to comprehensible input related to the students' responses. My example is today's lesson with repetitions of the verb GUSTAR, but you can switch out the vocabulary and keep the same type of format for any structures. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipac1dfckw7wf_swaR79KgAn8cRcNXUO5SzvPML6LtliFp-4V5jMQAgRItP8gz2SCWZXQIdidneziTuQ9jvFwwlm60uhgJr-G56ePv5qEwBfR2Zobm-qNSNUvI9oeBDXNLg4-jsr424S0-/s960/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipac1dfckw7wf_swaR79KgAn8cRcNXUO5SzvPML6LtliFp-4V5jMQAgRItP8gz2SCWZXQIdidneziTuQ9jvFwwlm60uhgJr-G56ePv5qEwBfR2Zobm-qNSNUvI9oeBDXNLg4-jsr424S0-/s320/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">As background, at my school students with last names beginning with A-K on come to school on "A" days and the rest of the students login from home and watc</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">h/participa</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">te in the less</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">on synchronously. The next day students L-Z are at school while the A-K students learn online synchronously. There are a handful of students that are 100% synchronous. What that means, is that everyday I am working simultaneously with students in person and students online. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I created this activity so students could participate regardless of their physical location. (For another activity for hybrid classes or for regular classes too, see <a href="http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2020/08/lets-start-school-year-activity-that.html" target="_blank">THIS POST</a>.)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnK2YZF0e9seJoxlNmRvJXVdGx4IKDUEAr_4IjTIYEZMaHe4Oiva-lBr9ZFtXJ_LBJkYHKllDaF6vqYUbkhwZ40C5gBw6JQx_E0d11duuDjmIxhPkl6mm0CcJKSmm6nR4qM99kPYA4cFe/s960/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25283%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnK2YZF0e9seJoxlNmRvJXVdGx4IKDUEAr_4IjTIYEZMaHe4Oiva-lBr9ZFtXJ_LBJkYHKllDaF6vqYUbkhwZ40C5gBw6JQx_E0d11duuDjmIxhPkl6mm0CcJKSmm6nR4qM99kPYA4cFe/s320/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25283%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Create the Google Slide Presentation. </b>The title slide is shown above. On the second slide, I created a separate text box with each of the students' names. (I changed the names for this blogpost.) You <i>could</i> have your students do this, but I decided to provide this for the students so the font, size, and color were uniform. <p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don't forget to add your name too!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I made several slides that asked students if they liked something and gave them two options (yes, I like.... or no I don't like....). To prevent students from accidentally (or purposefully) clicking on the text boxes and photos on each slide, I saved the slide as a PNG and then uploaded the PNG as a background. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can go over the slides before you instruct the students how to respond, but I added some translations to the slides so I wouldn't have to do that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Share the Google Slide Presentation. </b>I shared the document with the students by placing it on Schoology, our LMS. I shared it so they did NOT have to make a copy because I want all of the students answering on one presentation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNboqLWtxSJJw8YI8CfRZZUx1Ss8ME__2Ur3TktSJNB6G_CeHbSBoqlI91kZdm5rvSbt922PvVrG0dGTBRd5f2CvwIWpiDeFitqTFPz6Zhod7aWD7efcl2pW5MOK5tc_Cls4jUAgWDlV9/s960/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNboqLWtxSJJw8YI8CfRZZUx1Ss8ME__2Ur3TktSJNB6G_CeHbSBoqlI91kZdm5rvSbt922PvVrG0dGTBRd5f2CvwIWpiDeFitqTFPz6Zhod7aWD7efcl2pW5MOK5tc_Cls4jUAgWDlV9/s320/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br />Demonstrate how to add your name to the slides. </b>I demonstrated how to click on my na</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">m</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">press COM</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">MAND + C to copy my name, and then move to another slide to paste their name with COMMAND + V (on a MAC). To add my name to other slides, I continued to press COMMAND + V. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I told the students to do the same and to add their names to the appropriate spot on each slide. Yes, it DID get tricky at times for students to add their names and then move it to the correct side, but </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">everyone managed. For the second class that I had for the day, I told students to go to another slide that wasn't as busy with other students. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghemnY3yd0xhkTToMGT7jj19uKQ4HSyMb9o7oAewPqHPFQqCn0fU3IVyJtDeiMIWKafIjEMrFsfqJR7CuqfkUVAqU0bGY0XTSEXn0VvMua3ujpIjAKWdDIkv57qcFGA2wLwabKlBeElHzH/s960/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghemnY3yd0xhkTToMGT7jj19uKQ4HSyMb9o7oAewPqHPFQqCn0fU3IVyJtDeiMIWKafIjEMrFsfqJR7CuqfkUVAqU0bGY0XTSEXn0VvMua3ujpIjAKWdDIkv57qcFGA2wLwabKlBeElHzH/s320/_%25C2%25BFQue%25CC%2581+te+gusta_+Blog+post+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Discussion of the students' answers.</b> After the students at school and at home had added their names to the slides, I asked personalized questions in Spanish about their answers, i.e. <i>What flavor of ice cream do you like? Do you like to swim in the ocean or in a swimming pool? Y</i><i>ou said you like the city better than the country, what are two cities that you like?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Write and discuss.</b> I asked a student to name one of the students in the class and then we wrote several sentences about that student, and then additional sentences to describe how many students liked or didn't like something on the slides. I split my computer screen with the slide presentation on one side and the paper on which I was writing with the help of the document camera on the other side.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Another use for the Google Slide Presentation. </b>Take screenshots of four slides after the names are added. Put those on one slide and then ask true/false questions about the information as a closing activity. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>The good and the bad:</u> (similar to what Keith Toda does on his blog, <a href="http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Todally Comprehensible</a>, that I really like. He names it "observations".)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- The activity provided both reading input (when they read to answer the questions) and listening input</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- With only a few slides, there is a lot of information to work with.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Students were engaged not only when adding their names to the slides, but also when anticipating that I may ask them about their response.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- It can be tricky when students move their name to one column or the other. Some students may be tempted to delete other's answers or move them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- After one class's google slide presentation is finished, it was easy to copy the entire presentation and change only the names on slide 2. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- If group work is possible in your setting, you can assign one slide to a group and working with their group members, they can write additional sentences.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- The students' answers on the slides can be used the following day with short answer questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you want a copy which you can edit, click <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/162AozTkYIJ2uxl61Yd3vutJaPVKcpZug6Evph-LyP38/copy" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-74015255146894815122020-08-26T23:13:00.000-04:002020-08-26T23:13:18.704-04:00Let's Start the School Year! An Activity that Works for Virtual Classes or In Person or Hybrid Models<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm five days away from the first day with students for the 2020-2021 school year. Currently, we are planning on seeing half of our students on alternating days, and the days they are not in school they will login and view the lesson synchronously. I will have several students in each class that are learning 100% synchronously online, and several that are attending school every day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My goal for my Spanish 2 students was to create a lesson in which students will learn about their classmates (build community) while listening to the conversation that I will have with each student based on the information (photos) that they have provided. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wanted a lesson that would work for both virtual classes and in-person classes because if 2020 has taught us anything, it is that change happens very quickly!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For Spanish 2, I usually do "card talk" in which students sketch a few things about themselves on construction paper and I discuss their sketches while I share it with the class. For my Spanish 4 students, I usually have them send me a photo of them that was taken over the summer and add it to a google doc. My plans for Spanish 4 are only slightly different this year, but Spanish 2 has changed completely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wanted to make their work as easy as possible so I created a Google Slides presentation, shared it with students, and students have an assignment to add photos on their slide before the first class. I could have given them instructions and have them write their name, but, again, I was going for super easy, so I created all the slides, copied the directions on each slide, and completed a slide of myself as a model.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know many of you have already started school, in fact tonight in my Spanish class for Spanish Teachers, taught by Adriana Ramirez </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 20px;">🙂,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">one of the teachers said he was already on his <u>third week with students</u>! But even if you have already started school, maybe this activity will still be useful for you or it may spark a new idea for something you can do with your students that centers around them AND provides a great deal of opportunities for comprehensible input.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>Slide 1 - TITLE SLIDE</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJAy2op3veTJFoek1ewGFaXepfS7YCbrQpPm3HJS5P6S3KWwmfUpljTp54Rkr6hsWgyWw0ZF-5-kl1S3SMJS8h16DWxvYlhvGyH681FjgBtun_hJOS1MUw6sv9w_3bH3Fc4h_xjajnrR4/s960/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJAy2op3veTJFoek1ewGFaXepfS7YCbrQpPm3HJS5P6S3KWwmfUpljTp54Rkr6hsWgyWw0ZF-5-kl1S3SMJS8h16DWxvYlhvGyH681FjgBtun_hJOS1MUw6sv9w_3bH3Fc4h_xjajnrR4/s640/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>SLIDE 2 - with instructions</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvab44cm_UsYaTX_4B7NespTEQbxB1q68N-99u4gdr0C6cuoJGk7os3ggHOBHOrpX7fH-61cfz7_NAMyg4AH5LTpumb3-9GSP2gQkQEQ7AyVb9SSUKroMlQTG4bEwSXqP5Uaz1rpB8EYa3/s960/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvab44cm_UsYaTX_4B7NespTEQbxB1q68N-99u4gdr0C6cuoJGk7os3ggHOBHOrpX7fH-61cfz7_NAMyg4AH5LTpumb3-9GSP2gQkQEQ7AyVb9SSUKroMlQTG4bEwSXqP5Uaz1rpB8EYa3/s640/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254); color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254); color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;">Slide 3 - My example to model what students should do.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254); font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFCNVC3KLJpdeVsFdZbTUzt8gUYSiYhyphenhyphenBuSKf09CB8ZyfzrCjm2ECVbML8UUg4NHwHxGQXx1zf3jvFQv0E3mujOn3dR2-7ZuAAF2IlQg8JRfmDGotb_FZCtzmwqCY965iHg3JbA28KVGt/s960/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFCNVC3KLJpdeVsFdZbTUzt8gUYSiYhyphenhyphenBuSKf09CB8ZyfzrCjm2ECVbML8UUg4NHwHxGQXx1zf3jvFQv0E3mujOn3dR2-7ZuAAF2IlQg8JRfmDGotb_FZCtzmwqCY965iHg3JbA28KVGt/s640/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I discuss my slide with the students, I will tell them my name, that I have a farm, which involves a lot of work, that I like to travel, and, No, I don't <i>want</i> a zebra. I want to go somewhere to see them in their natural habitat. COVID-19 destroyed my plans for doing that this summer, but I'm hopeful it will happen next year.)</div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>Slides 4-?, one for each student with instructions for students. </b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3ebVlKRX-xMy_3tRONYsc1z4idFmwUJTqo_sIEWnDu0DIJI_HjQmvnM-kOXiI1zymV3fuXHlY_SGRNOf8GvhjBUxuMl5IQ0LxZH3BAZ1mhwaclX-ecS-sJjEdcNE_GajPEGOlXMkGQD5/s960/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3ebVlKRX-xMy_3tRONYsc1z4idFmwUJTqo_sIEWnDu0DIJI_HjQmvnM-kOXiI1zymV3fuXHlY_SGRNOf8GvhjBUxuMl5IQ0LxZH3BAZ1mhwaclX-ecS-sJjEdcNE_GajPEGOlXMkGQD5/s640/Spanish+2+pd+1+2020-2021+Introductions-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-31501854215275313052020-08-09T16:44:00.118-04:002020-08-27T23:13:11.330-04:00More Social Distancing = More Social Networks<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">While we are social distancing when we are in person, Social Networks are the exact opposite especially when it comes to announcing <u>offers for bundles of online books and FVR libraries</u>. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYeiMsHGfRFh1iFHCAqyN5lWBIvYOLQzZpZw2VO0BSdJIrNN6OLDEydf9wiNflKNigNaVmASRgP3HpbLM3knToMUId_cpdOIWQFOKmWXWdcLdNWtSmpn9lEvex-c-j7ig43k-YN6eBjtca/s720/powerpoint+template+practice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYeiMsHGfRFh1iFHCAqyN5lWBIvYOLQzZpZw2VO0BSdJIrNN6OLDEydf9wiNflKNigNaVmASRgP3HpbLM3knToMUId_cpdOIWQFOKmWXWdcLdNWtSmpn9lEvex-c-j7ig43k-YN6eBjtca/s640/powerpoint+template+practice.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">With COVID-19 concerns, the procedures for sharing materials (books) are more restrictive and not permitted. Publishers have seen this need and responding with what feels like a new offer popping up each week (in fact I had to update this post before I even published it!) My school has made it clear that there is <u>no money</u> for purchases, so at this point, anything I buy for the students will be out of my ow pocket. I’m still trying to </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">determine which is the best </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">option, or if I need to change up my curriculum and format for FVR and make it work with the books I already have. (Option: I have class sets of various books so I <i>could</i> have each class read a different book, but oh, the extra planning, time, and energy needed for that exhausts me just thinking about it.) </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>E-book, and FVR libraries, and good deals - oh boy! </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Over the years I have spent much of my school department money on books for my students - class sets and books for my FVR library. I’ve also spent an <u>untold amount of my personal money</u> buying new books at conferences, from publishers, and from Amazon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are the offers that I know of for online FVR books and for class novels. They are listed in alphabetical order. If you know of others <u>(appropriate for the needs and levels of non-native learners in a K-12 setting</u>) and want me to add them to the list, let me know. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- <b><a href="https://training.wlproficiencyproject.org/e-lit?fbclid=IwAR2fDNyfthQxP_-IQFq-99ZE2H7qsjMJr_1W5_mL73ddB9LoT7ZZQwjOS_A" target="_blank">E-lit App</a> </b>- Combination of <b>French, Spanish, & Japanese </b>titles</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">*Unable to verify when this app will be available. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Check the website for the current number of texts and novels included in the offer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Digital subscription library with leveled texts and novels, states more texts/novels are being/will be added; online access through August 31, 2021, $199 for 180 students’ $249 for 250 students; $299 for 350 students</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Price available through August 31, 2020</i></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- <b><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/?s=fvr" target="_blank">Fluency Matters</a></b> - online FVR library - <b>French, Spanish, & German </b>novels</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Various choices depending on the target language and number of books in the offer. Order in multiples of 25.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Baker’s dozen, 13 pre-selected Spanish novels, 1 year online access, $50 for 25 students</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Six pre-selected Spanish novels,1 year online access, $25 for 25 students</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Current price available through Sept 30, 2020</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- <a href="https://miracanion.com/product/online-books-unlimited/" target="_blank"><b>Mira Canion</b></a> - online FVR library or individual books - <b>Spanish novels</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Each package below is for 1 teacher, up to 300 students, for one full year from date of activation (“renting” the books online)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1) A Single title written by Mira: $68. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2) 8 Spanish books written by Mira; online access for up to 300 students for one full year, $258 <i>thought August 31, 2020; $298 after 8/31/2020</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3) Elementary FVR Library - 4 book titles, $108<i> through August 31</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4) 10 titles - Mira’s books and other authors, Spanish 1/2 FVR Library - $298 <i>through 8/31/2020</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">5) 10 titles - Mira’s books and other authors, Spanish 2/3 FVR Library - $298 <i>through 8/31/2020</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;">- <a href="https://mygenerationofpolyglots.com/11142-2/#Spanish" target="_blank"><b>Mike Peto</b></a> - purchase individual online books - <b>Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese & Latin</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;">The online access to the books you purchase is available through July 1, 2021. It appears as though there is a sale currently going on with book prices of $24.99 for up to 300 students and 1 teacher. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- <b><a href="https://www.storylabs.online/shop-wlr?Language=Spanish" target="_blank">Storylabs</a></b> - <b>Spanish, French, Latin, and English </b>novels & stories</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You’ll have to check this website yourself because there are many different price points. For example, <u>one book</u> is listed at $249 for 180 students and with Teacher resources available; while another book is listed at $60 for 175 students. My <i>guess</i> is that each author set the price, but I don’t know that for sure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It appears as Storylabs doesn’t offer anything similar to other publishers in which you can have a collection of texts/novels for a set price. If Storylabs does indeed offer a collection for a set price, I was unable to find it on the website. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Two years ago, the blog “Spanish mama” posted a list of free online resources. I have not checked if all of these are available still today, but it may be worthwhile to check out the post <a href="https://spanishmama.com/online-spanish-books-for-free/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_3NcSKz7Efg0lkEZ9O15S9r_mtctYOY3ZCOcUFnp9JbgkOqAFeOic2G8OXOhVO3pCga6ZOhBKv3ieYaU9VDpdpilKiYryO91rJg4mjv2t07dKgAL3QGF6bvYT8kvHAeRe-nmbW84QgZAg/w160-h320/girl-160172_1280.png" style="font-family: verdana;" width="160" /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;">Note, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">there are other online resources available at different price points but I am not going to list them here because there are many and, for sure, I will end of making an incomplete list. What I suggest you do, is check the Facebook groups listed above and scroll through the posts. When people find resources, or when they are introducing and/or “advertising” their resources, they generally post it on a Facebook group where others will see it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-50109274411988019552020-04-15T13:48:00.002-04:002020-04-24T09:48:37.746-04:00Photo Reader's Theater - A Fun Online Teaching Activity!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teachers, how's that online instruction coming along? Do you wake up with that same excitement for teaching that you did before cover-19 took over our lives, and the news, and the supermarkets, and ... our classrooms? Or, if you're like me, is the task of trying to provide the best educational experience for your students on a completely different format starting to wear you down and squeeze some of the joy out of teaching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If so...<b>READ ON!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The time is ripe for a fun activity that will allow your students to show their creativity and enjoy their classmates' creativity. I have an idea on how to make that happen for your students!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This week my daughter, (in-law.. but she's way too precious to officially add that to her name), who, by the way, is the most amazing elementary art teacher that exists ❤️, shared pictures of an art assignment in Facebook that she made for her students. When I saw the pictures I immediately started thinking about how I could use this with my students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the right is a screenshot of her post from Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the assignment, her students need to find a famous artwork, or one that they like, and recreate it in photo form using the materials they have at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Currently my Sp4/5 students are reading a book as an <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-e-course/" target="_blank">ecourse on Fluency Matter's website</a>. They are reading <i><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-e-course/" target="_blank">Bananas</a></i>, written by <a href="https://somewheretoshare.com/" target="_blank">Carrie Toth</a>. I grabbed my hard copy of the book and paged through it, looking at the illustrations and <b>BINGO!</b>...the idea of Distance Learning Photo Reader's Theater started to formulate in my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is Distance Learning Photo Reader's Theater? Whatever book you are reading with your students, ask them to recreate one of the illustrations that are in the book. I was careful to instruct them NOT to ask their friends to help, but they could have family members join in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Reminder: Don't post the illustrations from the book unless you have written expressed consent from Fluency Matters! I checked with Fluency Matters before publishing this post on my blog to make sure I could use the illustrations.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first photo I received is a recreation of an illustration from <i><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-reader/" target="_blank">Bananas</a></i> in which the younger brother is chasing after his older brother. The student's photo is of him chasing his older brother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other photos are rolling in this morning and, I have to say, <b>this is making my day!</b> I love that the students have the chance to do something <u>super easy</u> and creative and fun related to the text. This is exactly what both they and I needed after 3 1/2 weeks of online teaching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some other photos from today. This is from chapter 2 of <i><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-reader/" target="_blank">Bananas</a></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This next photo is from chapter 8 of <i><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-reader/" target="_blank">Bananas</a></i>. I like how well the dogs are cooperating in the student photos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This last submission really hit it out of the PARK with the attention to details - the clothing articles and colors, the arm placement, the expressions, even the detail of the table and the background. BRAVO!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Spanish 1 students are starting <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/brandon-brown-quiere-un-perro-past-tense-e-course/" target="_blank">Fluency Matter's ecourse <i>Brandon Brown quiere un perro</i></a> today. That book has loads of illustrations that will be a snap for students to replicate such as the illustration shown below. Students love sharing pictures of their pets and this will give them that opportunity. If they don't have a dog, they use what they have available - a cat, a turtle, a stuffed animal - all of them are possibilities! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you live in an urban area, tell the students the pictures do NOT have to be outside. For example, they could replicate the illustration from <i><a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/bananas-reader/" target="_blank">Bananas</a></i> (on the right) INSIDE their homes and it gives the parents a chance to get involved in the assignment too. If they don't have a younger sibling for the picture, use a teddy bear!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are several ways the teacher can then use the photos after they receive them. (But Remember: You have to get the parents' permission to share the photos!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1) Share them on your Learning Management System and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">let the students SIMPLY ENJOY the photos</span></b> of their classmates!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As far as I'm concerned, that's as far as you need to go, but...if you want other ideas or your administration will want more than that, you could...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2) Put the photos on Google Slides or PowerPoint and during a live online class using Zoom or something similar, use the photos to retell parts of the story and provide additional comprehensible input about the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3) Make a matching activities with the student photos and sentences from the book or sentences that you create.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) Upload the photos to <a href="https://kahoot.com/" target="_blank">Kahoot</a> and use them during a live session on <a href="https://zoom.us/" target="_blank">Zoom</a>. For example, the <a href="https://kahoot.com/" target="_blank">Kahoot</a> page will show a photo and you can have the students choose which answer..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- correctly describes the photo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- is the only sentences that does NOT describe the photo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- is the thoughts of one of the characters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- is an event that happened immediately before or after the photo</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) UPDATE: Here is a photo of my zoom Kahoot game with students on Thursday. Some ideas for questions: </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- type the titles of 4 chapters from the book; ask which chapter title best matches the photo </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- type four events in the book; ask which ONE event happened before (or after) the photo</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- (this can be a photo as pictured below with thought bubbles); ask which is the most logical thought that the character has at that moment OR which answer would NOT be a logical thought</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- type four events related to the photo; ask students to order the events</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- write four descriptions; ask which description best describes the photo</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- write four names; ask which person(s) are shown in the photo</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- make 4 captions of the photo (new ones that YOU create); ask which would be a good caption for the photo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">AGAIN...so many possibilities 😀</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5) UPDATE 4/20/20: I made a google slide presentation and assigned it through Schoology (similar to those that have Google Classroom). Students click on the word “text” and a text box appears for them to write what they think are the characters’ thoughts. See examples below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You don't have to limit the student created photos to the illustrations in the book. You could direct students to the page number of one of the illustrations and ask students to create a photo of an event that happened after that illustration; or give them a chapter and ask them to create their own photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The goal is to give your students the freedom to be creative and share that with your classmates.<b> It will be a fun assignment for them and they will appreciate it.</b> Some...may even thank you. 😊</span>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-58760220097024755522020-02-05T16:52:00.001-05:002020-02-05T17:00:23.080-05:00Brain Break: Relaxing with No Frills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2H8AfQPyDH5Q6-Ai23oLR4ttJg_2UGWWj2nrtIAXKcOE4pOwnWsy8yKGTgWem9B30pPRW_lu1YUwS06o7l_txvHc1fqQq8Dk49Rew3Kw4vn8LxPmB634RgLo7OqMEKxsjOhUUMKcRm0s/s1600/Slide28.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="720" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2H8AfQPyDH5Q6-Ai23oLR4ttJg_2UGWWj2nrtIAXKcOE4pOwnWsy8yKGTgWem9B30pPRW_lu1YUwS06o7l_txvHc1fqQq8Dk49Rew3Kw4vn8LxPmB634RgLo7OqMEKxsjOhUUMKcRm0s/s400/Slide28.jpeg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most brain breaks that I use in class are ones that have the students up and moving around. This brain break doesn’t fit the regular mold, but you will find it has its uses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s quick, no-frills, no prep nor props needed, and relaxing. You decide how much of the target language you want to incorporate during the brain break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Students close their eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. The teacher says, “Piensa en <i>(think about)</i>...” followed by a location. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Ask students what they see, hear, smell, how they feel, or anything that requires a short answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. With their eyes still closed, students call out their answers in L1 or in the TL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Depending on the level, you can ask the entire question in the TL. The students can answer in English or the TL, again, depending on the level of language the students have available to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Examples in English:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Think about the beach. What do you hear? What do you see? How do you feel? What do you smell?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other locations: mountains, restaurant, math class, a concert, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did this today with my level 1 students. To snap them back into classroom mode, the last place I asked them to think about was a physical education class and then said, ¿Qué hueles? (What do you smell?) In unison, they all said “sweat!” and were ready to continue with the lesson.</span><br />
<br />Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-42667859839407547102019-10-20T19:09:00.000-04:002019-10-21T12:22:21.835-04:0010 Uses for Revista Literal: A FREE Spanish Resource <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're a Spanish teacher and you haven't heard about <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> yet, then I'm here to introduce you to this incredible resource. Revista Literal is the brainchild of <b>Martina Bex</b>, a language curriculum specialist and also the founder of <a href="https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/" target="_blank">The Comprehensible Classroom</a>, the SOMOS curriculum, <a href="https://garbanzo.io/" target="_blank">Garbanzo language website</a>, and creator/writer of endless resources on <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Comprehensible-Classroom-By-Martina-Bex" target="_blank">TeachersPayTeachers</a> (not to mention a national presenter and keynote speaker. I stated above, it is a FREE resource. According to the <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> website, "<a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> is a <u>monthly publication</u> for beginning Spanish language learners written by Spanish language learners. Each month, readers submit short, original stories for publication." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After students submit their stories, Martina invites native Spanish speakers to proof the stories and then she adds glossaries for the stories and volunteers add the English translations to the glossaries. After the stories are proofed and have glossaries, Martina places the stories in an online format, c</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reates a title page listing the stories for the month, and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">adds graphics to the stories. She credits the writers of the stories using the students' first name and town and state, and credits the volunteer proofers and glossary writers. Then she publishes the stories online as a free resource for Spanish teachers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, voila, you have a free resource that comes to you each month to use with your students. Some of the stories are written in the present tense and others in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are 10 ways to add the stories to your lesson plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. <b>Partner Reading.</b> Students pair up with a partner and read the stories to each other for X number of minutes. This even works for your novice readers because of those beautiful glossaries for each story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. <b>Extra Reading Resources.</b> If you have students or parents asking what is available for a student that is struggling, or on the other end of the spectrum, a student that wants to continue learning beyond the classroom, tell them about <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a>. I download the resource (yes, you can download it if you prefer to read it on paper) and add it to our learning managagement system so it is always available to students.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDk7INUGOl75YH7wUN7qD4YFRzK7_cpVsJHQxJ7puxlhU3zY5i5q7eWWI5aweNTGup8RJCkpmkIcg1-p6elD0DPzp1Gcacj7vlHfCRQNQmZKDAeN3HylfjrIGP_GVqCBQ0OSAC7z-p4-x/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-10-20+at+6.20.17+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="654" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDk7INUGOl75YH7wUN7qD4YFRzK7_cpVsJHQxJ7puxlhU3zY5i5q7eWWI5aweNTGup8RJCkpmkIcg1-p6elD0DPzp1Gcacj7vlHfCRQNQmZKDAeN3HylfjrIGP_GVqCBQ0OSAC7z-p4-x/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-10-20+at+6.20.17+PM.png" width="365" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. <b>Bell-ringer.</b> Project a story from <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> and ask comprehension questions for students to answer. Last week I projected the story "EL LABORATORIO" and alongside where it was projected I wrote the following questions for my Spanish 1 students to answer in English.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>1. Write 2 descriptions for Dave.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>2. Write 3 facts about his job.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>3. List 4 things about Karen.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I only asked for 2 descriptions for Dave, when I went over the answers with the class and a student responded with 2 of the descriptions, I asked what other descriptions were mentioned. I did the same with #2 and #2, Then we read the end of the story together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. <b>Sub Plans!</b> Use your imagination on how you can make your life easier when you need to be absent from work. <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> will continue to provide comprehensible input to your students during your absence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. <b>Running Dictation.</b> Read Martina's explanation of Running Dictation <a href="https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/2011/06/29/running-dictation/" target="_blank">here</a>. If you want to put a new spin onto running dictation, use an online crossword puzzle creator and make a crossword puzzle of information from the story. You'll get double-whammy of reading out of the story because students read the story from <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> (in the hall or wherever you have it posted) and then have to read the crossword clues at their "home base" in the classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. <b>Chronological Order.</b> Pull some sentences out of the story that can easily conform to a timeline and have the students predict the order of the story. Obviously, do not read the story with the students before this. If you want to do this as a group, show (tape to the board) 2 of the sentences and ask students which one is first in the story, then add another sentence and students decide the placement of the third sentence. Add another and continue; students can change the order as new sentences are added and the story order becomes clearer (or they <i>think</i> it becomes clearer). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7. <b>Find It</b>. Project the story, read it together with the students, then play Find It with flyswatters as explained <a href="http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2019/09/89-101-ways-to-trick-your-students-into.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8. <b>Mosaic Story(a)</b>. Do this <u>before</u> reading the stories with the students. Pull sentences from 3 different stories from Revista Literal and list the sentences on one paper in random order. Write a brief description of each of the stories (brief!-brief!-brief!) in English (don't mention any of the characters in the story by their name in the story), and the students' task is to determine which sentences go with which story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9. <b>Mosaic Story (b).</b> Again, do not read the story with the students before completing this task. Pull sentences from several stories and have the students create a story using the sentences. You could tell students they can omit X number of sentences and/or you can tell students to add sentences to make the story flow. The Mosaic Story (b) activity will provide your novice high and intermediate students an opportunity to create with the language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10. <b>Go crazy! </b>Students use any sentences from the entire monthly issue to create a short story. Limit the students to 10 sentences or whatever number works best for you. Come to think of it, THIS would be a good emergency sub plan to have available when you need it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obviously, since <a href="https://revistaliteral.com/" target="_blank">Revista Literal</a> has stories, there are a boatload of possibilities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you Martina for making teaching a bit easier. ❤️</span><br />
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<br />Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-27693618857284860442019-10-02T18:20:00.002-04:002019-10-02T22:32:07.332-04:00Charlala + Sr. Wooly Resources = Happy Students & Teachers<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ever since I stumbled across Charlala.com, thanks to a post on Twitter, my mind has been bombarding me with ideas of how to use it in class. If you don't know about <a href="http://charlala.com/">Charlala.com</a> yet, go to the website and explore (you will love it, I promise) and <a href="https://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2019/05/use-of-charlalacom-to-engage-students.html" target="_blank">check out these explanations</a> of how I've used it in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Spanish 1 students have watched <a href="https://www.senorwooly.com/" target="_blank">Sr. Wooly's</a> GUAPO video and completed a few of the extra activities that he provides on his website. One of those activities was the cloze activity. I printed the "fácil" version on one side of a paper and the "difícil" version of the cloze activity on the other side. (This is perfect for differentiating instruction in the classroom!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After we went over the lyrics, students got an iPad and I instructed them to chose one of the lines in the story and to sketch it on the charlala.com webpage. If you know the GUAPO song, you know that the lyrics are repeated many times, which means there weren't many things for the students to draw. (But, this can be a good thing! Read on.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the students submitted their sketches, I projected many of them onto the board. First, students had to identify which line of the song the sketch represented and then we described more details about the sketches. It didn't matter that there were five sketches of a man with green eyes and brown hair. The students heard a huge amount of comprehensible input on high frequency structures (tiene, es, soy) plus useful adjectives, nouns, and expressions (guapo, feo, mujeres, alto, no es necesario).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you use songs with your students and want a new way to re-use the song for more comprehensible input, give this a try! If your song is a story, after viewing the sketches, you could ask students to put the song in order using the sketches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-44007036370970220162019-10-02T17:47:00.001-04:002019-10-02T17:47:35.147-04:00Avoiding a Crash and Burn Lesson<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3I50_4iD_3p3ZUvwY7M1zVgoJcNLaQnBrFia2zEsxlNgkI_g7cj4m8zWMsx1EmRQgJSoH2lRLVUWIeBRY3jbEDvj8Z4rUPXgmTb5kq0iWcJLoNiw6Nvos4g-pjL-TYgUD7_xjoYPAjEn/s1600/car-accident-2789841__340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="604" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3I50_4iD_3p3ZUvwY7M1zVgoJcNLaQnBrFia2zEsxlNgkI_g7cj4m8zWMsx1EmRQgJSoH2lRLVUWIeBRY3jbEDvj8Z4rUPXgmTb5kq0iWcJLoNiw6Nvos4g-pjL-TYgUD7_xjoYPAjEn/s320/car-accident-2789841__340.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Short and simple: when you sense your lesson headed toward an eminent crash and burn - ABORT. Change things up or recreate your lesson on a fly but <u>do NOT continue down that sad little destructive path</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Last Wednesday, I had what I thought was a well-planned, great lesson and I was going to provide loads of CI to my Spanish 1 students. But, for whatever reason, one particular group of students came to class and it felt as some unknown force had sucked out all of their energy on the way to my classroom, or maybe even in a previous class. Whatever caused it, was beyond my control. What happened in my class to turn that low energy into attentive and engaged students, was my task at hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Before I took my advice above, I trudged on, through a warm-up that was a bit too challenging, past the mini-lecture I gave to tell them about the power of a great education, and even a tried-and-true brain break that fell flat. I was minutes from a complete crash and burn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Here I was, ready to go into the main part of the lesson, with a classroom of students running on "E" (empty). I was going to </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">tell</i><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> them a story about two friends that went to a horror movie, but in my mind's eye I didn't envision a good outcome.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxgrxzxIttOr0-0fykFxHC14qHhWPrnak1itFylS30deqHAHdvmmy_HmaM74fYPHu6sIhaX59qugtnvFnoCeBcU635gPp9N04nrI_hxYNVVLpKuTXpaNM6IT-4UPPuDqGdmu_ia8fTZOr/s1600/masks-40963__340.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="463" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxgrxzxIttOr0-0fykFxHC14qHhWPrnak1itFylS30deqHAHdvmmy_HmaM74fYPHu6sIhaX59qugtnvFnoCeBcU635gPp9N04nrI_hxYNVVLpKuTXpaNM6IT-4UPPuDqGdmu_ia8fTZOr/s200/masks-40963__340.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Thankfully, I remembered what I've heard countless times at conferences and workshops and have told others many times: </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">STUDENT ACTORS</b><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">. Don't simply tell the story; have students act out the story. As (good) luck would have it, when I asked for actors, 5 students raised their hands, two of which can naturally draw and keep the attention of their classmates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Within minutes of "hiring" the two actors and starting the storytelling process, the tide started to turn. The actors were funny but not distracting, I added</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> movement (student actors "ran" around the room to arrive at the movie theater), </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used props (Monopoly money and canisters for popcorn) plus a 3rd actor to sell the popcorn), and coached them to act scared, really scared, during the "horror movie". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My student actors were the difference between a ho-hum story and a funny, interactive story. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The students' energy during the story as they watched the student actors and laughed with them, flowed over to the retell of the story and to the Write & Discuss. It allowed for loads of CI to receptive ears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So, when you see the Crash and Burn nearing, abort. There's nothing wrong with that and everything wrong with ignoring the fact that something needs to change - immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A few reminders when "hiring" student actors:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">- be prepared to coach the students to bring out the best of them and the story</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">- don't accept mediocre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">- if you need to "fire" student actors, do it swiftly, but gently</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">- thank the student actors for a job well done.</span><br />
Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-41529630395117561262019-09-18T23:30:00.003-04:002019-09-18T23:32:34.005-04:00Fun App: TextingStory Chat Story Maker<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Get ready for that feeling when you find an app that you immediately think of a boatload of possibilities for using it in your classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was scrolling through Twitter tonight when I saw a Tweet from Meredith White about the app, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textingstory-chat-story-maker/id1083676922" target="_blank">TextingStory Chat Story Maker</a>. Less than a minute later I had downloaded the app and was creating a short story to use in class tomorrow for my bell ringer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I made the video to go with Martina Bex's curriculum, SOMOS 1 Unit 2. I'm enjoying the ease of using the SOMOS curriculum, especially since this is the first time I've taught Spanish 1 since spring of 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Thank you, Martina (a.k.a. the coolest person I know ❤️ 😊 - right back at'cha)</i></span><br />
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Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-74872312621213230952019-09-17T22:47:00.001-04:002019-09-18T12:13:13.633-04:00#89 - 101 Ways to Trick your Students into Reading <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Someday I will write a book titled, "101 Ways to Trick your Students into Reading the Same Text Again" or, at the least, submit a conference session proposal on it. I really don't have 88 other posts on this blog on this subject, but I'm willing to bet I have that many ideas that I've used in my Spanish classes in the last 19 years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I create activities or games, I tend to make ones in which students work with a partner or in groups of three to help keep all students engaged. But I changed it up a bit today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, I did a MovieTalk of a super short film clip, "El mejor de la clase", with my Spanish 1 students. The instructions and lesson plans are from <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SOMOS-Spanish-1-Unit-2-El-encierro-de-toros-Camina-y-corre-321650" target="_blank">Martina Bex's (The Comprehensible Classroom) SOMOS 1 Unit 02 curriculum</a></b>. In the curriculum Martina included a "basic script" of what happens in the video to guide teachers on how to do a MovieTalk. After completing the MovieTalk, I read the script to my students, while clarifying, sketching, gesturing and asking questions as I read the script.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I asked students to tell me 5 words that they still had a question about or were unsure of. Following that, I noticed the students needed some type of movement. I made an on-the-spot decision (what teacher doesn't do that on a regular basis?) to split the class into two groups and play a game similar to <a href="http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2016/07/14-energizing-review-games.html" target="_blank"><b>Find It</b></a>. However, instead of working in small groups, I used the script that was projected on the board. I numbered the students so they could follow the order and keep the game moving (instead of deciding each round which student went next).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A student from each team went to the board with a marker in hand. I said the word in English and they had to read the text in order to find the Spanish word. When they found it, they had to circle the word before the other student did in order to earn a point for their team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I kept it moving at a fast pace by not having them erase the circle they had drawn. Each student had several turns at the board and it took 6 minutes or less. It took the place of our 2nd Brain Break today because it had everyone up and moving around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The beauty of using this particular script is that (1) it is comprehensible, of course, and (2) many words are used multiple times throughout the text. When I called out words that were used several times in the text, there was a greater possibility that students wouldn't try to circle the exact same word at the same time (helping to lesson the chances that it would turn into a contact sport). </span><br />
<br />Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-59989640720605903822019-09-14T08:10:00.001-04:002019-09-14T08:12:32.520-04:00The POWER of Daily Warm-ups (bell ringers)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How is it that I've only <i>really</i> experienced the power of daily warm-ups this year, after almost two decades of teaching? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've used warm-ups to start class, off and on during my years of teaching, but this year is when everything has come together, along with my determination to prepare daily warm-ups and my mindset on what types of warm-ups to use for students to receive the most benefit from them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the teacher <u>is consistent</u> in providing daily warm-ups it provides a comfortable and structured start of the class for the students. I greet my students at the door and they in turn greet me with that week's password. When they enter the room, they see the warm-up projected on the board. They collect the things they need from their backpacks, grab a clipboard (I have a deskless classroom), go to their seat, and <i>boom</i>, they're immersed in Spanish from the very start of class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My suggestions for creating warm-ups are:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">-be consistent!</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">-keep it short</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">-always...go over it with the students</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<span style="color: #38761d;">connect it with previous lessons</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<span style="color: #674ea7;">personalize it to students</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<span style="color: #38761d;">make sure students will be able to complete it without struggling</span> </span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-don't collect it (that's right - don't do that to yourself!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some benefits of <u>daily</u> warm-ups are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- <b>Immediately immerses students in language <i><u>that is comprehensible</u></i></b>: <i>the emphasis is on "comprehensible language", which puts students at ease and instills them with confidence because they know they can be successful in completing the activity</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- <b>Sets the tone for the class</b>: <i>we're going to utilize <u>every</u> minute of the class period in experiences that are designed specifically with the students' success in the language as top priority</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Connects to the students</b>: <i>use sketches that students created, and conversations/photos from previous days; students understand their contributions are important elements of the class and they are appreciated! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Creates a familiar setting/comfortable routine</b>: <i>students know the routine and are immediately put at ease as they follow the routine (benefits both the quiet students and those that are filled with energy that we may wish we had </i>😂<i>)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Provides quiet time</b>: <i>students that complete the warm-up know they will have a few moments to relax after they complete the activity as classmates finish up the warm-up</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Reviews material from previous day(s)</b>: <i>reinforces the material introduced/ discussed in the past, providing additional input</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Informal</b> <b>Formative assessment</b>: as <i>teacher moves throughout classroom and glances at students' work, it gives quick feedback on students' progress </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i><b>Provides time for teacher tasks</b><i>: take attendance, catch absent students up to date, etc, </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below are examples of the warm-ups I've used in the last few days</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. One of the classes created this OWI (One Word Image). I used the warm--up for all three of the Spanish 1 classes the following day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. I used SpanishPlans' <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-First-MovieTalk-El-nino-quiere-un-dragon-4817196" target="_blank">lesson "El Niño quiere un dragon"</a> (free on TPT). This was the warm-up the following day. It's the first time students had to form the sentence from scrambled words so I did not put any extra words in the sentences that were not needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. I created this warm-up based on the conversation I had with students the previous day. The lesson is from Martina Bex's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SOMOS-Spanish-1-Unit-1-Dice-843365" target="_blank">Somos curriculum, Level 1, Unit 1</a> (free on TPT). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Unscramble sentences. Students did a similar warm-up the previous week (see #2 above). The previous day I had a substitute so students listened to the first half of a story I wrote and put on a video, and then read the 2nd half of the story and answered comprehension questions. This warm-up is based on the video & reading from the previous day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-58850794309507749962019-09-02T18:33:00.000-04:002019-09-02T18:33:31.541-04:00Creating Online Stories with MyStorybook<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCd373l9YF_QqirU6BZ51Wjw9D-34vBosW8ErrZ_WJbbMUIKnjDakvm0bxZQRD9QyhqCK318hOJZE4CjqrXhhPvCcMA1wqksAgm5-AZgPGV7g577Yy4LgnX7bNXC1qIk9UKfCDzKqWrrg/s1600/aab.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCd373l9YF_QqirU6BZ51Wjw9D-34vBosW8ErrZ_WJbbMUIKnjDakvm0bxZQRD9QyhqCK318hOJZE4CjqrXhhPvCcMA1wqksAgm5-AZgPGV7g577Yy4LgnX7bNXC1qIk9UKfCDzKqWrrg/s400/aab.png" width="310" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The website, <a href="https://www.mystorybook.com/">my storybook.com</a>, is a user-friendly site for teachers to create short stories in the target language for students. In fact, it is so easy to use, that you may want to consider it for substitute plans when you need to be absent from school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the left is the cover of a short story that I wrote for my Spanish 1 students after 4 days of class and a 4-day Labor Day weekend. It contains many repetitions of <i>quiere, tiene, está, hay, </i>and other high frequency words. Click on the link "<a href="https://www.mystorybook.com/books/767458/">Paco quiere un mono</a>" to view the storybook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After creating the story, you will need to publish it in order to be able to share it. Sharing is as simple as copying the URL as well as sharing it on social media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After adding text to the story page, you can change the font, the size of the font, where it is positioned on the page, the color, background color, and more. One thing to remember when using special characters in the text, is you will need to return to the text box from the icon on the left because you can't add accents and other special characters when you are typing on the storybook page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creating the characters is fun because you can change the hairstyle, the color of hair and skin, the eye color and expressions, the mouth, the clothing color and style, the pants color and style, and the shoes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The options are somewhat limited but it still allows for creativity without providing too many choices that you are overwhelmed with the choices. (It would be nice if there were more than one hairstyle choice for the female characters.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are outdoor background scenes in a forest, city, beach, etc, and several indoor choices too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(After putting the characters on the background scene of the forest, it reminded me of the story I use from Martina Bex named "<i>La muchacha y la ardilla." </i>I'm considering using this website to illustrate the story that my students create when we do this unit OR creating a parallel story with illustrations for them to read AFTER they create their story.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At present, it is a free website, but as we know, that could change in the future as it grows and includes more choices. If you want an ebook download and a pdf of your story, the charge is $5.00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd love it, if after reading this, you create a story, and then share it with me on Twitter: @sonrisadelcampo 😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-32601176249091677892019-08-29T20:34:00.001-04:002019-08-29T20:34:37.818-04:00First Days of School (Back) in the Spanish 1 Classroom<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been 7 years since I taught Spanish 1, but I'm happy to report that I'm back in the Spanish 1 classroom and enjoying the newness of the language to the students and the way they are soaking it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year I asked my administrators if I could teach a few level 1 classes again to revisit the curriculum. They obliged me and for the fall semester I have three Spanish 1 classes and one Spanish 4 class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I searched for and found my old lesson plans on my computer, and I was obvious they needed some serious updating. I pulled a little something from here, an idea from there, and voila, the first four days went 10x smoother than I could have hoped for. It went so well, in fact, that even though I haven't been documenting much on my blog in the last year or so, I felt I had to share in case the lessons may be useful to others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following is a summary of my plans for 70 minute classes for Spanish 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Explained call back: <span style="color: blue;">Hola Hola Inca Kola</span> (idea from Annabelle Williamson)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. On construction paper, students wrote their name and something they want</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Teacher questions in Spanish and students answers in English or si or no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I questioned a few students about their cards, asking them what they want, showing it to the class, asking if they already have that item, which other students have that item, how many/much of the item they want, etc'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In the first class, I started with a student that had drawn the money symbol. Just as in normal conversation, the student's answer led to another question, followed by another answer, which took us in another direction, and on and on it went. I only discussed the information on 3 students' cards because the questions and answers flowed so easily and the students were engaged. At least one student in the other classes also drew money so I asked similar questions in those classes too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Keeping the conversation in Spanish involved framing my questions with cognates, writing key words in Spanish & English on the board, pointing and pausing at the question words, sketching, clarifying, comprehension checks, and all the other tricks we have to remain in the Target Language while still be comprehensible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The conversation allowed for many repetitions in context of the words: <span style="color: blue;">quiere(s), </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">tiene(s), es, está PLUS interrogatives</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1. Chatted about Day 1, the first day of school, for 10. Once again, it was in the TL. I asked students what classes they have, recycling <span style="color: blue;">tiene </span><i>(has), </i>which class in their opinion will be the easiest or the most difficult, who the teachers were, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">2. I asked students to READ the sentences we wrote yesterday and I wrote them on the board. We reviewed the information in the sentences but other information that we talked about yesterday but did not include in the written sentences, we READ the sentences in English, asked students "which word means X", </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">3. Discussed a few other student cards <span style="color: blue;">(quiere)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">5. I used SpanishPlan's powerpoint story "El niño quiere un dragón" for PictureTalk. <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/First-Day-of-Spanish-Class-Lesson-4817196">HERE</a></span></b> is the </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">free</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> download on TPT. More recycling of the words <span style="color: blue;">quiere, tiene, está </span>and introduced <span style="color: blue;">dice</span>. We read each of the slides except the last one. I saved the surprise ending for tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1. <b>Staying in the target language</b> is definitely doable if you are committed to slowing your speech, adjusting your language and vocabulary for the level of students, pointing and PAUSING - do not forget the pausing please; writing words in Spanish and English, short verbal clarifications/comprehension checks; </span></span></div>
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Señora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-74936435972203711972019-07-20T07:34:00.001-04:002019-07-20T11:42:51.151-04:00One Word Images & ChatterPIX PLUS App Smashing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5898729898073581154" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stumbled across an app earlier this year that when combined with One Word Images (OWI were originally created by Ben Slavic. Read about & watch a video of a OWI on <a href="https://mygenerationofpolyglots.com/2016/12/07/wafflina-an-invisibles-spanish-1-lesson/">Mike Peto's Blog</a>) will provide various possibilities for World Language teachers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The app is called ChatterPix and it is available for IOS devices AND Android devices. Better yet, it is FREE! As soon as I saw the app I couldn't wait to add it to my presentation<b> "Make Technology Count in the CI Classroom" </b>for #iFLT19 in St. Petersburg, Florida, to share it with other world language teachers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ChatterPIX app allows you to upload a photo, draw a line for a mouth on a person or on any object that is in the photo, and then you record your voice and the "mouth" moves as you are recording.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the right is a photo of the OWI my Spanish class created. To summarize, Mahe is an umbrella that is afraid of rain and has a friend that is a sponge. (If you're wondering how did we decide on a name such as Mahe; students couldn't agree on a name so I asked four students to tell me a letter of the alphabet and from those letters I created the name Mahe. 😂)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- teacher creates the recording for students to access for additional input</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- teacher creates the recording with a few changes to the details/story; students find the differences between the recording and the original class story</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- students create a recording as if they were the object; summarize information about the object</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In general, students can use ChatterPIX for presentational mode, especially for students that don't want to have their own photo on the end product. The finished products can be uploaded to your school's LMS (Learning Management System, such as Schoology, Canva, Edmodo, etc.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- students draw a character from a novel the class is reading and record as if the students are the character; what are his/her thoughts on what is happening?; what does he/she hope does/doesn't happen?; how does s/he feel?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- choose a painting and have the painting tell what is represents (great for art "units")</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- teacher uses photo and records a voice; students decide if what the person or object says is logical or illogical in reference to what is happening in the photo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- students create a comic strip and upload it to a powerpoint or googleslides; make characters talk with ChatterPIX</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5898729898073581154" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below is an example that MadameMoran tweeted which uses ChatterPIX. (#greatmindsthinkalike) 😊</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5898729898073581154" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Presentational Mode (writing, speaking, visually representing) Next...to app smash with <a href="https://twitter.com/Flipgrid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Flipgrid</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/langchat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#langchat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyBoatright?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmilyBoatright</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ptyut1999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ptyut1999</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MadameDarlis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MadameDarlis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/gadoeworldlang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gadoeworldlang</a> <a href="https://t.co/j9g5VvKnHN">pic.twitter.com/j9g5VvKnHN</a></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5898729898073581154" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>— Madame Moran (@AlisonM19365957) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlisonM19365957/status/1152338107485839365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to step into App Smashing, try combining a app or website that removes the background in photos of people (and objects if you're willing to pay extra or do extra detailed work), then add a new background for the people in the photo, and make either the people talk with ChatterPIX or pick an object in the photo to talk TO the people. (Thanks to Krista Kovalchick for permission to use the photo with her and me.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Upload the photo to removebg.com and remove the background. Download the photo from the <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://removebg.com/">removebg.com</a></span></b> website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Learning about Classmates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Review a Novel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Predictions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Storytelling and TPRS Stories</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, I received a message from Kara Jacobs of <a href="http://www.ceauthres.com/" target="_blank">CE Resources </a>(Check out her blog. It is a treasure trove of resources for Spanish teachers):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then Kara sent me some screenshots of several DrawSets that she had created and said if teachers could share the DrawSets with each other, it would be an excellent resource for those reading the same novels with their students. AWESOME idea, Kara!! (The answer to her question is at the end of the blog post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started experimenting with the DrawSets features with sentences from novels. I chose the Frida Kahlo novel written by Kristy Placido (find it at <a href="https://fluencymatters.com/product/frida-kahlo-reader/" target="_blank">Fluency Matters</a>) because I read that with my Sp4 students. These are the steps to create a DrawSet and how to use it with students:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. On the home page of CHARLALA, on the left column click on DrawRoom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Click on Create New DrawSet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Type your title. I haven't figured out how to <u>edit the title</u> of the DrawSet after the DrawSet has been created, so be mindful of the exact title you want for your DrawSet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Add the terms (words) or phrases to your DrawSet. I chose 6 sentences from chapter 5 of Frida Kahlo when Frida and her dad are walking in the park, her dad has an epileptic attack, a boy sees Frida occupied with helping her dad and tries to steal her father's camera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Click on Start DrawRoom. I opened the DrawSet for "students" <span style="font-size: x-small;">(in quotations because I was experimenting at home with several devices, but I will refer to the devices as students. In two days I am going to use this feature with students at school but until then I'll use the examples and screenshots from my devices I used at home).</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Choose "Game", adjust settings for time, music, choose which set you want to use on the drop down menu (only after you have created DrawSets), then click on START.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. The screen will display the following message (website and code to enter) and students enter the DrawRoom using the code.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. After students have entered the DrawRoom, click on START.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. The students screen will display one of the terms or one of the phrases that the teacher created in the DrawRoom. (see screenshot below). The student needs to draw the term or phrase and then click on FINISH to send it to the teacher and enter it in the sketches that will be shown in the game. Some students will receive the same term/phrase which is not a problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. The teacher can end the ability for students to draw at any time. If your students are taking a long time to draw, you decide how much time you give them to draw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. The teacher then starts the game. The teacher's screen will display one of the sketches and the students' screens will display several choices and the students match the term/phrase to the sketch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. Students receive points for correctly matching the term/phrase to the sketch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13. When you end the game, you have the opportunity to download as many of the student sketches as you want. <b>How COOL is that?</b> After downloading the sketches, you can use them as a review the following class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To answer Kara's questions, I emailed Chris, the creator of Charlala, and he said the ability to share DrawSets with other teachers is something they will add in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How is it possible that this website keeps getting better and better? </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>THANK YOU, Chris!</b></span></div>
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