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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Level I Expectations

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

This is from Ben Lev, Spanish teacher at the Reach School in Sebastopol, California (the San Francisco area) .  It gives a good framework for describing not only WHAT students should know and …

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VERIFYING READING

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

When we assign reading to students there is always a nagging suspicion that some of them will be fudging their answers when it comes to reporting what and how much they …

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Spanish III Light Reading Backlash

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

Some of my Spanish III students are upset about their Light Reading assignments (available on the Free Stuff  page of this website at: http://www.brycehedstrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/LIGHT-READING-BOOK-REPORTS.pdf).  It seems to me that their objections …

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Do It Now!

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

QUIT WAITING “I realize now that I have been wrong. All this time, I have been waiting. Waiting for what? For someone to find me? For Indians to take my horse? …

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Reading Questions

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

Here are some good reading questions from Carrie Ely, a young French teacher and PhD candidate in New York, that strike at the core of reading in a second language class.  I …

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Light Reading Surprises in Level III

Posted by Bryce Hedstrom

My level III Spanish students are surprising me with their light reading choices. All through the first two years of Spanish the students have chosen their light reading materials in typical SVR fashion, sometimes …

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