Talk about compelling reading! As you may know, I have begun to learn and teach Latin at the request of my grown daughter. And I am learning it the way I advise world language teachers to teach: with comprehensible input. I have been reading books in Latin that are [...]
If you teach heritage speakers, Spanish 3, 4, 5, or AP Spanish, you need to get this book into your students' hands. El libro salvaje, by Juan Villoro, was published in Mexico and has been around for some time, but Spanish teachers in the United States may not be [...]
If you have done a project like this with your students, please add your advice to the comment section below. Funding a classroom library can be challenging. Here are some ways to do that: While you are waiting for your funds to come in, take a look at the [...]
(This article was originally published in the International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (IJFLT), Summer, 2005 edition under the title Another Win for Harry Potter: More Evidence of the Value of Free Reading. I'm still learning from this kid.) Here is the article in a pdf format. Have you [...]
We are proud to announce a new author and a new book to the brycehedstrom.com line-up of quality independent authors. Ben Lev (see his page here) is from northern California and has taught students from kindergarten through college for more than 30 years. He has a new book for [...]
It's here! I have been working on this book for a year and a half, (well, actually, my whole career). And it's finally done. This is the best of what I teach teachers. It is some of the best work I have ever written, a distillation of all my [...]