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Light Reading Surprises in Level III

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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Light Reading in Level I: Intensive Reading and Extensive Reading

It is amazing what our students can do if they are given the chance. Here are some more comments from our SSR/Light Reading time in Spanish I this week. Once again, …

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Light Reading Jewel: Zoo Books!

This is a continuation of the series on Light Reading successes and failures:  http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2012/light-reading-hits-spanish-i  http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2012/light-reading-misses-spanish-i    http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2012/light-reading My Spanish I students love Zoo Books.  I bought a set of Zoo Books (zoobooks.com) …

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Today’s Repasito 02/07/12, Part 2: The Results

These are the results of the Repasito/Quiz my students took today.   ANSWERS: 1.      Barack Obama, Randal Terry 2.      Joe Biden 3.      The Revolutionary War 4.      Mexico, Canada 5.      50   …

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Light Reading Misses: Spanish I

In my Spanish I classes we have worked our way up to doing sustained silent reading for 15 minutes.  We started at 3 minutes and have gradually inched our way up.  We …

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Light Reading

“Perhaps the most powerful way of encouraging children to read is to expose them to light reading, a kind of reading that schools pretend does not exist, a kind of reading …

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