Novels

Shelter Vocabulary, Not Grammar

By |2025-04-17T17:59:18-06:00April 17th, 2025|

One of the shortest but most useful sayings by legendary French teacher Susan Gross, is, “Shelter vocabulary, not grammar.” It is important to teach and use verbs as vocabulary, rather than as drilled formulas. When the sound/meaning pair is different, verbs may need to be presented explicitly—but this is [...]

SPANISH TEACHERS: GET THIS BOOK

By |2025-03-14T13:57:36-06:00May 4th, 2024|

If you teach heritage speakers, or Spanish 3, 4, 5, or AP Spanish, you need to get this book into your students' hands. El libro salvaje, by Mexican author Juan Villoro, was published in Mexico and has been around since 2008, but Spanish teachers in the United States may [...]

WHAT’S WORKING

By |2024-05-01T19:07:57-06:00March 30th, 2024|

THIS IS ABOUT LATIN CLASS BUT THE ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS APPLY TO ALL WORLD LANGUAGES Last year my daughter started a classical school in Denver and asked me to teach Latin. I didn't know Latin, but I took up the challenge and decided to learn and teach it the [...]

Hi-Impact Reading Strategies

By |2021-09-15T22:04:42-06:00September 15th, 2021|

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 [...]

Reading Quote #19: Reading Novels Faster is Better

By |2020-10-29T20:13:56-06:00November 9th, 2020|

Don't drag out reading novels as a class. Find free reading materials on Storylabs, an online library for language learning. Access their free materials here: https://www.storylabs.online/freebies. The stories on Storylabs have accompanying audio, online and printable activities, as well as usage tracking so teachers can hold their students accountable. [...]

Reading Quote #12: Stories, Not Lists

By |2020-10-31T10:15:54-06:00November 2nd, 2020|

See the rest of of the insightful and stimulating reading quotes in this series here. Find free reading materials on Storylabs, an online library for language learning. Access their free materials here: https://www.storylabs.online/freebies. The stories on Storylabs have accompanying audio, online and printable activities, as well as usage tracking so [...]

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