Even small gestures can have a big impact on our students—a look, a smile, a word can change a student's attitude and outlook. We can make them happy or unhappy. At the beginning of the holiday season, let's allow Charles Dickens to remind us to do this. We need [...]
Pedro writes: Hello Sr. Hedstrom, Since attending a session at a California CI workshop back in 2019, I have loved using FVR in my classroom. As a matter of fact, I am including a couple of images to show how I can have as many as 90 titles on the [...]
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 [...]
If we want student to retain vocabulary, they need to experience it over and over, not just a few times on a list or in a project. Reading does this.
'Comprehensible' and 'Interesting' nine times in kid-friendly language... Find a printable version of this post on the 'Free Stuff' page of my website, brycehedstrom.com, in the 'Reading' section.
To become fluent, students need to be reading tens of thousands of words in the target language. They need to read not just occasionally, but all the time, beginning in level 1. All of these quotes about teaching reading come from Bryce's new reading workshop. Contact him at contact@brycehedstrom.com [...]
