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THE COMPREHENSIBILIBUDDY

WELCOME TO THE COMPREHENSIBILI-BUDDY

Naturally Curious

Welcome to The Comprehensibili-buddy, a buddy on your journey to comprehensibly and compellingly teach, learn, and ultimately grow in your language exploration. I'm Arianne Belzer-Carroll, a high school Latin teacher and novella writer in Georgia. I'm excited you're along for the ride. Contact me below with questions or requests, scroll down for the blog/teaching posts, or check out other pages for snippets of novellas, free materials, the web series Bene Narras, and digital licenses of my books.

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Aug 28, 20203 min read

Robots and Humans

My fourth period has somewhat facetious started referring to themselves as team robot and team human. Groups (and games!) are hard these...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

More Charades: Silent Sentence Acting

I love this. I've done it at every level, the sentences are sometimes a mess, the whole thing is hilarious, and it helps them with the...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Spinners and Speaking

Wheelofnames.com is one of my favorite websites. You can customize what items are on the wheel (and the colors, if that's your jam. it is...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Vocab Review, Silly Questions, and a Die

Be warned - this is high output, but you could probably modify it down if you wanted them to be producing less unscaffolded language. I...

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Jul 19, 20201 min read

Four Things You Can Do With a Bell

I have a small metal bell. It was given to me my first year of teaching by our then-county foreign language coordinator, and it's one of...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Practicing Indirect Statement

Indirect statements can be tough for the kids to get a hang of - it requires verb shifts and an interesting understanding of time...

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Tag Yourself Memes

Jul 19, 20201 min read

Tag Yourself Memes

I don't know if you've seen tag-yourself memes on facebook. In general they're pretty hilarious. Check it out: So we've done a LOT of...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Alea iacta est - vocab review

This is an extremely simple, pretty low-prep vocab review game that happens in pairs or groups. It can take five minutes or an hour, and...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Running in Circles

Running in Circles I'm not sure how I haven't shared this activity before (or maybe I have and just can't find the post!). This is a...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Uses For Small White Boards

Here are a collection of posts I've made on what to do with small white boards if you have them, plus a little extra! 1. Musical chairs:...

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May 28, 20201 min read

a very quick post about duck duck goose

We started out with anas anas anser. By the end of the game, in various classes, we had anus anus ananas, anas anas ananas, and my...

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May 28, 20201 min read

Rereading Pictionary

The kids love pictionary, and I like finding excuses to get them to read and reread without making it too obvious that that's what I'm...

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May 28, 20202 min read

A Rereading Game

Martina Bex created this gorgeous game called es posibile. I did (almost) nothing but translate it into Latin, beginning with fierine...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Mettius Fufetius

Mettius Fufetius is a re-do of the Spanish game Pancho Comancho. In Pancho Comancho, five or so students are called to the front of the...

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May 28, 20201 min read

Three Snaps

Today I was taught a game by a student. He calls it three snaps. I don't know that I would do this with my first years (at least not...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Musical Chairs

No one is too old for musical chairs. My Latin I students have recently acquired what feels to them (and probably is) like a huge amount...

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May 28, 20201 min read

Spin the Bottle

There is no kissing in this game. :) Instead, its purpose is to review a story your students have read and know well. You'll need a cheap...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Go Fish

Almost every kid I've ever met can play Go Fish (I say almost because it turns out I have one student who's never played, so there goes...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Concentration 64

I have several students who spend their lunchtimes in my room, and I like to watch them and see what games they play, either verbally or...

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May 28, 20203 min read

To The Middle - a Game

This is a group-work game that requires listening and comprehension, but little to no output from the kids. You can give them a text to...

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Arianne Belzer-Carroll

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