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Readalong week 2
Still not reading yet - it'll probably be another week or two, we're still in the thematic set up (plus also catching up from february)...
Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
Aug 28, 20203 min read
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Scene Charades
Warning: some prep (though not a huge amount) involved. I love charades. It's great for discrete vocab rehearsal, it's funny, and it gets...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20201 min read
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Fishbowl/Socratic Discussions in a FL Class
Socratic seminars have become a big thing in English classes, and they go a long way towards fostering discussion in a structured way....
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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A variation on read-and-draw with a gallery walk
My kids got a new text this week. I wanted them to read and visualize it together, as well as get in a few reps, and both have the...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Uses For OWATS
OWATs - or One Word at a Time stories - are the brainchild of Bob Patrick. Essentially, their purpose is to allow students to be creative...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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QR Scavenger Hunt
I read the excellent Keith Toda's version of this and was inspired to try my own. Essentially, you create QR codes with information and...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Collective Interview
I began with an idea from Martina Bex that can be found here. A collective interview is a set of questions given to a group that is asked...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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O Captain, My Captain
I got this idea from a department meeting and then tweaked it a little. Because we're talking about monsters in Latin I, we spent...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Rereading Activities
In reading and re-reading stories, I'm constantly looking for ways for students to employ their creativity along with their understanding...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Read and Draw
This is a summarization technique that I use with some regularity to great effect. I am fortunate to own ten giant white boards (which...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Summarization
I was at an immersion program this summer, and I was playing an ongoing game with a good friend of mine from Australia. One of us would...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Show and Tell
There's been a lot of discussion on Ben Slavic's PLC about games not really promoting CI, and that's pretty true. A lot of games do not...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20205 min read
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