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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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Readalong week 2

Aug 30, 20206 min read

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)...

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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, 20203 min read

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...

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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, 20203 min read

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....

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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

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...

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May 28, 20203 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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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

Rereading Activities

In reading and re-reading stories, I'm constantly looking for ways for students to employ their creativity along with their understanding...

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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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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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May 28, 20205 min read

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...

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Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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