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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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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, 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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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Story-Mapping and Comprehension

Story- and character-mapping are techniques I use a lot with my students. We've done it to track how a Roman play works and what...

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Jul 19, 20201 min read

I presented at SCOLT!

If you didn't get a chance to come by, here are my presentation materials. the PowerPoint I showed the handout that goes with it

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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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Jul 19, 20202 min read

(Pre-)reading Without Words

Many of us use gestures or hand signs of some variety to associate with vocabulary words. I've been thinking a lot recently about the...

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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, 20202 min read

Encountering a text - reading variation

My IIs have been finishing up Petronius' versipellis story - we divided it into three chapters. We've done a lot of prereading activities...

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May 28, 20203 min read

FVR, an update

I completely revamped my classroom this year - look out for a post on flexible seating - and that's meant revamping FVR a little, too. In...

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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, 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, 20203 min read

Blind Retell

This activity is based loosely on Betsy Paskvan's awesome Blind Retell. I like to do this after a Movie Talk because it provides an image...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Visualizing Stories

If I had a superpower, it would be this: I'd love to be able to hold out my hand and just project at will, in the air, images or videos...

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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, 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, 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

Using Synonyms to Understand a Text

I don't know under what skill we might file this (speaking? circumlocution? summarizing? understanding a reading? all or none of the...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Popcorn Reading

This is something that's been running around our county a lot, and I'd love to give credit where it's due, but I can't remember where it...

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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