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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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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, 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

The Importance of Discretion. Also, an Activity on Preferences!

My ones are learning about family. In the course of learning about family every year, I sit down and have a conversation with my kiddos....

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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, 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

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

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, 20202 min read

Learning Phrases

The more locutions the kids hear over and over and have access to, the more locutions and idioms and so forth they start to add to their...

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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, 20203 min read

Locutiones Latinae

I have found in my journey in Latin speaking that the most difficult thing for me (other than, good heavens, convoluted clauses within...

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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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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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