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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

Readalong week 2

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)...

Aug 30, 20206 min read

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A read along! The beginning.

I've never done a readalong before! I've also never Officially Taught a novella before. (quam horrificum!) I've read them with my class...

Aug 30, 20206 min read

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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...

Jul 19, 20202 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...

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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Tag Yourself Memes

Tag Yourself Memes

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...

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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(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...

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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You and I

One of the things my kids struggle with is you and I, particularly in the perfect tense. This year I've decided to spend a lot of time on...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Past Tense Again

I generally hold off on the past tense until the second year to give the kids some real time to get comfortable with the present. I use...

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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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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...

May 28, 20203 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...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Cobbled Sentences

This is an activity I love to do, but it's important to be very careful about how we do it lest it either a. make so little sense as to...

May 28, 20202 min read

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A quick and dirty guide to telling a story

Story-telling was one of the hardest things for me to start to get good at. I spent my first two years shoving twenty-four words into a...

May 28, 20207 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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

For the last several years, I've been using a translation technique to teach the imperfect and perfect tenses. Because they have...

May 28, 20203 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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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I don't have a catchy name for this game at all

I do not have a catchy name for this. If you have one, tell me. You can really use this for whatever you want, but I like to use it for...

May 28, 20203 min read

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What's CI?

It occurs to me that I forgot to gloss this, and that's silly. CI is Comprehensible Input. It is the theory of presenting understandable,...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Embedded Stories

There have so often been stories I wanted my students to read that were simply above their heads. The most recent example is Catullus'...

May 28, 20203 min read

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(Sometimes) Silent Sustained Reading

It's hard to do free voluntary reading in a classroom because it can't really be voluntary. You're telling them to read. And it can only...

May 28, 20203 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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