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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

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, 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

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, 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, 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, 20201 min read

An activity for new vocabulary

This is not something I would do with a class that doesn't have a good sense of humor. I wanted to introduce several new vocabulary words...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Angeli et Diaboli

I got this years ago from a workshop with Jason Fritze. It's the Peruvian (?! Jason, correct me!) version of tag, I think. I own several...

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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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Oh, no! Poor Joe!

May 28, 20202 min read

Oh, no! Poor Joe!

There's a great scene in the movie Dave (Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, if you've never seen it, there are your weekend plans; you're...

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May 28, 20201 min read

Three Snaps

Today I was taught a game by a student. He calls it three snaps. I don't know that I would do this with my first years (at least not...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Musical Chairs

No one is too old for musical chairs. My Latin I students have recently acquired what feels to them (and probably is) like a huge amount...

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May 28, 20202 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Concentration 64

I have several students who spend their lunchtimes in my room, and I like to watch them and see what games they play, either verbally or...

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May 28, 20203 min read

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...

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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

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