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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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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

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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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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Re-reading Activities

I know I often want my students to simply re-read a text to get as many reps as possible. Here are a couple ways we are doing that: 1....

Jul 17, 20202 min read

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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...

May 28, 20203 min read

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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...

May 28, 20201 min read

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Some Uses for Gallery Walks

I love gallery walks - they get the kids out of their seats productively, let them move around and interact with their peers' work, and...

May 28, 20201 min read

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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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Auto-audio-dictation (a variation on a running dictation)

This year I have a high-flying Latin III student in a very, very behind Latin II class. If I thought I was going to be able to ask them...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Flexible Seating!

This is my fifth year deskless! I distinctly remember myself, a colleague, and a student carrying desks out of my room to a trailer. We...

May 28, 20204 min read

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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...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Running in Circles

Running in Circles I'm not sure how I haven't shared this activity before (or maybe I have and just can't find the post!). This is a...

May 28, 20202 min read

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A Handy-Dandy List of Brain Breaks

Brain breaks are an incredibly useful tool in the classroom, especially (god sixth period, or first period) when your kids are full or...

May 28, 20203 min read

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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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Uses For Small White Boards

Here are a collection of posts I've made on what to do with small white boards if you have them, plus a little extra! 1. Musical chairs:...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Six Things That Foreign Language Teachers Need To Do More

There are a lot of things that push us to get better as language teachers, and many of them are things we forget we can do, or forget to...

May 28, 20208 min read

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Project-Based Learning As A Performance Final

At my high school, we're required to give written and spoken performance finals in addition to our objective multiple-choice finals. I'm...

May 28, 20203 min read

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On Fidget Tools

I have a small basket of fidget tools - a couple of cubes with various sides (one that clicks, one that rolls, etc), some tubes with...

May 28, 20203 min read

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iPads!

My colleague Natalie and I came into the windfall of an iPad when my grandmother decided to update hers. She was going to get rid of it,...

May 28, 20204 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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