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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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May 28, 20207 min read

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...

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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

Dear Abby

One of my classes and I have been spending time on you should, also known as jussive subjunctives. They've been proposing things for each...

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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, 20203 min read

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...

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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, 20202 min read

Tables and Chairs

I am in the process of acquiring folding round tables. Last year I decided to get rid of my desks and was very happy with the decision....

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May 28, 20202 min read

Parent Communication

I like to communicate with the parents of my students not just when I'm concerned or am informing them of an event of some variety (test,...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Posters For Your Walls

Anyone who has known me for a decent amount of time will be able to tell you pretty quickly that I can't draw. Really at all. All my...

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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, 20203 min read

They Really Don't Notice (grammar)

One of the big questions that always comes up for people new to the idea of CI (and, if we're being honest, probably to the people who do...

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May 28, 20203 min read

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,...

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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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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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May 28, 20203 min read

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'...

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May 28, 20203 min read

(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...

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May 28, 20203 min read

On Untextbooking

I've been doing an experiment for the last couple years, and so far, I'm finding that it's working - not only for me, but also for my...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Sitting in a CI Classroom

As teachers, we don't often have the opportunity to sit in CI classrooms as students where the language being taught is one we don't...

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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