by Kara Parker | Jan 10, 2013 | 4 Assessments, January, Listening, New Year's, Reading, Three Kings
How do I hold them accountable without making them translate on interpretive tasks? Oh and I also want it to be quick to make! On Monday they read two infographics about winter traditions in Hispanic countries (Día de Reyes and Año Nuevo). They did some Venn Diagrams... 
by Kara Parker | Oct 17, 2012 | Reading, Writing
Input is key to learning a language and we want to make it fun. To encourage reading, I’m always looking for what they like to read. Facebook is a big one and now I know an easy way to find what I need. Initially I “liked” the Tide Facebook page to... by Kara Parker | Oct 12, 2012 | 2 Authentic Resources, Reading, Writing
Interpersonal Writing Activity STEPS Download: Download PDF Version Download PPT Version Find and screenshot tweets that support the daily objective. Put them on a tweet sheet. Pass around the sheets for them to respond or do a gallery walk. Original post published... 
by Megan Smith | Oct 10, 2012 | Activities/Sports, Reading, Vocabulary Building
I’m always changing up how students learn new vocabulary in my class. After bouncing ideas off of Kara, this is how we are doing our “What we like to do” unit goal: I can talk about sports I like to watch and play. We watched bits and pieces several... 
by Kara Parker | Oct 9, 2012 | Reading, Vocabulary Building
I hope my last post about PowerPoints made you think about how you present vocabulary. I don’t want you to think I’m completely against Powerpoint. I did find a good use of my old vocabulary PP today based on Megan’s recent “memorizing”... 
by Kara Parker | Oct 5, 2012 | Reading, Vocabulary Building
As I began to teach the level 1 activities unit for the 15th time, I opened my Dropbox folder to look at my files. There was my PowerPoint with pictures and the vocabulary word for over twenty different activities that students like and don’t like to do....
