Many times, when I'm faced with trying to explain what I'm doing in my class - either questioned by a colleague, an administrator, a parent, or even a student - I use the term "Comprehensible Input" and then get met with either looks of disdain - "another buzzword, another fix... why fix what ain't broke" … Continue reading CI and Me
Target Vocabulary
How to introduce the target vocabulary - those words you want the students to grasp, internalize, recognize, and use - for a class or unit varies. For many practitioners of CI, an average of 4 new words is recommended each day. These same 4 words are repeated in a variety of contexts over and over, … Continue reading Target Vocabulary
Translate, Tell, Ask
First of all, this was not my idea. A colleague of mine, Chloe Scales, learned it from a mutual professor, Dr. Andrew Becker, as a student, then applied it to her own classes as a Latin teacher, and then shared it with me. This reading strategy can be used in two different ways, with a … Continue reading Translate, Tell, Ask
Journey into New Lands: Comprehensible Input
Taking the learning of Latin from grammar charts and translation to communicative and comprehensible. After a rather rough year (2017-2018 school year), where I felt I was doing all the "right" things to teach the Latin to the students, nevertheless, the students weren't learning. No one, they or I, was having fun. Each day was … Continue reading Journey into New Lands: Comprehensible Input
Dinosaurs Speak Latin 