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Let’s have a tea party!

A tea party is an interactive experience and the perfect way to hook your students on any novel, show or story that has several characters before beginning to read (or watch) it. I first learned about doing a tea party from Rita Barrett at AATSP and was charmed off the bat, as I’m sure youContinue reading “Let’s have a tea party!”

¡AI-yúdame! Snorkl – (for feedback on speaking and thinking)

If you’re like me, you do informal assessing all the time, but the formal not so much. Students respond chorally in Spanish, interact in pairs and small groups, but seldom get that one on one attention and feedback in a large class setting. My Spanish 2 classes are usually 30 kids, and even one ofContinue reading “¡AI-yúdame! Snorkl – (for feedback on speaking and thinking)”