Last April I attended a Bryce Hedstrom workshop and it was nothing short of mind-blowing, as he presented one amazing comprehensible input strategy after another. When the day ended, my mind was pulsating with new ideas for my classroom, but there was one idea in particular that screamed at me to give it a try: Free Voluntary Reading. For those of … [Read more...] about Experimenting with Free Voluntary Reading: First Semester Reflections
K-5 Spanish
Taking The Dive Into CI
The Countdown As the school year quickly winds down, I can’t help but look forward to the next one with much anticipation and excitement. Yeah, it sounds crazy I know, because so many of us are beyond exhausted, expending our energy to motivate apathetic students who have been bitten by the Spring Fever bug and the Senior Slide virus. While I … [Read more...] about Taking The Dive Into CI
Origin of Puerto Ricans
Here is a neat graphic organizer that I received in one of my graduate classes sometime during the 1990s. It illustrates the ancestry of the three major blood lines which form the Puerto Rican race : Taino Indian, Spanish and Black. Origin of Puerto Ricans When Christopher Columbus reached Puerto Rico in 1493, he encountered and enslaved the Taino … [Read more...] about Origin of Puerto Ricans