Digital Slides for your CI classroom
Don't know enough about pop-culture to know what will make compelling input?
Ask your students for ideas of people they love, and people they love to hate, then use those people in your stories, warm ups, and other activities.
9 versions to choose from.
Classroom Norms slides
Clear expectations are the backbone of a well-run classroom.
Consider using these slides to set and reinforce behavior expectations.
Download the 12 slides here (6 French, 6 Spanish)
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Grab n Go slides
These slides are intended to support CI/TPRS teachers in lesson planning.
Grab the slides and use “as is” for:
●Part of your opening or closing routine
●Transition to the next activity
●To fill in those empty 5 min when something else doesn’t go as planned
→ Remember to focus on INPUT (not output)
ProTip: make a copy to edit the slides to fit your language, level or context
Sample Activities
Consider how you might use or adapt activities like these as:
a Do Now / Warm up
Exit Ticket
a Partner Activity in the middle of class
a part of a Sub Plan for when you are absent
to build understanding and buy in from your students, access the deck of 6 slides
Logical? Not Logical?
Like True False, but more interesting to debate.
Click through the deck to see answers fly in.
NOTE: if you are not nerdy enough to use Dr Spock (ACK! It's miss spelled in the slide!), take out the picture and just call it "Logique, Pas Logique"
NOTE: having students say "logical" or "illogical" is too hard to hear the difference from the front of class. Have them say and write "logical" or "not logical"
TPR Gesture "quiz"
3 different versions
Obviously, you do this in the target language IN A DIFFERENT ORDER than the lists of pictures in the slide.
Variation 1: Teacher speaks, students write the number on a 1/4 sheet of paper.
Variation 2: Sentences are written out, students match word/phrase to letter. This works well for a paired activity or sub plan.
6 frame story illustration
Variation 1: using a blank table, dictate the sentences in each box, then have students illustrate.
Variation 2: using a blank table, have pairs of students summarize a chapter of a novel or class story, then trade papers with another pair of students and illustrate.
Variation 3: try this outside with sidewalk chalk from the dollar store!
Identify, Order, Illustrate
1. Read 12 statements from a chapter of Brandon Brown Wants a Dog (or other class novel or reading), only 6 of which are true.
2. Cross out the false statements.
3. Put the 6 true statements in order in the 6 frame comic.
4. Illustrate the sentences.
PROTIP: based on this example, create your own activity using a novel your class is reading, OR have STUDENTS create one.
PROTIP 2: this is a good activity for a Sub-Plan when teacher is absent.
Features of Culture Worksheet.docxFeatures of Culture note catcher
A note catcher for students to use with any film-- great for a sub plan :)
Slides with TPR gesture gifs
DPS Teachers click here to access the full slide deck
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All other teachers click here to access the abbreviated slide deck of high frequency words
WE love our languages that we teach, but do our STUDENTS?
Greeting new students, especially new 6th graders, new 9th graders and new level 1 students (whatever their grade level) face to face is an important time to build interest and buy-in for WHY students should want to learn a new language.
If you are a teacher who does a daily Do Now / warm up, you may wonder what to have your students (especially your Novice Low / Level 1 students ) do... because they have no language yet.