Mrfishersays.com Website Review

Teaching, Language Acquisition, Comprehensible Input, Giggling Menu episode about Takeaways from #ACTFL18.  Ashley is such a gem for putting this podcast together – teachers need to hear from diverse perspectives to better know themselves and more de*ply know their work.  Also…she is so sweet to talk to.  Her laugh is #iconic and listening back to our conversation, I am proud to have elicited a very de*p laugh from her.  Hee hee!! I name drop like a total dweeb, but here are some of the people I mentioned and where you can find their resources: align with district-mandated thematic units.  His blog is on point, too. potato!  But also like…watch her videos and be inspired to film some of your own teaching for your benefit and the benefit of others. is a super thought-provoking look into principles of communicative language teaching.  Easy to read and full of food for thought – I Brain breaks as an idea has been showing up a lot in the Facebook groups that I follow, as well as the conferences I have been attending lately.  People are starting to catch on to how much our students sit every day!  TOO MUCH I’m finding that it’s helpful for me to build them into the lessons at natural in-between points.  These are the gear-shifting moments of a lesson – when you’re moving from input to a Write and Discuss, or between segments of input on different subjects.  This guarantees that we do them, and I can experiment with specific brain breaks to see if the kids like particular ones. Here’s one that’s been a hit recently in clas*!  Kids love competing with friends, and I get to review body parts with them.  I heard about this one while I was at the WAFLT-COFLT Bi-State Conference in Portland this October. I bought 10 stuffed an*mals the other day (at the dollar store, hollaaaaa) and have a little basket I keep them in.  Children LOVE In this game, pairs of students get a stuffed an*mal and place it between them.  The teacher then says some body parts, rapid-fire. The