By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 17 May 2017 21:31:02 +0000

I used a set of the La Llorona booklets with the teacher guide for teaching my first Spanish class ever. Students had minimal Spanish, and I had barely more than they did. We followed standard TPRS vocabulary and structure introduction for each part, PQA and a little bit of parallel story-asking. Then we read the stories, sticking mostly to Bryce’s excellent advice in the teacher’s guide (from TPR to acting and writing ideas). Because we started from nearly zero, and our classes were only 20 minutes, three days a week, it took us two months until we read the last version. But wow! The students were able to retell the major points, answer multiple questions, and read the last version fluently. For a final moment, I pulled out their vocabulary pretest from the front of the teacher guide, and they knew all but one word (agarra). They couldn’t believe their growth. Reading La Llorona gave the students confidence to read other sources in Spanish, and it gave me, the teacher, the certainty that students would acquire language with the right materials.

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By: Michele