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August 2008

by Scotton Sunday, August 31, 2008 in articles tagged , , , , ,

Teaching the Colors

I know that there are lots of ways to teach the colors but the following technique has worked really well for me over the past few years and I thought that I would share it. I’m sure that I didn’t invent the wheel here, but it is something that just developed rather than my reading about it somewhere.

I teach the colors on Kindergarten Day over a period of a few weeks using books. Any series of simple children’s books that emphasize color will do, but my favorite is the series from Alan Rogers: Red Rhinoceros, Yellow Hippo, Green Bear, and Blue Turtle (I don’t know if those are the real titles or not, I just translated them from the Spanish).

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by Scotton Saturday, August 16, 2008 in articles tagged , , , ,

Starting Day 1 in the Target Language

As good language teachers, we all know the more we stay in the target language, the better it is for our students. We know that immersion is the best way to learn a language and want to recreate as much of that “immersion” atmosphere as possible inside of our classroom.

For most of us, it’s not a problem for levels 2 and above, but what about level 1. How can you start day one in the target language with level 1 students? That’s the topic of this post.

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by Scotton Saturday, August 2, 2008 in featured

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