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    • During Reading Activities: Create Novelty with Simple Adjustments
    • Post Reading Activities: Reading Reps on the Path to Mastery of a Text.
    • Language Tasks: Data Processing in the Target Language.
  • Self Directed Reading: My take on Free Voluntary Reading
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Communicative Context

Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Kyleene Beers & Robert E. Probst Review

26 Jul 202626 Jul 2026
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Communicative Context

Vocabulary Index Card Deck

18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026
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Communicative Context

Piso et Syra et potiones mysticae

7 Jul 2026
Two friends attempt to figure out each other as one claims to have a secret. Is it a joke? Although Piso et Syra et potiones mysticae contains numerous cognates, there…
vocabulary activities

Vocabulary Theme Groups: Build connection to classmates, vocabulary words and other mental representations of meaning.

1 Oct 20231 Oct 2023
What is the community context in each individual classroom? How can an instructor leverage community context to increase students' engagement with input throughout language study? Students will yearn for social…
Novice - Level B

Mercurius Omnia Furatur by John Foulk Level B Reader Review

12 Jul 202313 Jul 2023
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Best Practices

Power in progress: Connect students to themselves through progress monitoring of vocabulary knowledge.

22 Jun 2023
A mistake I made often early in my language teaching career was to hold the mindset that I set the content, pace and vocabulary that students will learn. It took…
Communicative Context

Switch it up: Find purpose in monitoring reading pace

29 Apr 2023
Two things seem extremely clear. The more students read, the more language they acquire. But many students do not like to read. There are a variety of reasons for this,…
Reading Activities…

Crazy Professor Reading: Dig Deeper into a text with a Role-play style Reading

16 Jan 2022
This activity is a part of a series about low prep activities to decrease teaching intensity. As the semester came to a close, I was looking for novel ways to…
vocabulary activities

Collaborative Brainstorm: Connecting word roots and endings

11 Jan 2022
Find more low prep activities at this page periodically. Perhaps there is a better name than collaborative brainstorm. Here are instructions for a vocabulary activity that will: Quickly arrange students…
Novice - Level C

Coronis: A Novice High Version of Apollo and Tragic Love loosely based on Ovid’s Version.

6 Jul 2021
Level C books are around the novice high range.  Other titles in level C are: Lucia Puella Mala– Follow Lucia throughout her escapades around her Roman house and family. Pluto: …

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Comprehensible Input Activities

  • Vocabulary Activities: Initial interactions with input.
  • Pre-Reading Activities: Focus their attention on a text before approaching it.
  • During Reading Activities: Create Novelty with Simple Adjustments
    • Self Directed Reading: My take on Free Voluntary Reading
  • Post Reading Activities: Reading Reps on the Path to Mastery of a Text.
  • Language Tasks: Data Processing in the Target Language.
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