TPRS Workshop Presentation 2013

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TPRS workshop

Betsy Techmanetechman@tvsd.orgSummer 2013

©Techman 2013

Going from Known to Unknown

What do you already know that I don’t need

to teach you?

Stephen Krashen says:

TPRS, Teaching Proficiency through

Reading and Storytelling is a foreign language teaching methodology based on providing ample comprehensible input, personalizing lessons to make them student-centered and teaching for mastery.

Internalization/Language acquisition

Signs/ASL

Connections

Visualizations

Establish

meaning

A story: El cuento del gato

la muchac

hael gato tiene agarra

el piso es buenoel

muchacho

esgrande

es pequeño tira llora

está contento

está triste

escapa es malo le da

Novel use PQA PMS

Establish meaning

Check for comprehensi

on

Establish Meaning and Check for Comprehension

Novel use- use the words in new ways, commands, etc.

PQA- personalized questions and answers

PMS- personal mini-situations

Keep them engaged !

Personalize everything

“Teach to the eyes”/“Feed the hungry”/”Check your barometer student”

Set the stage for dramaUse 3 locations to set your story in motion

Create a false reality

Exaggerate voice inflection

Use props/actors

BEP

Make it BIZARRE EXAGERRATED AND PERSONALIZED

Coach use of Rejoinders/How to receive a story

- Are you serious?- No way?

- How lucky!

Shelter vocab not grammar

Start out in the present tense but do not limit yourselfto the present tense. That is unnatural. Always answer when students question the patterns- ”pop-up grammar”

Think of the vocabulary of a four or five year old. Their grammar has not been sheltered. Their vocabulary is kept to an appropriate level.

Asking a story/adding details

Establish the content of the story.

Superstars retell to the class or all retell in partners to each other.

BUT THERE IS MORE TO EVERY STORY !!!

I WANT TO KNOW MORE !!

Recycle and Repeat - tips

Ask repetitive questions. Do not ask question in order. Keep recycling vocabulary with novel

questions. Follow the story asking guidelines. Keep them engaged. Create a movie in their mind. Can they see?

Ask them “Can you see it?”

The answers do not need to be logical. Repetition is at the heart of storytelling.

Story asking progression

YES/NO EITHER/OR

OPEN ENDED

Or ….CIRCLING

STORY ASKING

How old is the girl? Does she live in a house? Where is her house? Where did she get that cat? What is the cat’s name? Why is the boy so bad? Where did the cat go? Why did Monica give away her cat? Is it really a good cat or a bad cat?

Assessing Fluency

Retell the story with the details. Timed writings (8 minutes 100

words- grade on volume/flow) Writing exercises- answer the

questions Translation exercises Teach someone at home the story Illustrate the story cartoon style Podcast the story/Act out the story

Pop Up Grammar

Establish meaning of vocabulary/grammar Add content Personalize and keep them interested (BEP) Ask the details Point out the grammar Assess- check for grammar as needed

You say:“This is what I would like to see/hear as

you retell today”

From Stories to Literature

Every story has:A title

CharactersA setting

A problemA solution

Embedded Reading

© Clarcq, Whaley 2012

Top Down or Bottom Up – Success !

© Clarcq, Whaley 2012

Embedding Reading

Embedded Reading

Cortometrajes – short films

ALMA

Oktapodi

More short films….

Wildebeest

More short films….

The Beauty of a Second

See film-english for lesson plans.

Short Film Resources

Youtube

http://filminute.com

http://film-english.com/

Measuring Retention

Grading with colors (understanding mastery as the goal)

Club 100 (reading)

Old fashioned dictation (listening)

Target: Accuracy and Precision

Club 100 timed

100 words in target language – recognition

Later, 90 in target, 10 in English

Students create rubric “What is excellent?”

90-100 = Yellow 70-80 = Orange80-90 = Pink below

70 - Green

Dictation

Read in Target Language Students write what they hear Students confirm meaning with

translation Native speakers/Class visitors read Bonus offered upon request

(always !) Grade with colors (excellent, good,

etc.)

Create with Technology

Padlet (brainstorming) Educreations Googlevoice Celly Weebly (porfolios) Storybird Prezi Textivate Voicethread

Student Portfolios

Weebly Wix

Example journal entry -

Novels for all levels

Carol Gaab Kristy Placido Carrie Toth Blaine Ray Mira Canion

More treats…generate passion !

http://www.senorwooly.com/

http://www.senorjordan.com/

http://zachary-jones.com/

http://teachforjune.com/

http://daveburgess.com/

Common Core Standards

High level text-based discussions

Focus on the process not only content

Create assignments for real audiences with a real purpose

Teach argument, not persuasion Increase Text Complexity

More information?

Google:Blaine RayJason FritzeTodd McKaySusan GrossBen Slavic

Join TPRSmore

TPRS Support

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/moretprs/

Check out: www.embeddedreading.com Simplify, Scaffold, Succeed!!(L. Clarcq) Find TPRS people on Twitter, Facebook,

they and many others are there to help and share ideas.

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