Dan- That was awsome. I still have a few kids who tell me that they can't circumlocute and are shy about participating. This will really help them. Andrew- Last year, someone on on the listserve created a list of useful circumlocution starters. I made them bigger, printed them out on colorful cardstock, and have put them around my room. I teach different levels, so some are a little more advanced, but you could easily sort out the more advanced ones only post the simple ones for now, then add others as the year goes on. If I were to do it again, I would use different colors for easy, med and adv ones. You could also do a lesson with one, where they practice it first, then add it to the wall. Not all of the kids use these yet, but I have seen many kids looking around and using some of them when they are stuck. I have attached the document On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Call Daniel <dcall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Drew, > > I taught circumlocution strategies to my students a couple of weeks ago, > and it went fairly well. I put together this prezi that you’d be welcome > to use. It sets them up with some basic categories for circumlocution, and > then gives them the chance to practice, first with a script, then without. > Hope this helps out. > > http://prezi.com/c9sz0hgigl0e/la-circunlocucion/#<http://prezi.com/c9sz0hgigl0e/la-circunlocucion/> > > > > Dan Call > > Franklin Pierce High School > > > > *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On > Behalf Of *Andrew Van Wagenen > *Sent:* Saturday, November 02, 2013 1:53 PM > *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [ola] Teaching words/phrases for circumlocution and for > staying in spanish. > > > > Hello all, > > > > As a first year teacher and also my first year implementing OLA I'm > fighting an uphill battle of having the expectation that my Span 1 and Span > 2 classes stay in Spanish for 90 minutes. I want to give them some more > tools/strategies to help them stay in Spanish. Does anyone have any > positive ways to support kids speaking spanish or any phrases or ways of > teaching circumlocution so they just don't blurt out things in Spanish. > > > > Is requiring 90 minutes of Spanish from YR 1 students too much? What has > been other's experiences. With participation and language use being 40% of > their grade I feel like i'm constantly having negative interaction with > kids because i'm docking them points for using english in class. > > > > Responses can be sent to andrew.vanwagenen@xxxxxxxxx Thanks everyone! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Drew > > -- > > > *Andrew Van Wagenen * > Profesor de Español > > Department of World Languages > > Corner Canyon High School > > > > andrew.vanwagenen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > andrewvanwagenen.blogspot.com >
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