Comprehensible Input

I don't know about you, but special needs students are some of my favorite students to teach. But finding what works for them can be challenging. Let's talk about different strategies to help make these amazing students more successful!

Notebooks are an important part of my CI classroom. We use them daily for organization and recording of many of our daily tasks.

If you're new to comprehensible input, the transition can be scary! Many of us dislike change and changing to the unknown can be outright terrifying. But it doesn't have to be. Let me help you get started with comprehensible input with the least stress and frustration.

Conversations are the first step in the Immediate Immersion Way. They are a way to get to know your students and build solid student relationships through the target language.

Parents sing and talk to their babies about the world around them. They keep vocabulary simple, but they don't shelter their grammar. They use whatever grammar is necessary to communicate their message. This is how they acquire the language, the vocabulary, and the grammar in context.

3-2-1 Reading is a variation of whole-class reading that slowly scaffolds reading as students go from whole-group reading to paired reading and finally to independent reading.