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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 94: End-of-Year Card Talk: Plus a Low Prep Reading Activity and Gallery Walk
Are you looking for an interactive and engaging activity to boost your students' participation and build a strong classroom community at the end of the school year? In this episode of "Growing With Proficiency, the podcast," we explore a unique twist on the popular Card Talk activity that my students absolutely loved!
In this activity, I’ll share with you how to turn the simple drawings our students do in card talk into a pair-reading activity plus a gallery walk.
Main Highlights:
- Introduction to Card Talk and its benefits for student engagement and comprehensible input.
- Detailed activity setup with the prompt: "The Best and the Worst in the School Year."
- Step-by-step process from drawing, writing, hallway gallery walk, and class discussion.
- Personal connection and community building through shared experiences.
- Extending Card Talk: Ideas for adapting Card Talk for different thematic units such as clothing, food, and travel.
Resources and Links Mentioned:
- Free Teacher Guide: "How to Shift to A Comprehensible and Communicative Teaching Approach" – growingwithproficiency.com/guide
- Episode 82: Previous discussion on Card Talk with Ben Fisher
- Follow Claudia on Instagram: @claudiamelliott
- Connect on Facebook: Claudia M Elliott
- Join our waitlist for Growing With Proficiency The Spanish Teacher Academy
Thank you for tuning in to "Growing With Proficiency, the podcast." Until next time, keep growing and keep teaching with passion. ¡Hasta luego!
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