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Continue reading →: Honoring a variety of identities and amplifying #OwnVoices in our class storiesWhen I started using Story Listening (SL) on a regular basis to provide rich language in context to my Novice learners, I heavily relied on Grimm tales, Aesop fables, and children stories with personified animal characters. And so, while the rest of my curriculum had been steadily providing more and…
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Continue reading →: Teaching in the age of a pandemic — part 1: keeping my sanityI have been back at school for two weeks and I am so excited to be in the classroom again! In order to create the safest conditions possible for students to be on campus, my new school has created an elaborate A/B hybrid schedule where we see cohort A in…
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Continue reading →: Five creative student products involving booksThis quick post contains 5 low-prep end-of-year ideas for your students to unleash their creativity… and they all involve books! 1. Book comes to life Have you seen these covers of famous artworks? Ask your students to do the same with a book! You can do it two ways: If…
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Continue reading →: Make reading accessible for all with an “Alice” or “Alicia” Graphic Novel PackageI released a graphic novel version of “Alice” for language learners, offering various tools for teachers and students to use in the classroom or online. The package includes colorful illustrations, recorded narrations, and printable resources.
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Continue reading →: “Camille”, the third and final installment of the “Alice” seriesFOR FREE RESOURCES, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST. Welcome to the third and final installment of the “Alice” series! SYNOPSIS “When Camille finds out her beloved dance teacher, choreographer, and studio owner is leaving, she is worried about her future. She fears that Studio Pineapple, where…
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Continue reading →: All my books are now available as eBooksI love holding books, I am kind of old fashioned like that. I personally never warmed up to eBooks. My 5th grade daughter however can easily switch from her Kindle to a tablet, and then to a paper back. And she seems to enjoy all these formats equally! So, no…
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Continue reading →: Why there won’t be a Costa Rican version of my French book “Khadra”As a French teacher, I often feel defeated when I see SOME language readers being poorly adapted from Spanish to French: same story but transposed to a francophone region with little research, misrepresentation of the communities in that region, and/or language convention or grammatical errors. So, after writing my first…
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Continue reading →: What’s on your shelves?In 2017, I created Diversify Your Bookshelf, a small Facebook group where parents, librarians and educators exchange about children books. I wanted to share my passion for books and connect with other adults who are committed to increasing the amount of mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors for their kids…
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Continue reading →: Digging for gold: 4 tips to get the most out of Comprehensible OnlineComprehensible Online 2020 is now open until May 17. With so many sessions to choose from, here are 3 quick tips that helped me dig for gold last year! #1 Go for topics YOU WANT TO GROW IN FIRST Last year, I was really interested in expanding my reading program…
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Continue reading →: Increasing LGBTQIA+ representation, visibility, and sense of belonging in my language classroomOne year not too long ago, I decided to take a hard look at my curriculum and increase LGBTQ+ representation, visibility, and sense of belonging. There was LGBTQ+ erasure going on at my school and I decided my classroom would be a safe space for my LGBTQ+ students to feel…
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