🧪Labs 🧪

Here you’ll find some of the things I’m playing around with in my class. They are works in progress, but I hope they can spark ideas for you!

Structured Input Bell Ringers

Using structured input heightens the likelihood that students make form-meaning connections with otherwise more difficult to process language structures. Below you will see my attempts at making bellringers for my Spanish 4 class on some more “complex” language structures”

WEIRD Day

In my Spanish classes, sometimes I will use the Pop-Up “WEIRD” to point out when we use the subjunctive. WEIRD stands for Wish/Want; Emotion; Impersonal Expressions; Request/Recommendation; Doubt/Denial.

We use Subjunctive to give opinions, express what we want of/for others, and including these phrases helps students push their writing to the next level.

In each unit, before the final writing assessment we do WEIRD day. I put this slide on the board, and I hang 5 posters around the room. Students use the sentence starters to give opinions about the content of the unit, and read others’ opinions to see if they can save any of the sentences for their writing.