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November 10, 2025November 10, 2025mpeto

Reading is my superpower

October 26, 2025October 27, 2025mpeto

Presenting Wonderful People

October 13, 2025October 13, 2025mpeto

Emotional investment

October 12, 2025October 12, 2025mpeto

French Big Book of Tiny Daily Readings

October 4, 2025October 5, 2025mpeto

Eight scenes, endless stories

September 20, 2025September 23, 2025mpeto

What happens next

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025mpeto

The Cheshire Cat (first days of school)

August 31, 2025August 31, 2025mpeto

Rebuilding a Spanish Program from the Ground Up

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025mpeto

First Day Student Questionnaire

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025mpeto

The Power of the Weird Little Drawing

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025mpeto

Tiny Daily Readings

March 23, 2025March 23, 2025mpeto

Future Tense

February 1, 2025February 8, 2025mpeto

120 hours

April 15, 2024September 17, 2024mpeto

Brazilian Portuguese – Summer 2024

February 21, 2024September 17, 2024mpeto

Enjoyable new comics in German, French, Spanish and Japanese

July 19, 2023September 26, 2023mpeto

New graphic novel for beginners!

October 20, 2022February 4, 2023mpeto

The CI Master Class

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022mpeto

Caring for the whole quilt: linguistic diversity in a heritage classroom

February 14, 2022October 9, 2024mpeto

Add 100s of pages of comprehensible comics to your class library

August 24, 2021February 10, 2023mpeto

Simple, unplanned, powerful Picture Talk

August 22, 2021June 25, 2022mpeto

What makes these read-aloud stories different?

August 21, 2021February 10, 2023mpeto

Keep students from EVER falling through the cracks!

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020mpeto

Introducing a level 1 Read-aloud story book: “Good Stories for Learners of Spanish”

August 31, 2020August 23, 2023mpeto

September free webinar series: How to teach with novels

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020mpeto

Review: En Comunidad

December 30, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

Fear & Creativity

October 12, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

Weekly Newsletter

August 30, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

Grades in a CI Classroom

May 1, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

Galeano & May Day

April 11, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

The Unhelpful Practice of Alienating Heritage Language Learners of Spanish

April 8, 2019December 16, 2023mpeto

2 free “maravillas” to brighten your school day!

March 29, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

10 Steps to a Better Pleasure Reading Program

March 5, 2019April 11, 2020mpeto

You don’t have to be a teacher-entertainer

December 6, 2018February 6, 2019mpeto

7 Rules to Remain Sane and Avoid Perfection

November 12, 2018February 6, 2019mpeto

Pleasure Reading

November 4, 2018August 24, 2025mpeto

Complete instructions to making OWIs and the stories they inspire

November 2, 2018February 6, 2019mpeto

When there is no workshop nearby

September 13, 2018April 27, 2020mpeto

Harnessing a Running Horse: An Essential Classroom Management Tool

September 2, 2018May 15, 2020mpeto

What do I do with the Write & Discuss after we are done?

July 20, 2018February 5, 2019mpeto

Plan Browsing Strategies if you want Students to Browse your Class Library

June 11, 2018April 27, 2020mpeto

Common assessments, common experiences, and the messy path of acquisition

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018mpeto

My first story in Japanese

May 31, 2018May 31, 2018mpeto

Beginner Japanese lesson: A Happy to be Mean Scissors – with Kurumi

May 27, 2018May 28, 2018mpeto

Learning Japanese, Comprehensible Input and reflections on teaching

May 18, 2018April 27, 2020mpeto

“How do you “catch up” the students who show up at random intervals throughout the year? How can students “recover credit” from absences?”

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018mpeto

OWI tweak for nervous teachers

April 18, 2018April 21, 2019mpeto

Earth Day 2018

April 11, 2018April 12, 2018mpeto

Protected: Music

February 25, 2018September 14, 2025mpeto

Write & Discuss example

January 2, 2018January 2, 2018mpeto

Sometimes students long for something real

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15 favorite essays
by Mike Peto

1. Calm & Clear is Better Than Loud & Lively
2. Transition a Dept to CI
3. Common Assessments
4. No Student Falls through the Cracks
5. Linguistic Diversity
6. OWIs and their Stories
7. Where are we going?
8. The Weird Little Drawing
9. Write & Discuss Library
10. Non-readers
11. Fear & Creativity
12. Story Listening, almost
13. Sweet 16 Verbs
14. Students, Front & Center
15. Imagination Work

 

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