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Category: Reading

December 17, 2017December 18, 2017mpeto

Desaparecido – The thrill of connecting a reader with a home run book

November 25, 2017January 4, 2018mpeto

Alina´s Inspiring Approach to Accountability with FVR

August 6, 2017April 27, 2020mpeto

Struggling to hold students accountable for reading?

July 7, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Graphic novels & Japanese manga translated into Spanish

May 2, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Story Listening Lesson with my Spanish 1 students

April 4, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Hacking Quizlet to make good reading activities

February 25, 2017February 26, 2017mpeto

CCFLT 2017 – FVR presentation

January 13, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Book review: Sonríe

December 10, 2016November 28, 2017mpeto

Story Listening, almost

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016mpeto

Students need to browse

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016mpeto

Introducing CI Reading

March 12, 2016September 9, 2020mpeto

How I melded SSR with whole class reading to encourage independent reading with accountability

January 15, 2016January 30, 2016mpeto

El gato de Sèvres

December 6, 2015January 13, 2016mpeto

Crosswords: lame or fabulous?

November 16, 2015April 23, 2016mpeto

Building a class library for heritage speakers of Spanish

November 5, 2015October 12, 2022mpeto

A Map to Transitioning Your Class to FVR

October 24, 2015April 29, 2020mpeto

Word clouds to preview Superburguesas

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015mpeto

Orca Soundings: A great series for reluctant readers

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015mpeto

Choose your own adventure… readings?

August 9, 2015November 1, 2015mpeto

Building a class library for heritage speakers of Spanish

August 5, 2015September 5, 2015mpeto

Free Activities to Accompany Superburguesas

April 17, 2015September 12, 2015mpeto

Galeano & May Day

January 17, 2015December 10, 2016mpeto

Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

November 10, 2014November 12, 2014mpeto

En el fondo del caño hay un negrito

November 6, 2014November 6, 2014mpeto

Brandon y su gato

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014mpeto

El secreto en la mochila

October 23, 2014December 2, 2015mpeto

Blaine Ray and La Gran Sorpresa

October 6, 2014October 6, 2014mpeto

The SSR Handbook (book review)

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014mpeto

Palabras que empiezan con H

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014mpeto

No hay ningún gato – Panqueques

July 29, 2014July 29, 2014mpeto

Recent acquisitions for heritage speakers

July 9, 2014July 9, 2014mpeto

Review of The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014mpeto

Choose Your Own Adventure for low level FVR readers

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014mpeto

Maybe… perhaps… the class novel should die

April 15, 2014March 1, 2016mpeto

Una sorpresa: a new week long lesson plan

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014mpeto

Exploring Bryan Kandel´s reading database

February 16, 2014February 16, 2014mpeto

On building our own FVR libraries

February 3, 2014December 1, 2017mpeto

FVR reading journal

January 23, 2014February 2, 2015mpeto

El sombrero

December 30, 2013December 30, 2013mpeto

(Cultural) Product Placement: Arepas

December 13, 2013April 20, 2015mpeto

Newspaper articles reviewing AP themes of first semester

November 30, 2013November 30, 2013mpeto

Koi-Zora (movie talk for Span 1)

November 11, 2013November 11, 2013mpeto

Música de la basura

November 8, 2013November 8, 2013mpeto

Tres bebés: Spanish 1 story

November 2, 2013November 2, 2013mpeto

Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)

October 22, 2013October 22, 2013mpeto

¿Con qué sueñan los peces?

October 8, 2013October 10, 2013mpeto

El almohadón de plumas (Horacio Quiroga)

October 6, 2013October 6, 2013mpeto

Experiencing los hipopótamos colombianos with level 3

September 29, 2013September 28, 2013mpeto

Juliette quiere un coche – Spanish 1 story

September 20, 2013September 21, 2013mpeto

La mujer barbuda (Spanish 3 story)

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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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