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January 11, 2026January 11, 2026mpeto

More! More! Sequel to the Big Book of Tiny Daily Readings in Spanish

January 9, 2026January 10, 2026mpeto

Experiences teaching Tierra Incógnita

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

July 20, 2018February 5, 2019mpeto

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

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

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018mpeto

OWI tweak for nervous teachers

April 11, 2018April 12, 2018mpeto

Protected: Music

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017mpeto

Persona normal by Benito Taibo

March 31, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Damaged books? How to maintain a class library

December 9, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

A lovely book: El perro enamorado de las estrellas

November 7, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

I chat about FVR with Dr Louisa Walker

September 20, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

New book posted on CI-Reading

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016mpeto

An updated look at my classroom

July 29, 2016July 30, 2016mpeto

Did you miss out on TPRS training this summer?

May 28, 2016May 28, 2016mpeto

Winner of the Ben Slavic workshop prize

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016mpeto

La locura de mayo

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016mpeto

Teacher Appreciation lottery for Month of May

April 19, 2016June 13, 2016mpeto

This is what students are capable of if you do not shelter grammar in level 1 classes

February 20, 2016November 28, 2017mpeto

Should I assign a reading log for FVR?

October 19, 2015October 19, 2015mpeto

Movie Talk: Hay cosas que nunca se olvidan

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015mpeto

Béisbol, baseball

September 22, 2015January 30, 2016mpeto

Contact: a speaking game for native speakers

September 13, 2015October 26, 2015mpeto

Reading pleasure

August 30, 2015September 5, 2015mpeto

The concrete poem that opens Superburguesas

August 26, 2015November 28, 2015mpeto

Deskless and organized

July 29, 2015September 5, 2015mpeto

Letter to parents about a deskless classroom

July 26, 2015September 30, 2017mpeto

My new TPRS novel has been published

July 24, 2015March 13, 2016mpeto

NTPRS 2015: my presentation on FVR

July 21, 2015July 21, 2015mpeto

NTPRS 2015: Tech tools to make popular music truly comprehensible

July 6, 2015September 5, 2015mpeto

Language Shyness among Heritage Speakers

July 1, 2015September 5, 2015mpeto

Book review: Speed readings for Spanish Learners by Eric Herman

May 8, 2015January 30, 2016mpeto

Un chico que habla demasiado: a story for Spanish 1 and above

March 22, 2015September 12, 2015mpeto

Becoming Better at Asking

March 15, 2015September 12, 2015mpeto

Are your Movie talks Step 2 or Step 3?

February 17, 2015September 12, 2015mpeto

More high-interest novels for heritage speakers

February 14, 2015April 29, 2020mpeto

The Advantages of Posting High Frequency Verbs

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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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