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February 25, 2018September 14, 2025mpeto

Write & Discuss example

January 2, 2018January 2, 2018mpeto

Sometimes students long for something real

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017mpeto

Persona normal by Benito Taibo

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

November 15, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Small change, big impact

August 6, 2017April 27, 2020mpeto

Struggling to hold students accountable for reading?

July 7, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Graphic novels & Japanese manga translated into Spanish

June 10, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Watching other teachers in class

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

March 31, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Damaged books? How to maintain a class library

March 22, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Recipe for a fantastic year

February 25, 2017February 26, 2017mpeto

CCFLT 2017 – FVR presentation

January 18, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Reality check: is non-targeted story listening an efficient use of class time?

January 13, 2017December 2, 2017mpeto

Book review: Sonríe

December 10, 2016November 28, 2017mpeto

Story Listening, almost

December 9, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

A lovely book: El perro enamorado de las estrellas

December 7, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

Wafflina, an Invisibles Spanish 1 lesson

December 2, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

the cool generation

November 7, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

I chat about FVR with Dr Louisa Walker

November 6, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

Where will the CI community be in 100 years?

September 20, 2016December 2, 2017mpeto

New book posted on CI-Reading

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016mpeto

Students need to browse

September 3, 2016November 16, 2022mpeto

Why the Sweet 16 posters should be on your wall

August 28, 2016August 28, 2016mpeto

The semester-long research essay

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016mpeto

An updated look at my classroom

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016mpeto

Introducing CI Reading

July 29, 2016July 30, 2016mpeto

Did you miss out on TPRS training this summer?

July 14, 2016August 22, 2017mpeto

Cartoon syllabus

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016mpeto

Personal essays about teaching heritage learners

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 22, 2016April 23, 2016mpeto

Earth Day 2016

April 19, 2016June 13, 2016mpeto

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

April 17, 2016June 9, 2016mpeto

Your heritage speaking students think you are weird

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016mpeto

Casas de cartón, the song played in Voces inocentes

March 12, 2016September 9, 2020mpeto

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

February 20, 2016November 28, 2017mpeto

Should I assign a reading log for FVR?

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016mpeto

The little sign that saved my February

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 19, 2015October 19, 2015mpeto

Movie Talk: Hay cosas que nunca se olvidan

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015mpeto

Orca Soundings: A great series for reluctant readers

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015mpeto

Béisbol, baseball

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015mpeto

Choose your own adventure… readings?

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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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