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The Storytelling Phase
Co-create stories with learners while keeping language comprehensible: choose useful phrases, invite details, slow down with questions, and revisit the story through frequent recaps.
LANGUAGE TEACHING WITH ANDREW J. SNIDER
CI Immersion
CI Immersion is a complete system for teaching languages through comprehension, meaningful interaction, and repeated encounters with language.
The CI Immersion Podcast explores the ideas, techniques, and classroom systems behind comprehension-based language teaching.
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EPISODE04
Phase 2: Pre-Storytelling
Build the language learners need for stories through high-frequency phrases, learner-driven input, gestures, TPR, and questions that check comprehension.
EPISODE03
Phase 1 - First Steps
Plan scope and sequence, select stories and target phrases, and organize grading and classroom systems before the term begins so class time can focus on language.
The CI Immersion system
I have developed and refined CI Immersion through more than 15 years of classroom teaching.
The system connects comprehensible instruction, meaningful interaction, stories, reading, classroom routines, and assessment. These practices work together to give students repeated opportunities to understand and communicate.
How the system works →Comprehension-based and proficiency-driven
Comprehension-based teaching starts with messages students can understand. Proficiency-driven instruction keeps the purpose in view: developing students’ ability to understand and communicate, rather than simply covering material.
Professional development
Workshops, coaching, consulting, and department PD series help teachers understand and implement the approaches discussed on the podcast. Virtual and in-person formats are available; the focus and schedule depend on your team.
Bring CI Immersion to your school →About Andrew J. Snider
I share the instructional system I use and continue to refine through classroom teaching. The podcast explains that work, and professional development gives teachers an opportunity to discuss its application in their own classrooms.
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