EPISODE05
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.
WITH ANDREW J. SNIDER
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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.
EPISODE02
Building an Acquisition Engine
How smaller classroom systems connect planning, high-frequency language, stories, reading, and assessment to give learners more time processing understandable language.
EPISODE01
Starting from the Beginning
What makes input comprehensible, why processing meaning matters, and how repeated encounters with understandable language support proficiency.