https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔝" title=""Top" mit nach oben zeigendem Pfeil darüber" aria-label="Emoji: "Top" mit nach oben zeigendem Pfeil darüber">Many #language #teachers have been asking me about what my students& #39; output looks like after learning mainly through #ComprehensibleInput and #storytelling.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> At the end of this thread are 5 writing samples from my Year 9 #Spanish class& #39;s unit 1 assessment.... [A thread] [1/6]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> Aged 12-13, started their 2nd year of Spanish with me 6 weeks ago. 1 sample is a new student this year.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> This yr we& #39;ve co-created a story about a girl who always used to dance with a towel but she couldn& #39;t get into her favourite concert as she forgot her towel! [2/6]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> We also co-created an invisible character & learned about what our classmates have hidden from or been scared by when they were younger
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> We& #39;ve not done any formal lessons on any of the past tenses other than quick & #39;pop-up& #39; explanations that arose naturally in the story [3/6]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✔" title="Fettes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Häkchen"> They& #39;ve also been doing 10 minutes of & #39;Free Voluntary Reading& #39; every Friday.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📄" title="Seite mit der Schriftseite oben" aria-label="Emoji: Seite mit der Schriftseite oben"> This task was completed in 35 mins under test conditions with no notes. See pics.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📄" title="Seite mit der Schriftseite oben" aria-label="Emoji: Seite mit der Schriftseite oben"> They had to invent their own creative story based loosely on our own story but it had to be different [4/6]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">Here are three samples of what the students wrote under test conditions in 35 mins.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✏" title="Bleistift" aria-label="Emoji: Bleistift"> You& #39;ll see I don& #39;t correct every error. This is deliberate as research shows it negatively impacts competence. I pick 2-3 to focus on for each learner [5/6]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> And two more, including the student who was new to my classes this year.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz"> Teaching #languages through #ComprehensibleInput and #stories is not only fun, motivating and engaging... it works [6/6]!
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