But what IS a TPRS story, anyway? Before reading a novel, we want the students to know the language in the novel. Heck, before reading much of anything, we want the students to know the language in the reading. And in TPRS, the way we get the language into the students is (usually called) a […]
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1. Pre-teach the new words with a TPRS story…
Posted by Terry Waltz on September 12th, 2016
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Tags: novels, pre-teaching, targeting 
2 Comments »10 Myths about Whole Class Reading
Posted by Terry Waltz on September 12th, 2016
Whole Class Reading (WCR) for the purposes of this post refers to using any modality of reading instruction with the entire class at once, including the various types (yes, plural) of reading instruction detailed in the Reading chapter of TPRS With Chinese Characteristics, which apply (really!) to all languages. 1. Whole Class Reading is boring. […]
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