Episode 62: Low-Prep Post-Reading Activities & Games for Language Teachers: Enhance Comprehension and Communication with Carrie Toth
Episode description
In this episode, Carrie Toth, an author and Spanish educator with over 30 years of experience, shares so many low-prep post-reading activities and games designed to engage students with more reading.
This episode is perfect for our series theme, "Making Comprehensible and Communicative Language Teaching Easy," since Carrie shares with us strategies that enrich language comprehension and communication but don´t require a ton of time to prepare.
Discover or re-discover tools like Gimkit and Quizlet, and dynamic group activities such as 'Freeze Find' and 'Game of Quotes,' ideal for fostering student collaboration and enhancing language understanding.
Carrie further explains how games like 'Musical Chairs Retell' and 'Yellow Brick Retell' can help students go over main events of a book or reading while keeping the affective filter low.
This episode is a must-listen for language teachers searching for effective, easy-to-implement post-reading games and activities.
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Carrie Toth is a Spanish teacher in Illinois. She is in her 30th year in the classroom and her 15th year using acquisition driven instruction to improve student proficiency.
Carrie is a teacher trainer and the author of several readers for language learners. She is also the author of the Huellas curriculum for Intermediate Spanish students.
Links:
Growing With Proficiency The Spanish Teacher Academy Waitlist
Dia de Gracias Reading: http://growingwithproficiency.com/thankyou