NTPRS 2019

Any K-8 teachers are welcome to join our cohort as various program models and age groups will be addressed throughout the ongoing workshop and all TPRS skill levels beginning, intermediate and advanced are welcome.

• transform your classroom communication with coaching in ESSENTIAL classroom management skills
• learn sample elementary stories in multiple languages
• be coached in TPRS skills for elementary / Movie Talk and MANY reading strategies
• learn how to blend TPR and content COMPREHENSIBLY
• get important tips to create a story-based curriculum
• adapt lessons to your specific needs in like-language/level small groups
• practice PQA and learn to create personalized stories with little ones

Reader's Theater helps students see pictures in their heads instead of reading and translating and decoding. The steps for successful Reader's Theater and any level with any novel. Selecting a text, pre-teaching for higher comprehension, coaching actors for high impact reader's theater and killer techniques for making reading come to life.

You know the basics of asking a story, but juggling all the pieces can be hard!  This presentation will include how to keep track of multiple stories in multiple classes, the basics of using a TPRS (or Matava style) script, managing responses, procedures to make it go more smoothly, and more. We will also be watching a video and using some observation strategies to see what it looks like with real kids.

Research tells us that learners need to repeatedly interact with comprehensible language, but teaching students who crave novelty means that a teacher must be creative in order to figure out how to provide input in interesting ways.  The purpose of this session is to offer a range of strategies that provide high quality comprehensible input with little preparation and learn how to apply them to existing lessons. An added benefit of these strategies is that they can be implemented in flexible groupings, allowing teachers to meet expectations for interactive classrooms. After modeling a simple text in English, participants will engage in a series of comprehension based drawing and reading activities to model several strategies and brainstorm how to use the same basic tools to create more input based activities. The presenter will model setting student expectations for managing these types of activities as well as how to use movement, flexible groupings, and physical space to provide input.