Sneak peek: How writing to an amigo secreto will engage students in authentic writing in heritage speakers class. *This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click through to one of the product links, I’ll earn a small percentage at no extra cost to you. It’s always
I first came across this title while reading Mike Peto’s blog- My Generation of Polyglots. I found this book to be a perfect reading level for the majority of my heritage students while at the same time being full of raw and authentic stories of immigration likely to engage my
Sneak peek: Here’s the inside scoop on the year one curriculum for the Heritage Speakers class I teach. The Heritage Speakers class at my school is offered in two sections every day. Our class length is just shy of the hour mark, at around 57 minutes. As it is such a selective
Sneak Peek: The basic concepts of a literary circle. How to specifically use a literary circle in a heritage speakers class, and how a literary circle best creates opportunities to improve your students’ writing ability via one-on-ones with your students. In year one of my Heritage Speakers class, I did a
Sneak peek: The personal process of teaching a heritage speakers class for the first time without any structured curriculum. I’m not a native Spanish speaker. So when it became known last summer, that I would probably be teaching the Spanish for Heritage Speakers course at my school, my nerves began to
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