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When acquiring a second language, in a Level 1 class, it is important to make the learning engaging and fun-especially when learning grammar patterns. Drawing is an effective way to engage all learners with an activity that provides a lot of comprehensible input. As the teacher retells a story, the students use their whiteboard to illustrate the scene. Students then pass their board to the student on their left. Everyone has a new board! Before the teacher starts describing the new scene, the teacher reviews the previous scene (that is already drawn on their boards). Students point to the story detail as I describe it and if they don’t see it, they are to draw it in. Now the teacher describes the newest scene which students illustrate. I repeat the cycle until the story is complete or I’ve run out of time. The students carefully stack the boards and when my Spanish 2 students come to class, they take a board and as I retell the story they are to point to the drawings that match each scene. All of my students are engaged and learning through repetition and meaningful experiences.

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When acquiring a second language, in a Level 1 class, it is important to make the learning engaging and fun-especially when learning grammar patterns. Drawing is an effective way to engage all learners with an activity that provides a lot of comprehensible input. As the teacher retells a story, the students use their whiteboard to illustrate the scene. Students then pass their board to the student on their left. Everyone has a new board! Before the teacher starts describing the new scene, the teacher reviews the previous scene (that is already drawn on their boards). Students point to the story detail as I describe it and if they don’t see it, they are to draw it in. Now the teacher describes the newest scene which students illustrate. I repeat the cycle until the story is complete or I’ve run out of time. The students carefully stack the boards and when my Spanish 2 students come to class, they take a board and as I retell the story they are to point to the drawings that match each scene. All of my students are engaged and learning through repetition and meaningful experiences.

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