Interactive Notebook Activities

In this blog post, I share activities and strategies that have worked well in my French and Spanish classes to increase student engagement, and therefore, to increase proficiency in reading, [...]

The biggest challenge when teaching vocabulary is having enough activities to provide students with sufficient language in context. In this post, I’ll show you how I teach the clothes and colors [...]

“Why are we gluing pieces of paper to a notebook when we could be in our classrooms working?” I whispered during the staff meeting. Tables were littered with glue sticks. My Spanish teacher [...]

“OK, what’s the big deal with interactive notebooks, and why is everyone using them?” I was thinking.  Maybe in Science Class, but in World Language?  I thought they were just a fad that would go [...]