[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 17 | July 14, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Bryce Hedstrom might start with five words such as cat, girl, like, give and has.
He give an action for each word and makes up silly stories about the girl who has a cat and gives it to another girl.
He adds in other words like “what” and “there” and adds on to the story. The students respond to his questions about who has the cat and what the girl has.
And by the end of the lesson where he has repeated the base words 70-100 times, the students are having conversations in Spanish with each other and understanding them.
Hedstrom is a Loveland resident and internationally renowned Spanish instructor, who is leading the movement throughout Northern Colorado and giving presentations all over the country about the method, Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling.
He teaches classes at Roosevelt High School in Johnstown and Aims Community College in Loveland.