Using Señor Wooly for more than Nuggets!
If you're a Spanish teacher and you focus on providing Comprehensible Input (CI) to your students, you probably know of Señor Wooly . If you don't, do yourself a favor and check it out here . Many of us LOVE Wooly because of the ability to play fun songs in the target language, to engage students in a love for the crazy stories, and to take a break (or use for sub plans) and assign students "nuggets" to work on independently that provide them with great input. BUT! Last year during Wooly Week , I learned SO MUCH from the Wooly team about how to milk a story and really get kids HOOKED on the story before you even showed the video. Now, when I plan to use a new Wooly song, I keep these ideas in the back of my mind. I try to really get to the heart of the story and push past the surface of the songs and use them for everything they are. Of course, using the nuggets, and the supplemental materials like the embedding readings and the pre/during/post viewing activi...