Textivate to review stories

I am loving reading A Natural Approach to the Year, which is a follow up to A Natural Approach to Stories by Tina Hargaden and Ben Slavic. If you are looking to teach CI starting in level 1, these books are essential readings! The second book, A Natural Approach to the Year, has so many concrete examples for teachers, specifically they have 30 "Instructional Sessions" that teachers can do throughout the year. As you many know, stories are an integral part of this way of teaching. Stories make class engaging, interesting and compelling!!

So, what to do after the story has been created and/or told?!?! One of the many things that Tina and Ben mention in their book is Textivate. I love Textivate! I have used it in the past as a way to review stories. I like it because it is easy differentiation and students can go at their own pace while reviewing stories.

So far  in Spanish 1 (10 days of 85 minutes so far), I have used Textivate for our two OWIs (my first time doing this and I (and students) LOVE it!): Ricardo El Balón and Carla La Cuchara and for three stories based on music videos/songs. I used the Story Listening technique to tell these music-video-based-stories, then students watched the videos, then we did a variety of activities. See the links below for resources. (I am aware that I need to have some female representation!! Coming soon!)

Textivate - Spanish to English
Textivate - Put in order

Textivate - Spanish to English

Textivate - Put story in order

Textivate - Spanish to English

Textivate - Put in order

Textivate - put in order and sequence - put in order

Textivate - Spanish to English and sequence

For the first time this year, I bought the Premium subscription, which allows me to keep track of student progress. With this premium subscription, I can also set "sequences" of specific activities that students have to do. Students do these activities in class, in TASC (a special enrichment and/or extra help block we have every day), or for homework. I can also see how long the activities took each student and how accurate they were. Here is an example of what I can see (I have omitted the student names):



And here is an example of a the "Details":