The Stick Figure Guide to CI Vol. 1 from Tina Hargaden

The Stick Figure Guide to CI Vol. 1 from Tina Hargaden

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This guide will lead you through many beginning-the-year routines and skills, and show you step-by-step how to scaffold students’ comprehension and engage them in language interactions, building safety and trust, as well as class camaraderie. It is 77 pages of comics and hand-drawn infographics. Many teachers say that it is the best guide to keeping comprehensible in the target language that they have ever read.

Tina Hargaden

Tina Hargaden has been a K-12 educator for 17 years, and has taught middle and high school English Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, French, Spanish and ESOL. Her passion is supporting teachers to strengthen their literacy instruction, design courses that foster efficient and lasting language acquisition, and implement authentic performance assessment, because it is her firm belief that when we shift our language instruction to a proficiency stance, we help ensure equitable access to academic success for more students. She lives in Portland, Oregon and is the founder of the World Language Proficiency Project and CI Liftoff. Tina is the co-author of the book, Year-One:A Natural Approach to the Year, which provides step-by-step guidance for a year of communicative, proficiency-oriented World Language instruction. She has presented and keynoted at numerous state, regional, and national conferences, worked with many school districts and departments, and given workshops and institutes to educators all over to support them in strengthening language outcomes for all students.