CI book reviews MADRE TIERRA, a tale of legacy and strength 24 Feb 202024 Feb 2020 Trying to live in harmony with Mother Earth is something that we will never reach in full unless we go back in time and experience a more natural life, more…
CI book reviews THE POWERFUL EFFECT OF POETRY IN THE WL CLASSROOM 19 Feb 202026 Feb 2020 Photo by JR Korpa I have been teaching for over thirty years and not a day goes by when my students don't surprise me! Some students already know that I have…
CI book reviews JULIANA 14 Feb 202014 Feb 2020 St. Valentine's Day is behind us. The hearts, the chocolate, the candy grams, and the especial dinner will have to wait another year. During this day we celebrate love and…
CI book reviews CI POETRY NEW BOOK´S PREVIEW AND ACTIVITIES 11 Feb 202011 Feb 2020 Wow! This last 24 hours have been amazingly and positively CRAZY! 24 hours ago I shared my very first CI poetry book: Corazón sin borrador. I´m amazed by the kind…
CI book reviews POETRY IN THE CI SPANISH CLASS IS HERE! 10 Feb 2020 After a couple of years of planning and writing I´m very happy to announce that I have published my first book of poems for the CI Spanish classroom. Corazón sin…
CI book reviews LA CIUDAD DE LOS MUERTOS 5 Jan 20205 Jan 2020 A story with an underground plot As only great storytellers can do it, Sonya Chapman-Morley is able to interwave stories while maintaining the reader's interest. In La Ciudad de los…
CI book reviews MECHE 1 Jan 20205 Jan 2020 When home transcends borders Mike Peto's Meche, it's not just another story. Meche is a beautiful metaphor of 31 chapters in which Peto familiarizes us with the life of a…
CI book reviews LA HIJA DEL SASTRE 27 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 A CI classic that carves new words in the students´minds It was almost seven years ago that for the first time I read La Hija del Sastre by Carrie Toth…
CI book reviews RIGO, PEDALING FOR LIFE 22 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 Rigoberto Urán, a famous Colombian cyclist and better known as Rigo, is the protagonist of this new story written by the prolific author Adriana Ramírez. In this novel Ramírez presents…
CI book reviews BRINGING A LITTLE BIT OF ACTION TO CI 15 Dec 2019 The great boom that the Free Voluntary Reading (FVR) is cureently having in world language classes has allowed us to know much better the reading tastes of our students. In…
