What is TPRS?

TPRS is not the same as TPR.
TPRS is "Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling".

It is more storyasking than storrytelling. 

Question:
Is the teacher asking the children  if they can tell him a storry, or is he/she the children asking about the characters of the storry, the place and the topic?

What is your strongest intelligence?

Do you know what of the intelligences is your storngest?
Think about the 8 intelligences and connect it with your way  to learn. Are there some distingtive intelligences?

Maybe you can learn when you hear something or you have to write it down. Sometimes you have to draw some skizzes to remember the stuff.

Is this picture meaningful?

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Look at this picture and think about the 8 intelligences.

Will you keep it in your mind because of this picture? If not, what kind of picture would you prefer for these 8 intelligences?

Multiple Intelligences

There are 8 intellingences which everybody has, but not in the same dimension. When you are teaching TPR, you have to think about this 8 intelligences and try to include as much as possible. Not every child has the same way to learn. When you include all intelligences, you can reach all children and they will have fun when they are learning something.

1.) verbal-linguistic

2.) logical- mathematical

3.) visual- spatial

4.) bodily- kinesthetic

5.) musical- rythmic

6.) interpersonal

7.) intrapersonal

8.) naturalistic

The typical way how to teach in a TPR way!

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This is the typical way how to teach a TPR lesson. The teacher is showing the children what he is speaking. He acts and speaks. After them he speaks and the children have to act. And at the end the children speak and he acts.

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Learning by doing

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This pyramid shows us how important it is to let the children do something. They will get 75% of the topics. Now we see that TPR is a good way to teach especially LANGUAGES but also other subjects.

What do you think about it?

"I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand."

    Confucius