EPISODE
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Phase 3 - The Storytelling Phase
A teacher-facing episode where I detail the storytelling phase of the CI Immersion system of language acquisition.
WITH ANDREW J. SNIDER
The CI Immersion Podcast
On the CI Immersion Podcast, I break down my complete language acquisition system, one component at a time. It’s a collection of interconnected systems designed to develop student proficiency, simplify lesson planning, save teachers time, and make classroom instruction run more smoothly.
I explain how each system works, how I use it in my own classroom, and how the pieces fit together.
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Follow these five episodes from the purpose of the system to preparing and telling a class story. Episode 2 gives the map; the phase episodes show how the work begins.
Start with Episode 1-
Episode 1: Starting from the Beginning
Begin with understandable input and the purpose of processing meaning.
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Episode 2: Building an Acquisition Engine
See how the smaller instructional and supporting systems connect.
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Episode 3: Phase 1 - First Steps
Prepare scope, stories, grading, and classroom systems before instruction begins.
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Episode 4: Phase 2: Pre-Storytelling
Build familiarity with useful language through gestures, questions, and learner contributions.
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Episode 5: The Storytelling Phase
Co-create a story, slow down with questions, recap, and preserve it for later reading.
For the full story-to-reading-to-assessment connection, see the System page while listening.
Episode archive
EPISODE
04
Phase 2 - Pre-Storytelling
Build the language learners need for stories through high-frequency phrases, learner-driven input, gestures, TPR, and questions that check comprehension.
EPISODE
03
Phase 1 - First Steps
Plan scope and sequence, select stories and target phrases, and organize grading and classroom systems before the term begins so class time can focus on language.
EPISODE
02
Building an Acquisition Engine
How smaller classroom systems connect planning, high-frequency language, stories, reading, and assessment to give learners more time processing understandable language.
EPISODE
01
Starting from the Beginning
What makes input comprehensible, why processing meaning matters, and how meaningful reps support proficiency.