Top 5 of 2025

It is nearing the end of the year, and as always, I wish to thank all of you who read my blog and walk away having learned something or feel encouraged or even challenged. At the ACTFL Convention in New Orleans a few weeks ago, it was so nice to meet many of you in person - I definitely appreciate the kinds words which you passed along to me.

I was taking a look over what I have posted this year, and I see that there were two topics about which I seemed to address often: proficiency-based grading vs. performance-based grading, and literacy/the science of reading. These two subjects continue to intrigue me and what they look like in a CI/ADI classroom. I hope to learn more about these topics in 2026, so possibly expect more blog posts about them next year. I have been learning much about the science of reading and how to apply that to a CI/ADI curriculum - I am excited to share much of that with you all in 2026!

So as is tradition, I list here the top 5 viewed blog posts of 2025: 

1. The Necessity of Background Language Knowledge for Reading in the CI/ADI Classroom 
2. Translation Rubric 
3. Novellas - Balancing Comprehensibility and Compelling 
4. Left/Right PQAs - Purposeful Communication 
5. Spanish Confidence Readers by Adam Giedd 

I began this blog in December 2013, and 463 posts later (and over 1,450,000 page views - wow!!!), I am amazed that I still have not run out of things about which to write. I hope that your school year ends well, and I look forward to 2026!