The official Garbanzo blog.

How I start the year with Tomatina using The Comprehensible Classroom and Garbanzo.

In this post you'll learn:

🍅 How I kick off the school year with La Tomatina
 📖 How I pair The Comprehensible Classroom lesson with a Garbanzo story
 🔤 How I use a free Alphabox printable to get students rereading naturally
 🗣️ How the Alphabox turns into a whole-class retell (without students even realizing it!)
 💡 A simple bell ringer that uses the same activity the next day

Garbanzo addresses ACTFL’s World Readiness Standards, enacts ACTFL’s Guiding Principles, and works toward building proficiency in alignment with ACTFL’s Proficiency Guidelines in a digital environment.

Although Garbanzo was strategically designed to align with research in the area of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and not research in the area of Literacy Development, popularly known as the Science of Reading, Garbanzo lessons are aligned with the Science of Reading in several important ways.

Garbanzo is excited to introduce a new feature: downloadable word clouds for every lesson! No matter what your curriculum looks like, Garbanzo’s new word clouds can provide a dynamic way to support language acquisition.

After seven years of fine-tuning Garbanzo to create a high-quality, secure, online platform that meets the needs of language teachers and students, it’s time for us to adjust our pricing. Our mission to keep Garbanzo as accessible as possible remains the same, which is why we’re proud to announce our newest initiative: The Educator Assistance Discount. 

Enter the Pet Stars contest and not only could your classroom pet be featured in a Garbanzo lesson, but you could also win a FREE Garbanzo subscription for a year!

Garbanzo lessons are designed to be standalone activities, thanks to the processing questions embedded in each one! Students will learn and acquire language simply by reading each lesson. However, you may wish to use the lesson as a starting point or extend the lesson into a larger activity. 

This blog post offers four possible listening activities you can pair with a Garbanzo lesson to help students with their input. 

Welcome to the Garbanzo English Vodcast- where you can find interactive, easy-to-understand English stories written for beginners.