anyone wish to share his/her first attempt and knowledge/experience gained? Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ====================== 97/12 From-> Jim Conway Subject: Reading Scholastic After attending a TPRS workshop, I bought some Scholastic books in Spanish; The Class Clown, The Class President, and the first 3 Goose Bumps. In my Spanish 3’s and 4’s we are reading The Class Clown together, then they’ll be doing more reading on their own. I have been very surprised at the students’ enthusiasm to read these books. I have never seen such enthusiasm when reading target language literature. I would prefer to be reading authentic target language literature, so that students would be learning more about culture as they are learning to read in L2. I have read all the books and I now understand why the students enjoy them. The stories are funny and entertaining. If I can increase their language acquisition,