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The sound/color chart (40x55 cm) contains a certain number of colored rectangles, each rectangle representing a sound or sounds in the target language. The teacher, and later the students, points to the blocks of color on the chart to form syllables, words, and even sentences. The chart draws the students’ attention and allows them to concentrate on the language, not on the teacher.

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Silence as a tool helps to foster autonomy or the exercise of initiative. It also removes the teacher from the center of attention so he can listen to and work with students. The teacher gives just as much help as is necessary and then is silent. Even in error correction, the teacher will only supply a verbal answer as the last resort.

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Students are encouraged to help other students when they are experiencing difficulties. It is important that any help is offered cooperatively, not competitively. The teacher supervises the help so that it is helpful and does not interfere.

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Cuisenaire Rods are small wooden rods of different lengths and colors. They are used as a classroom resource to visually represent various areas of language. At the beginning level, the rods can be used to teach colors and numbers. Later on, they can be used for more complicated structures; for example, statements with prepositions and conditionals. The teacher can use rods to represent each word in a sentence or to elicit the sentence from the students.

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The teacher indicates that each of his fingers represented a word in a sentence and used this to locate the trouble spot for the student.

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The teacher points to the words on a word chart in a sequence to allow students to read the sentences aloud. Moreover, the way the letters are colored helps students with their pronunciation.The charts contain the functional vocabulary of English.

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The Fidel Chart is a set of charts presenting all the possible spellings of each sound of the language. The teacher, and later the students, points to the color-coded Fidel Charts in order that students associate the sounds of the language with their spelling.

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Students are invited to make observations about the day’s lesson and what they have learned. The teacher accepts the students’ comments in a nondefensive manner, hearing things that will help give him direction for where he should work when the class meets again.