Become a more confident language teacher.
Once upon a time, there was a teacher named Paulino. Paulino had a big problem. He knew that he needed to provide his students with independent reading and listening material in Spanish that they could understand, but it was hard to find. One day, he had an idea: he decided to… OPTION 1: Find a…
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The Somos Flex curriculum is a unique, multi-strand Spanish curriculum that takes care of lesson planning so that you can focus on the most important thing: connecting with your students. Just as the original SOMOS curriculum has given thousands of teachers the confidence to step into a new way of teaching, so has Somos Flex…
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Whether your school is facing a temporary return to remote learning or you are trying to provide materials for your students to complete while quarantined or YOU are quarantining at home and in need of fast sub plans, we have materials to support you. We sorted through all of our products and identified the ones…
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If you’re a language teacher, I am willing to bet that you have played the Flyswatter game with your students! The Flyswatter game, commonly called Matamoscas in Spanish, is an easy game that brings in movement and competition. It’s also easy to keep it Comprehension-focused, as Keith Toda taught us some years ago. But is…
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Last week, Elicia Cárdenas taught a Demo lesson for the First Day of language class that can be taught in-person or virtually. We recorded the lesson and debuted it during a Facebook Watch Party on Thursday, and the feedback has been overwhelming: seeing this demo is exactly what teachers need to feel confident on their…
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The most successful synchronous lessons are often game-based. As a parent, I have been spying on my own kids’ synchronous classes. As a curriculum coach, I’ve been debriefing synchronous lesson plans with SOMOS teachers. GAMES make online classes feel less like a chore, and they allow us to do what we miss most about being…
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If you’re anything like me, you love a good manipulative activity. Here are some common manipulative activities used by language teachers: sequencing events from a story that are printed on strips of paper matching chunks of authentic texts to paraphrased summaries sorting quotes into groups based on who said or would have said each one…
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