With block periods for testing today, I pulled up students individually for speaking assessments. This meant that I needed plenty of individual work to keep them busy! After they finished the authentic reading from Camina o corre, I had them choose children’s books for Free Voluntary Reading (FVR). They needed to complete this form for…
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Fútbol
Just finished up robust-ifying the cultural content of my Las chicas no juegan al fútbol americano mini unit. Its reading assessment was about sports in Spanish speaking countries and baseball in the DR, but this year I plan to use the reading, discussion questions, instructional video CLOZE activity, and webquest for soccer infographs contained in…
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México lindo y querido – Javier Solís
This is a great song to sing on Mexican Independence Day! I give a short intro to the video in Spanish, with a little background on Javier Solís and ranchera music, before we watch the video. The reading I use is in this file. Watch/listen to it several times while students complete the CLOZE lyrics ( The…
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Grow Story Grow
This is one of my favorite language-learning resources. My students love it, and it is a great activity to leave as a sub plan or for a day that you plan to pull students for things like speaking assessments or portfolio reviews. Basically, students can log in and read dual-language electronic storybooks and complete follow-up…
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Character Map
This is a character map that I adapted from Laurie Clarcq after a workshop that she did with us at the AFLA 2010 Conference in Talkeetna. I made my own form so that it fits on a half page, saving some trees! It requires the students to explore a character from a story (novel, song, article, etc.) in-depth.…
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El cuento del río – a test of moral values
So my students are in the middle of the most exciting thing that we have ever done in Spanish class. Well, at least I think so 🙂 Some of them may have different opinions…I’ll post the full plans later, but I wanted to post this component now because it is just so fantastic! Part of…
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Franklin Chang Díaz
I wrote this biography of Franklin Chang Díaz (based on the biography on his website) to be used in my El sistema solar unit, which I’ll update once I finish teaching it this spring: Chang Díaz biografía Here is an additional activity that you can do using an interview with him, too!
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La siesta
This is a reading that uses target structures from Hay que estudiar and talks about the tradition of the siesta in Spain, based on information from the Ajuntament de Barcelona website. I have a whole unit on this that I’ll be posting in pieces as I finish editing them…one of these days…
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Las botas picudas
Super sweet blog alert–Srta. Barragán posts songs, projects, and more that can be used in Spanish classes. I’ve gotten so many great ideas from combing through her archives over the past few days! Here is the first lesson of presumably many that I wrote based on materials that I found on her site. THANK YOU!…
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Telling Time: Story and Activity
Oooh! I have to post this before I forget (since my blog is my file system!). One great way that we discussed using Fan’N’Pick is to practice the difference between “a las” and “son las” (AT x o’clock vs. IT IS x o’clock). I have no idea why this is so difficult for students…if you want…
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