El Nuevo Houdini

Class novels make the BEST long-term sub plans. I have to give a HUGE shout out to Carol Gaab for the amazing teacher’s manual that she wrote to accompany her equally amazing novel, El nuevo Houdini. My 2A students will be reading the past-tense version of the novel (the novel includes two versions: one present…

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Cognates lesson: skill building that supports comprehension

I created a simple Cognates worksheet for my Spanish A students to complete tomorrow while I am at the 2011 AFLA Conference. My students will read through the information on this worksheet on their own, while supervised by the sub, and then choose some children’s books from our class library to scan for cognates that…

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