Last year, I made reference to a Pingu clip that I MovieTalked as an anticipatory set for Chapter 2 of El Nuevo Houdini, but I never posted the clip! Silly me! Thanks, Nancy, for reminding me to put it out there! The episode is about what happens at home when Pingu’s parents go out for…
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El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 10
Chapter 10 makes me sad because the end of this great novel is so near. Sigh. Students do the pre-reading discussion questions using the cube template included in the Teacher’s Guide. I made one class set of cubes the first time that I taught this novel, and I save it in a box with all…
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El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 9
Before we jumped into Chapter 9, we did a little prediction! I gave my students this pre-reading writing prompt for discussion: El Capítulo 9 de El Nuevo Houdini se llama “Una foto especial”. ¿Quién va a estar en la foto? ¿Quién va a sacar la foto? ¿Qué van a estar haciendo las personas en la foto?…
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El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 8
Here’s what we did with Chapter 8 of El nuevo Houdini! We discussed the pre-reading discussion questions from the Teacher’s Guide. I read the chapter aloud, TWICE!, as students drew a mural for it on this really intricate form that I created (not). The first time, they drew a really quick sketch, and the second time…
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El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 7
El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 6
Again, way behind in blogging my plans…we have finished El Nuevo Houdini, so I just need to find the time to post what we did for the last five chapters of the book! Here are the plans that my classes followed for Chapter 6: Chapter 6 is called “Un beso increíble”, which lends itself very nicely…
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Houdini Chapter 5
Here the lesson plans that I followed for teaching El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 5: Before reading Chapter 5: Introduce vocabulary for the chapter using “Una comida especial“. Pre-reading discussion using the questions provided in the Teacher’s Guide. Reading and discussion I read Chapter 5 aloud to the students, circling and personalizing as we went. Discussed…
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A Special Meal script for El nuevo Houdini Chapter 4
I wrote this story script for a TPRS® story that would help my students become familiar with vocabulary for Chapter 4/5 of El Nuevo Houdini. It works great for Level 2 classes! Spanish and English scripts are listed below. This is the script that I used when the visitors from Southwest Regional District were in my…
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Ketchup lesson to accompany El nuevo Houdini Chapter 4
I wrote this lesson plan to go with Chapter 4 of El Nuevo Houdini (see all Houdini plans here) after Carol Gaab suggested showing a video about the making of ketchup in the Teacher’s Guide for the book. And every good Spanish teacher knows that one cannot talk about ketchup without talking about Las Ketchup…
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El Nuevo Houdini, Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is one of my favorites in El Nuevo Houdini because there are so many great resources in the Teacher’s Guide that supplement the text! Here are my plans: Another reading that works well with this chapter (perhaps as a sub plan…that’s what I used it for this time around!) is Mimos en Caracas.
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