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How to use Duolingo in your world language classroom

Today’s post is about this fantastic free app called Duolingo. It is a wonderful tool for differentiation, especially for your high-achievers who always finish early!   What is Duolingo? Duolingo is a free online tool to learn language. It teaches students through a series of mini-lessons and tracks their progress. Mini-lessons include skills across all 4 domains ... Read More about How to use Duolingo in your world language classroom

Brandon Brown quiere un perro final project

This post will talk about how we finished up the book and our final project.  I hope you have found these posts helpful and please feel free to share what was successful in your own classrooms! We read chapters 7 and 8 aloud together in class, but students only completed written questions for chapter 8. We did the same thing for chapters 9-10, without answering any written questions. ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro final project

Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapters 4-6

At this point, we began to move more quickly through the book since the kids were comfortable. Chapter 4 I read aloud to students, stopping to ask questions and acting things out for them.They completed the chapter 4 reading questions independently and turned them in for a grade.Homework: Pre-teach yourselves the vocabulary with this Quizlet for chapters 5-6 Chapters 5 & 6 I read ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapters 4-6

Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 3

Reviewing chapter two Today I started by passing back the reading questions for chapter two and asked students to look in their books to find the exact sentence to answer the question ¿Cuándo es el cumpleaños de Brandon? We talked about the importance of close reading and how most people got this one wrong.  Then I wrote 5 statements on the board and asked students to translate them on the ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 3

Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 2

Before reading Before reading chapter two, we scanned the chapter and reviewed the idea that Spanish uses dashes (-) to indicate a new speaker instead of quotation marks.   We also looked at the words Ji,ji,ji on p. 6 and talked about what this meant and why it was spelled that way.  The kids got a real kick out of relating it to texting. During reading I read this chapter ... Read More about Brandon Brown quiere un perro – chapter 2

Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro Chapter 1

Yesterday, I introduced the novel, Brandon Brown quiere un perro to my seventh graders, and we began reading chapter one. After seeing my students struggle to answer the question ¿Cómo es?, I created this Important Questions Template. They copied down ¿Cómo es? and ¿Cómo son? and then I showed them several examples of sentences and pictures answering those questions ... Read More about Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro Chapter 1

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  • Christmas (la Navidad) and Hanukkah (Janucá), are 2 holidays during the winter months and December to teach in your Spanish classroom. Use these activities to engage Spanish students while learning about holiday traditions in Spanish-speaking countries related to Christmas and Chanukah. Read this blog article for ideas to incorporate both holidays to be inclusive of all students. Great winter activity for Spanish 1, 2, 3, or 4. Includes listening comprehension, reading comprehension.
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  • Download this free Spanish listening practice activity so that students can listen to native speakers & a variety of accents outside of class. Each recording provides audio of a Spanish speaker from a different country so that students can hear different dialects & develop their listening comprehension. This free resource includes five audio recordings and listening comprehension practice activities and questions related to family, la familia. Ideal for middle or high school beginning students.
  • Spanish Calendar Talk for your Daily Routines
  • Do you teach heritage speakers, native speakers & spanish 1 students in the same class period? When admin won't create a separate heritage spanish class, students are often placed in the wrong level. How do you teach more than one proficiency level in the same class period? This blog article gives ideas to meet the needs of all students through organization & differentiation. Click to read more!
  • Do you teach heritage speakers, native speakers & spanish 1 students in the same class period? When admin won't create a separate heritage spanish class, students are often placed in the wrong level. How do you teach more than one proficiency level in the same class period? This blog article gives ideas to meet the needs of all students through organization & differentiation. Click to read more!
  • Do you teach heritage speakers, native speakers & spanish 1 students in the same class period? When admin won't create a separate heritage spanish class, students are often placed in the wrong level. How do you teach more than one proficiency level in the same class period? This blog article gives ideas to meet the needs of all students through organization & differentiation. Click to read more!
  • Beginner Spanish students love to learn family vocabulary in Spanish. Here is a week-by-week guide about how to teach it with some fun activities!
  • Beginner Spanish students love to learn family vocabulary in Spanish. Here is a week-by-week guide about how to teach it with some fun activities!

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This Spanish story focuses on the verbs: les gusta, les encanta, les interesa, les fascina, les importa. #spanish #education Click here to download the full activity: http://bit.ly/3Zw7KvA Join our mailing list! https://sws.myflodesk.com/oatz5bk0sf
Click here for full activity: http://bit.ly/3m4I6jA <br />Need an activity to teach the irregular yo verbs in Spanish? (salgo, pongo, digo, oigo, veo, hago) This variation of Little Red Riding Hood (Caperucita Roja) is just what you need! #spanish <br />SpanishwithStephanie.com
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Play this fun game with Spanish students for a movement break during class! Works for high school, middle school, and elementary students! Click here to join our mailing list! https://sws.myflodesk.com/oatz5bk0sf
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Practice the G sound in Spanish with this silly story for beginners! This is a great activity for sub plans because students will hear the story read aloud to them in Spanish and can complete activities when finished. To purchase the reading and activities, click here: https://bit.ly/3r96X3n For updates and free products, https://sws.myflodesk.com/oatz5bk0sf
Does your school use a rotating block schedule, which makes it impossible to create recurring appointments in your Outlook Calendar? Learn how to create a .csv file so you can quickly upload recurring appointments that fall on different days. Helpful for teachers and school administrators who want to stay organized and use Outlook Calendar! Click here to join our mailing list! https://sws.myflodesk.com/jkhttghotr
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