Are you looking for ways to connect with your students and build community during the first week of class? Do you want to get to know your students, but also set the expectation of "Spanish only" from the start? Here are 5 games that accomplish both of those objectives! 1. ¡Corre, corre! Students form a circle with one person in the middle. The middle person makes a true statement about ... Read More about 5 icebreaker activities for the first week of Spanish
Helping students to write more in Spanish
Middle school Spanish students are still learning the habits of writing in English, so it's really important that we provide them with tools to write in Spanish. This can include providing sentence starters, word walls, or graphic organizers. In my classroom, students write about their weekend as part of Calendar Talk. For the first month, it's ok for them to write in basic sentences: I ... Read More about Helping students to write more in Spanish
Where to start when you have no Spanish curriculum
Are you about to start a new job but don't have any curriculum? How do you know what to teach to your first year Spanish students? Over the years I have learned that Spanish departments fall into one of two camps: mandated textbook or no Spanish curriculum at all. Although I technically had a book to use, I supplemented almost everything. By the time I was done, my students never even knew ... Read More about Where to start when you have no Spanish curriculum
Unit Plan: Trains in Spanish
Navigating through a train station in a Spanish speaking country could be a real life task that students may experience. It was also a unit I needed to teach as part of our Spanish curriculum! Here are some activities I developed about trains in Spanish that I hope you find useful as well! Introducing train vocabulary in Spanish To introduce the train vocabulary to students, I told ... Read More about Unit Plan: Trains in Spanish
How to teach daily routines and reflexive verbs in Spanish
Reflexive verbs in Spanish are fun to teach because they allow students to talk about themselves! When we provide students with more ways to talk about themselves, they can share more with us in the target language. I love learning more about my students and their daily routines during this unit! Quick overview of the article: Introduce vocab with TPRDraw picturesRecall games (Quizlet ... Read More about How to teach daily routines and reflexive verbs in Spanish
5 fun activities to practice present progressive in Spanish
The present progressive in Spanish is used to express actions in progress. Because of the active nature of the verb tense, it’s a really fun structure to teach in Spanish using TPR. If you work in a school that requires you to use a textbook, but you want to incorporate more Comprehensible Input (CI) strategies into your teaching, here is a list of 5 CI friendly activities that will ... Read More about 5 fun activities to practice present progressive in Spanish
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