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How Can a Picture Dictionary Help Me Teach ESL? Do you have newcomers in your class? Are you struggling with finding different ways to help them? Do you want something that is different than the typical newcomer curriculum? Do you just need to supplement your program that is already in place? In this post I will show you how I use this Spanish - English Picture Dictionary to help me teach my new-comer English Learners effectively. Click on the image to sign up for my email list and receive this freebie! Strategy #1: Create activities out of the themes in the dictionary, and understand some basic principles So there are some basic principles that you need to know before diving in. These are simple principles, and they build on each other. I will show in detail each one of these principles, but the basic gist is that anyone learning a language needs some vocabulary to start off. First Principle: Teach Thematic Vocabulary. Once an English Learner knows some words and phrases, they naturally want to know how to use the words and phrases. Simple! Put them into sentences. Second Principle: Bump the vocab up a notch to sentence structures. After learning some basic sentence structures, the student learning the English language will want to use discourse and talk with people. This is the fun part! You can create discourse with questions and answers. Third Principle: Bump it all up and teach discourse. It is impossible to predict the precise, actual real-world conversations that your English Learner will encounter, but we can all predict the general gist of encounters that we all have. This is how we can best prepare our learners for discourse. Some predictable discourse can include asking where different things are located, like pencils, paper, the bathroom, or the gym. Other predictable discourse pieces could include questions that are started with 'wh' words: who, when, where, what, why. 'How' question stems are more involved and will require a higher level of discourse and vocabulary than what a predictable Q & A discourse could provide. This could be tackled with sequencing or transition words like 'first, second, next, after that' etc. And of course, as we know, once a person can start talking and can use discourse effectively, then they can start to write more effectively because they know what the writing should sound like in their mind first. Strategy #2: Teach words and phrases When you are learning any language, you need to know some words or phrases. This is basic survival for anyone at any age or place. So let's narrow this down to the classroom. Your classroom can be a dual language classroom, and ESL classroom or a setting where you are teaching English as a Foreign Language. The principles are the same. Use the picture dictionary to teach words. I print the dictionary and show the pages to the children. We talk about the themes and the different words and pictures in the themes. Once you have narrowed down a theme that you want to start with you can use index cards to make your own personalized vocabulary cards with the words written on the cards. You can add adjectives, adverbs and other intensifiers to the words to create phrases and to teach additional vocabulary. I love to use a pocket chart and sentence strips to show students how to describe a noun, and how to use the correct word order in this process. Students can use the pocket chart with the index vocabulary cards that you create with them, and then they can add the descriptions to the nouns. Once the students can manipulate the cards creating the correct word order, they will naturally start to read the cards and sentence strips. This is a super fun moment!! Encourage and celebrate the moment your newcomers start to read aloud. This is so great because once they get the confidence to read aloud, they will very likely start to use these words and phrases naturally in their beginning - level discourses. If you are looking for vocabulary cards that are made for you, then click on the following links to find some in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: Bilingual Vocabulary Cards: Friends and Family Theme Strategy #3: Teach sentence structure So once you have taught basic vocabulary and you have shown your students how to describe the vocabulary words with adverbs and adjectives to make phrases, you can then show them how to create sentences. Word order is so important when teaching at the word and phrase level because this starts to form skills and habits in your students' minds. Word order is so important in sentences. Again, I use the same pocket chart idea to begin with super simple sentences that are noun-verb patterns, or adjective-noun-verb. Start simple, and build up. Use the cards and sentence strips and get your students moving by the pocket chart to form these simple sentences. When you have a chance to work in small groups at a table, write out the sentences that you are using in the pocket chart and cut them up. Have students put them in order and read the sentences to you and to each other. Take it up a notch by pairing students with a partner and having the students actually write the sentences out on paper. Then they read the sentences to each other, then cut them up, reorder the sentences and glue them on a paper or in their notebook. Of course, they will be naturally reading the whole time! When you do this, you are using all 4 domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing!! Wow!!! What a great lesson with amazing student engagement. Yay!! Strategy #4: Teach discourse with those words, phrases and sentence structures So now that you have taught word order at the word and phrase level, you've bumped it up a notch with the same principle of keeping good word order at the sentence level, now you are ready to teach questions and answers to form discourse. I know that formulaic processes may not sound fun at first, but it is the predictable formula that language learners lean on to help them get going with discourse. The best predictable formula is to form a question, and then use the same words and phrases within that question to actually answer the question. Here is an easy and simple example of the 'formula': Q: What is your favorite color? A: My favorite color is blue. In the example (super simple example!) above you can see that the same words from the question are used in the answer. Here is a slightly more complex set: Q: Where is the bathroom located? A: The bathroom is located on the second floor. In the slightly more complex set we see the word order changing from the question and the answer. This is so important for English Learners to pickup on from the start. The best way to teach this is to just dive in and practice. Another great way to get discourse going is to teach students how to describe something. They can describe the room you are in, they can describe the clothes someone is wearing, they can even describe a book cover! Click the image and go to the product in my TpT store! This is usually a skill that is taught using your newcomer books and materials in the school or academy where you teach, but you can easily amplify this process of description with the sentence strips and cut-up-sentence process that I described above. You can easily choose a page from the picture dictionary that you would like students to describe. For example, you could choose the house, and have students describe it. Provide them with the words and phrases, bump those up to sentences, and then put the sentences into a paragraph. Your kids will be so excited, and you will be so happy that they are starting to understand you and others, plus they will be reading, writing AND speaking using this formulaic process! It's not so bad after all!! In conclusion, you can use words, sentences and discourse planing as your basic principles to guide you as you teach English Learners more and more language skills. My English-Spanish Picture dictionary is super practical and can help get you going in this process. Q&A is a basic, formulaic way to get discourse started, and descriptions are a bit less formulaic and slightly more free-spirited. Be sure to check out my picture dictionary here! Or click on the image for your free picture dictionary pages! I hope you enjoy this process as much as I do. I know your students will learn quite a bit with the picture dictionary and with your encouragement and solid teaching strategies!
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How Can a Picture Dictionary Help Me Teach ESL? Do you have newcomers in your class? Are you struggling with finding different ways to help them? Do you want something that is different than the typical newcomer curriculum? Do you just need to supplement your program that is already in place? In this post I will show you how I use this Spanish - English Picture Dictionary to help me teach my new-comer English Learners effectively. Click on the image to sign up for my email list and receive this freebie! Strategy #1: Create activities out of the themes in the dictionary, and understand some basic principles So there are some basic principles that you need to know before diving in. These are simple principles, and they build on each other. I will show in detail each one of these principles, but the basic gist is that anyone learning a language needs some vocabulary to start off. First Principle: Teach Thematic Vocabulary. Once an English Learner knows some words and phrases, they naturally want to know how to use the words and phrases. Simple! Put them into sentences. Second Principle: Bump the vocab up a notch to sentence structures. After learning some basic sentence structures, the student learning the English language will want to use discourse and talk with people. This is the fun part! You can create discourse with questions and answers. Third Principle: Bump it all up and teach discourse. It is impossible to predict the precise, actual real-world conversations that your English Learner will encounter, but we can all predict the general gist of encounters that we all have. This is how we can best prepare our learners for discourse. Some predictable discourse can include asking where different things are located, like pencils, paper, the bathroom, or the gym. Other predictable discourse pieces could include questions that are started with 'wh' words: who, when, where, what, why. 'How' question stems are more involved and will require a higher level of discourse and vocabulary than what a predictable Q & A discourse could provide. This could be tackled with sequencing or transition words like 'first, second, next, after that' etc. And of course, as we know, once a person can start talking and can use discourse effectively, then they can start to write more effectively because they know what the writing should sound like in their mind first. Strategy #2: Teach words and phrases When you are learning any language, you need to know some words or phrases. This is basic survival for anyone at any age or place. So let's narrow this down to the classroom. Your classroom can be a dual language classroom, and ESL classroom or a setting where you are teaching English as a Foreign Language. The principles are the same. Use the picture dictionary to teach words. I print the dictionary and show the pages to the children. We talk about the themes and the different words and pictures in the themes. Once you have narrowed down a theme that you want to start with you can use index cards to make your own personalized vocabulary cards with the words written on the cards. You can add adjectives, adverbs and other intensifiers to the words to create phrases and to teach additional vocabulary. I love to use a pocket chart and sentence strips to show students how to describe a noun, and how to use the correct word order in this process. Students can use the pocket chart with the index vocabulary cards that you create with them, and then they can add the descriptions to the nouns. Once the students can manipulate the cards creating the correct word order, they will naturally start to read the cards and sentence strips. This is a super fun moment!! Encourage and celebrate the moment your newcomers start to read aloud. This is so great because once they get the confidence to read aloud, they will very likely start to use these words and phrases naturally in their beginning - level discourses. If you are looking for vocabulary cards that are made for you, then click on the following links to find some in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: Bilingual Vocabulary Cards: Friends and Family Theme Strategy #3: Teach sentence structure So once you have taught basic vocabulary and you have shown your students how to describe the vocabulary words with adverbs and adjectives to make phrases, you can then show them how to create sentences. Word order is so important when teaching at the word and phrase level because this starts to form skills and habits in your students' minds. Word order is so important in sentences. Again, I use the same pocket chart idea to begin with super simple sentences that are noun-verb patterns, or adjective-noun-verb. Start simple, and build up. Use the cards and sentence strips and get your students moving by the pocket chart to form these simple sentences. When you have a chance to work in small groups at a table, write out the sentences that you are using in the pocket chart and cut them up. Have students put them in order and read the sentences to you and to each other. Take it up a notch by pairing students with a partner and having the students actually write the sentences out on paper. Then they read the sentences to each other, then cut them up, reorder the sentences and glue them on a paper or in their notebook. Of course, they will be naturally reading the whole time! When you do this, you are using all 4 domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing!! Wow!!! What a great lesson with amazing student engagement. Yay!! Strategy #4: Teach discourse with those words, phrases and sentence structures So now that you have taught word order at the word and phrase level, you've bumped it up a notch with the same principle of keeping good word order at the sentence level, now you are ready to teach questions and answers to form discourse. I know that formulaic processes may not sound fun at first, but it is the predictable formula that language learners lean on to help them get going with discourse. The best predictable formula is to form a question, and then use the same words and phrases within that question to actually answer the question. Here is an easy and simple example of the 'formula': Q: What is your favorite color? A: My favorite color is blue. In the example (super simple example!) above you can see that the same words from the question are used in the answer. Here is a slightly more complex set: Q: Where is the bathroom located? A: The bathroom is located on the second floor. In the slightly more complex set we see the word order changing from the question and the answer. This is so important for English Learners to pickup on from the start. The best way to teach this is to just dive in and practice. Another great way to get discourse going is to teach students how to describe something. They can describe the room you are in, they can describe the clothes someone is wearing, they can even describe a book cover! Click the image and go to the product in my TpT store! This is usually a skill that is taught using your newcomer books and materials in the school or academy where you teach, but you can easily amplify this process of description with the sentence strips and cut-up-sentence process that I described above. You can easily choose a page from the picture dictionary that you would like students to describe. For example, you could choose the house, and have students describe it. Provide them with the words and phrases, bump those up to sentences, and then put the sentences into a paragraph. Your kids will be so excited, and you will be so happy that they are starting to understand you and others, plus they will be reading, writing AND speaking using this formulaic process! It's not so bad after all!! In conclusion, you can use words, sentences and discourse planing as your basic principles to guide you as you teach English Learners more and more language skills. My English-Spanish Picture dictionary is super practical and can help get you going in this process. Q&A is a basic, formulaic way to get discourse started, and descriptions are a bit less formulaic and slightly more free-spirited. Be sure to check out my picture dictionary here! Or click on the image for your free picture dictionary pages! I hope you enjoy this process as much as I do. I know your students will learn quite a bit with the picture dictionary and with your encouragement and solid teaching strategies!
I don't know about you, but I sometimes struggle to do enough meaningful speaking activities with my students in Spanish class. It can be really hard when they don't feel like speaking Spanish, especially in levels one and two. In my time as a Spanish teacher, I've found a few activities that are easy to use and the students enjoy and get excited for. Keep reading to find out my three favorite activities and one can't-miss tip that will change how your students speak in class!
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Hey everyone! I've been revamping some of my old lessons lately and I decided to start with greetings and formal/informal speech, since that's something we focus a lot on at the beginning of the year. Here are three of my favorite ways to practice greetings and tú vs. usted.
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Our first Reader's Theaters have been a huge success. We have performed "My Colorful Shoes" and "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive" based on stories about Pete the Cat and The Pigeon. The addition of our class microphone really took our performances to a whole new level this week. Once again Theater Thursday has become a class favorite. It is also a teacher favorite because Mrs. Mecum and I love, love, love these performances...especially the surprise break dancing and character voices! Teachers - Check out my Reader's Theater Units in my TpT store. We practice reading the scripts together on the Smartboard, then with a reading buddy and again at home with our families. These Reader's Theater are a great way to practice reading and retelling stories. Your students will fall in love with Reader's Theater.
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Good evening everyone!Tonight I wanted to share one of my favorite techniques for practicing grammar: manipulatives! I love using manipulatives after introducing the topic, but before production. It gives them a "safer" way to apply the new material, and it's really easy for me to check their understanding. I color-code my manipulatives (all first-person singular words are pink, all second-person singular words are orange, etc) so I can see at a glance who understands.
Spanish speaking activities, icebreakers & games to get students speaking Spanish!
This paper quizzer (cootie catcher) is a fun activity for students to get to know each other at the beginning or any time of the year. Color and B&W copies are included along with Spanish versions.I also have Multiplication Paper Quizzers available for FREE for anyone who follows my TpT store. F...
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Welcome to CCC Spanish Store! Please consider leaving feedback! When you leave feedback you can earn FREE TPT PRODUCTS! Also, please consider visiting my blog where I share lots of new lessons I am creating and freebies! This 6 day mini unit on 'el chasqui' from the Inca Empire is a great way to introduce students to authentic resources and to prepare for the film "Pachamama" now available on Netflix. Students will explore at least 3 different authentic resources about chasquis and will ultimately be able to complete a cultural comparison between chasquis and the Pony Express. Some fun activities will keep student engaged such as Movie talk, fun commercials, a glyph and chasqui training! Essential questions, I can statements and assessment are included! Follow my store by clicking the follow me button next to my picture. Follow me on Twitter @dowd124 Follow my blog DiscoveringCI Follow CCC Spanish Store on Facebook Follow CCC Spanish Store on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/dowd124/
Included in this product are 12 prompt slides to be used for 12 separate writing sessions. Students will use these prompts to write to their secret pen pal. All of the slides are in Spanish and are in PDF format. See this blog post to learn more about how to set up this secret pen pal activity in your class. How to stay connected: Follow my TPT store so you don’t miss new resources! Join the Heritage Spanish Club for hundreds of ready-to-go resources Check out my blog to see how I use these activities in class! Subscribe to get free resources delivered right to your inbox! Collaborate with me on Instagram (Take pictures of you or your students using this resource and tag me!) Follow me on Facebook and Pinterest ************************************************************************************* How can you get TPT credits to use on future purchases? Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment about the product. Each time you provide feedback, you'll earn TPT credits for future purchases! I appreciate your feedback as it helps me determine which products are most valuable so I can create more for you. ☺ Do you have an idea or request to make this product better? Send me an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!
Here are five bundles of some of the best Spanish activities to keep students engaged and having fun in Spanish class!
