Have you wanted to include TPR Storytelling into your curriculum but didn't know how? Here is a brief tutorial. Your students will love it and will become proficient quickly with this method.
Loren Harding, a college student from the US, is having a hard time keeping up with everyone in her class because she’s in a foreign country–Spain, and can't speak Spanish very well. Who would have saved the day? A handsome graduating student named Sebastian Lopez. His brown eyes and incessant blushing make Loren feel giddy
Learning Spanish with Comprehensible Input Through Storytelling. Student's Book. Third Year - Free eBook
For parents wanting to raise bilingual children, here is an interactive Spanish language app that uses the power of storytelling to engage kiddos
Inside: How to teach Spanish without a textbook– finding strategies that really work. When I got rid of my Spanish textbook, I wanted to jump right into planning. Just tell me what to do, on a day-to-day basis, please! The WHY has to come first, though. Even really good materials can go wrong if the teacher doesn’t know
Have you wanted to include TPR Storytelling into your curriculum but didn't know how? Here is a brief tutorial. Your students will love it and will become proficient quickly with this method.
For parents wanting to raise bilingual children, here is an interactive Spanish language app that uses the power of storytelling to engage kiddos
I've compiled the top 13 posts on the best strategies to provide comprehensible input including video tutorials. Click to read the posts!
This post explains storytelling and story asking in Spanish, and why you would use one or the other! Perfect for beginners!
Here are Autumn / Fall, Halloween, and holiday scenes. These are great for any level of learner, and for any language. Test yourself. How would you describe what you see in a foreign language. If y…
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Check out these easy activities and lesson plans for how to use adjectives in Spanish sentences in fun and meaningful ways.
This post explains storytelling and story asking in Spanish, and why you would use one or the other! Perfect for beginners!
Storytelling: Escribe una historia con ayuda de estos storycubes digitales. Cada dado digital tiene un contenido: emociones, eventos/lugares, personajes y objetos. Crea una historia con cada uno de estos elementos.
Today’s fiction writing exercise is excerpted from Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises, which includes lessons and exercises that help beginning to intermediate storytellers study and practi
Your students are going to love the video Alma. This Spanish Storytelling Lesson is a week-long lesson using the video "Alma", a short animation movie (4 minutes) using the MovieTalk method. This story can be adapted to fit the needs of any level. Includes: -an editable story for students to read. (Both PRESENT and PAST tense versions) -a handout of 15 scenes for students to re-tell the story -a PDF of the scenes to import to the app ExplainEverything so students can record a narration -a writing template page for students to easily count how many words they've written. -a rubric for the writing piece It also includes a follow-up story about Alma's parents looking for her. With accompanying activities such as 8 versions of alternate endings plus story-board illustrations for 4 of those endings. This product is also part of our MovieTalk Bundle, where you can save over 15%.
Looking for family Spanish vocabulary activities? Here are 10 fun ideas that will help your students learn their family vocab!
Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing tips and tricks on how I use stories in my Spanish classroom. From expectations for student participation, student jobs during a class story, to different methods to share a story in your Spanish class, I’m trying to cover everything you need to know about stories in ... Read More about Strategies for Telling Stories in Spanish Class
Carol Gaab explains the relevance of teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling to modern teaching TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) is an input-based approach to teaching language that focuses on the systematic instruction of vocabulary in a highly comprehensible, personalized and contextualized manner. Its framework and philosophy are based not only on classroom-proven strategies, but more importantly, on research in second language acquisition. The method is based on the following underlying principles: In order for language to be acquired, it must be comprehensible (Krashen & Terrell, 1983). Overt grammar instruction and/or correction has little impact on language growth
Despite being completely remote up until this point, I have done my best to continue to use storytelling as my main method to deliver comprehensible input in my Spanish class over our synchronous o…
Check out these easy activities and lesson plans for how to use adjectives in Spanish sentences in fun and meaningful ways.
Have you ever wondered about your natural storytelling ability? Take this quiz and discover The Four Types of Storytellers and why they matter.
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I got to teach Spanish today! It was super fun and super exhausting–and I only taught two-20 minute classes. Phew! How did I used to do this every day!? Mat-Su Community College has an annual “Kids 2 College” day where local fifth graders spend a day at the college and take classes. None of the kids had…
These 5 tried and true methods to get students speaking Spanish will revolutionize your classes. You'll be amazed how much more they learn!
TPRS Method: In this post, you will learn many TPR storytelling strategies that will increase your students' acquisition of the target language. You'll see video tutorials and ideas for comprehensible input.
Try out Retell the Story, a speaking fluency activity for ESL students that's interesting, fun and challenging. Your students will love it!
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I recently stumbled across a website named Pictotraductor. On the Pictotraductor website, you can type in a sentence in Spanish and it will generate the sentence using a mix of sketches and words for things that cannot easily be illustrated. (See below for link of paper shown on the left.) I can think of several uses for this, but since my students are currently reading Fiesta Fatal, a novel by Mira Canion, I created an activity to use after reading chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal. I read Fiesta Fatal with my Spanish 2 students. I am doing increasingly more grammar pop-ups on the ellos form of verbs, which means I point out the verbs that show the action of Vanesa and Julieta, and the two men that pursue them. All of the sentences on the Picto-Frase activity include the ellos form of verbs. I have two classes of Spanish 2, so after the first class, I changed a few things, and after the second class I changed a few more things to improve it. Below are the instructions on how I used it: 1. Read chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal. 2. Showed examples Picto-Frases of other sentences from chapter 6 of Fiesta Fatal on a power point. Students said the sentences in Spanish. 3. Distributed the above Picto-Frases paper (find it HERE). Students looked for the sentences in chapter 6 and wrote the Spanish sentence below the pictures. - Next time, I will ask the students to highlight or circle the word that shows the action that two or more people did. After we read chapter 6 I realized I forgot to do the sentence Bingo game that reviews Chapters 1-5 of Fiesta Fatal. Mira Canion talked about this idea at CSCTFL this spring and then Martina Bex created the game which you can find HERE and download for free. I love this version of the game because it uses sentences rather than single words.
Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.
