{Affiliate links used.} Summer is rapidly approaching. There is a plethora of ideas, books, and resources out there to teach Spanish. Here is a list of all the ideas that would work well with summer to help your students/kids learn more Spanish. {By the way, if you are a teacher and thinking of hosting Spanish summer camps, check out my series here with a ton of games, activities, and crafts to do your own camp.} Here is the unit I developed on Oceans. {Free printables available.} Si Quieres Ver Una Ballena is such a sweet and funny book about how to spot a whale. I have developed some activities for it here. Here is a post with a list of Ocean-themed books in Spanish for kids. Books for summer...a great time to read! I love doing this unit with my students in the summer! {Free printables available} Insects are another great subject to study during the summer. For the younger set, here is an activity to go along with La Oruga Muy Hambrienta. Enjoy teaching Spanish this summer!!!
Inside: A resource guide to keeping up with Spanish over the summer, for all ages. Plus, find summer Spanish classes for Elementary students! If your kids have been working hard all year in their Spanish classes, don't let summer bring on a language brain drain! Learning Spanish has so many benefits for kids and teens.
I am sharing Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match/Marisol McDonald no combina as a part of the Read Around the World Summer Reading Series. The series is sponsored by Multicultural Kid Blogs. It is an opportunity to discover wonderful children's literature and share our favorite multicultural books with other parents and
Spanish Alphabet, Language, Pronunciation and Facts Spanish alphabet has 27 letters. In 1994, the Royal Spanish Academy removed two letters (ch and ll) from the the alphabet, making it 27 letters i…
Somewhere, on Pinterest, I found many images that I felt would be useful to use for speaking or writing prompts. They are filled with so many people/animals and activities that even the most retic…
Learn these 30 common Spanish conversation starters and strike a conversation in Spanish! Free basic Spanish conversation pdf and audio!
Spanish tests for beginners. Practice Spanish gender, articles and plural. This set of worksheets is suitable for beginning learners. Students can practice and repeat gender, definite/indefinite articles and different plural forms. Test your Spanish worksheets are very useful for revision, homework ...
With summer vacation on the way, students can’t get comprehensible input from their teacher. But there are some activities that can provide enrichment for students over the summer or allow th…
Okay, I know you have been hearing a lot about rhyming from me and I promise this will be the last post (at least for awhile!). I just finished reading the book Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to our Children will Change Their Lives Forever. It was SOOOO good! Seriously, it summed up practically everything I learned in all my hours of Masters classes to get my M.Ed. in Reading. It is an easy read and it will make you want to grab your kids or borrow someone else's and go read lots and lots of books together. If you are a teacher or a parent, it is an essential read! As I was reading, Mem Fox began to speak about, you guessed it, RHYMING! :) She says: From songs, children learn words, sentences, rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, all of which they'll find later in the books they read. Kids who can't recognize the fact that two words such as bed and Fred rhyme -- and there are many such kids -- have a hard time learning to read, whereas those who can rhyme are able to make more inspired and more correct guesses about what a particular word might be when they are reading. For example, in "Mary Had a Little Lamb," a child familiar with the rhyme would have no difficulty in reading the last word go because it so obviously rhymes with snow: Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. Rhymers will be readers: it's that simple. Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight. So, now do you understand why I have been on a rhyming kick? I have listed below some fun books available in Spanish with lots rhyme. This is a short list so please leave your suggestions below in the comments! As Mem Fox says later in the book "Beginning readers also need to know that the language in sentences usually makes sense." Good rhyming books add to students' ability to make sense of that they are reading and predict at the micro-level the word or words that are to come next. I love to play "Guess the Covered Word" using sticky notes in books. Using Doreen Cronin's book above, I covered the word colchón to see if students could use both meaning and structure to correctly guess the word. As you play the rhyming games like those here, here, and here, it is important to always bring that skill back into the context of real text. What are your favorite books for sharing the love of rhythm and rhyme with your students?
Inside: Free resources to learn Spanish online with kids. More and more, parents are realizing the benefits of learning Spanish and want to do what they can at home. According to Eton Institute, “Language learning helps develop strong cognitive skills, such as a better concept formation, mental flexibility, multitasking, listening skills and problem-solving, in addition to
We still don't know what the fall of 2020 will look like in terms of Spanish learning at school, but whether it's remote, in the classroom or a combination, it will be easier if we keep children engaged with the language now. These Spanish choice boards are one way
Got a kid crazy for Mad Libs? This summertime edition of the classic kid's game works on writing "hardware" that kids encounter in later elementary years.
Inside: What is comprehensible input? How do students acquire language? In Part 1, we talked about proficiency: where we are going in the language classroom. Here in Part 2, I’ll talk about acquisition: how students take language in. If our goal is students who “rise in proficiency” (World Language Classroom), how do they grow? What do they need? What is the
When I am working in Latin America, I keep my eyes open for authentic games I can use in my classroom. A group of students in Nicaragua recently introduced me to a Spanish question game called El Repollo. Be sure to check our complete collection of traditional Spanish games
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There are quite a few free (or almost free) resources and games to help you teach Spanish to your children or yourself! We hope you enjoy these!
Trabalenguas are a great way to train your tongue and other relevant muscles for better Spanish pronunciation. Try these 10 Spanish tongue twisters.
Great resources to support your child's language learning and teach your kids Spanish even if you don't speak it.
Start learning spanish with these FREE printable beginning worksheets focusing on greetings and polite words!
Inside: Tips and resources to learn Spanish with kids, at home. “Oh, I would love for my children to learn Spanish. Your kids are so lucky!” I hear this one often.Really, ask anyone if they’d like their young children to speak a second language and the answer will be YES. Of course we would! But
Inside: Shifting our thinking on speaking in the language classroom, and creating space for confident speaking. As a new teacher, I was determined to get my students speaking. Everybody wants to get their students speaking, right? It’s the holy grail of language class: communication, conversation. I mean, why are we teaching Spanish, if not to produce students who
Inside: End of the year games for Spanish class. The end of the year can be… interesting, right? Everyone is tired, you have run out of ideas, testing has already been done, and summer is on everyone’s mind. Here are some ideas that work with ANY unit or theme and put all the summer energy to
We all learn in different ways. That’s why it's smart to teach your kids Spanish in a way that works for them. These 25 methods will help.
Reading and listening are the core components of comprehension based language classes. We know that students acquire language when they hear and read messages that they understand–so read and listen they will! Sometimes, we share short, easily digestible texts with students. Other times, we need to read a text of a significant length in order…
Our 2014 winner is Cristina Mella, a Spanish teacher whose funny video will show her students the kind of short story they can create themselves -- en español, por supuesto!
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Get to know ten of the best Spanish novels to help improve your language skills in Spanish. Great for Spanish learners of all levels- beginner, intermediate, and advanced!
19 Wonderful Bilingual Spanish Picture Books. This collection of picture books celebrates Latinx culture, heritage and language.
Spanish podcasts can be an effective tool for helping people learn a language. Here is a list of the best podcasts for learning Spanish.
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.
Bring languages to life with this online Spanish curriculum that's perfect for homeschoolers. Finding a program that would keep her interested and engaged hasn’t been easy though. So, when we heard about Foreign Languages for Kids
With summer vacation on the way, students can’t get comprehensible input from their teacher. But there are some activities that can provide enrichment for students over the summer or allow th…
Click on the image above for these free passages! These free reading comprehension passages are summer themed but can be used any time of the year. The nonfiction passages are a fun and easy way to get students settled at the beginning of class! They can also be used for homework or in a reading center. Enjoy! Christina
The game I Spy in Spanish is called Veo veo. It is a quick way to have fun with language, and you can easily adapt the game to different levels. This summer version incorporates reading by using a set of cards with descriptions. Play this Spanish I Spy reading
More than a century ago, epidemiologist Dr. Thomas Tuttle prescribed face masks and social distancing to slow the influenza pandemic. He made a lot of enemies—but it worked.
Take your kids on a bilingual marine adventure with our ocean-themed Spanish resources and lessons. Books, songs and printables included!
Knowing the words of the four seasons in any language you want to learn can be really helpful as they are rather frequently used words. Korea has four very distinct seasons with a very hot and humi…
