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Authentic Resources for Recetas
If you are looking for some comprehensible input for your food unit using authentic resources, then we’ve got something for you. We’ve transcribed a few authentic cooking tutorials in Spanish from...
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Pedacito de Navidad Movietalk
If you are looking for some authentic resources for La Navidad,check out our post with includes: -a template for writing a letter to “Papa Noel” : Carta a Santa requirements -the letter template:...
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Collaboration
Thanks to the internet, you are never a department of one. The free exchange of ideas and collaboration is rampant on the web, with such social networks as Twitter (#langchat) and Facebook (Spanish...
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En el restaurante comic strips
We’ve taken the language out of a few authentic comic strips and used them as a writing assessment for students for students to write the dialogue of ordering at a restaurant. Take this Condorito...
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Un Besito Mas
Amor is the most used word in Spanish pop music, followed by vida, día, noche, and corazón. We recently took the lyrics from Jesse and Joy’s new album “Un Besito Más” and found the top 50 words that...
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Monstruo del Armario MovieTalk
Our theme of creepy movies used during MovieTalks continued with the 2:50 video from Pablo Conde titled “El Monstruo del Armario”. (We’ve also used Alma, and a video I call Toc-Toc) This movie worked...
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La Criatura Story Continued
I used Martin Bex’s La Criatura story with my level 1 class a few weeks ago. The next day we continued that story to explain what happened to the “criatura”/science teacher. We were able to recycle so...
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MarzodeMusica 2016
March Music Madness 2016 is just around the corner. We are ready for another fun competition where songs go head-to-head to decide a winner. This years bracket features 16 songs and we’ve broken them...
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Stocking the Spanish Classroom: What supplies to order
Whether you are starting at a new job, opening a new school, opening a Spanish department, or just getting ready for next year, lots of teachers are looking for suggestions of what are must haves for...
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March Music Champion
And the winner is…. I had the students fill out a survey as part of the voting process and here’s a few key notes: 10 students added a song to their Spotify playlists 16 students downloaded a song on...
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March Madness Book Tournament
Our March Music Madness was a huge success, so today we’d thought we’d offer an alternative that you may have seen from LA/LIT teachers or in your school library. This is a book tournament of novels,...
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Writing a Novel Chapter Summary
Our students just finished the first three chapters of the novel Esperanza by Carol Gaab, of TPRS Publishing. So far, so good. I’ve been using the Teacher’s Guide, which is very helpful. And the audio...
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React in Spanish
Something I wish I would have done at the beginning of the year: Put a sheet of common Spanish expression on the students’ desks. Having them on each students desk or table, as opposed to a poster,...
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Class Dojo in Spanish
I recently started using the App ClassDojo to track student participation/incentivize students to speak only Spanish. I know some teachers give participation points, some use a system where they hand...
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Immigration with Esperanza
I have been using the TPRS Publishing novel, Esperaza, with my 8th grade class and over halfway through the book, it has been a success. My students have particularly enjoyed listening to the audio...
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Videos for Esperanza
While teaching the TPRS Publishing novel, Esperanza, we watched an interview with a Honduran coyote. The coyote talks about the business of human trafficking and bribing officials along the way as well...
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$100 Teacher Appreciation Giveaway
Spanish teachers on TpT have teamed up to offer you a fun & fabulous giveaway as our way of saying THANK YOU to our followers! We have 2 thank you prizes for our followers: – $100 TpT gift card –...
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Appropriation in Education
I’m glad to see many people responding to our #MasQueSombreros /#MoreThanSombreros challenge and enjoy the new hashtag #ReclaimCinco (on Instagram and Twitter) As educators, we must demand the end of...
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Making your own CI movies
After my class finished reading the TPRS Publishing novel Esperanza and were working on their final projects, I spent some time playing around with an iPad and ended up making a video for chapter 1....
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Top 100 Language Lovers
We have once again been nominated by Babla’s Language Lover’s competition in two categories. We would love your vote for “Spanish Plans”. Top 100 Language Learning Blog Top 100 Twitter Accounts...
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