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Describing the Planets
Kids love learning about space! In this short plan, your young Spanish speakers read Los Planetas and talk about the nine planets. By the end, they should be able to name and identify each of the planets and add some descriptive words....
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Reading Comprehension: Loly la Oveja
Assess the reading comprehension of your beginning and lower-intermediate Spanish language learners with an activity. First, they read a short text, and then they complete three activities. In the first activity, they complete the...
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Sweet and Savory Writing: Descriptive Writing
The engagement is in the details. Young scholars learn the benefit of weaving descriptive and sensory details into the fabric of their writing through the activities in this lesson plan. As their hands explore items concealed in bags, a...
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The Body and the Five Senses
Read De la cabeza a los pies once for your learners before teaching them the body movements that accompany the book. Then, read it again and have the learners demonstrate the movements! There's also a chart to help reinforce some of the...
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Explore the Grocery Store and Shopping
How do you teach your Spanish language learners supermarket vocabulary? Set up the mini-supermarket, suggested here! While this isn't a lesson plan per se, the webpage contains some of the vocabulary you'll want to cover (like la...
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Hispanic Cultural Projects
Invite your pupils to educate themselves on the culture in various Spanish-speaking countries through a series culture-related projects. The resource includes a series of individual and group projects for learners to choose from as well...
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Practica de pronunciación y ortografía: ma, me, mi, mo, mu
Listening is a very important part of developing foreign language skills. Guide your beginning Spanish class through this basic activity. As you read each word, have your listeners attempt to write in the missing syllables. The target...
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Harriet the Hedgehog
Meet Harriet the hedgehog! This reading passage, written entirely in Spanish, introduces this fun character as she explains who she is and what her life is like. The following page asks readers 12 comprehension questions (also in...
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Vínculo entre la escuela y el hogar/ conexión con los libros
How does the character feel? Designed as a take-home activity, young, native Spanish speakers read four short stories with their guardians. Then, for each story, they identify how the character feels. There are three choices for each...
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¿Qué significa el dibujo? 2
Assess your beginning Spanish speakers and their understanding of written text. They look at the picture on the right side of the page and read the sentences on the left, choosing the one that correctly describes the picture. Consider...
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Vínculo Entre La Escuela y El Hogar
Give your class this school-to-home connection so they can develop skills outside of school. Your young, native Spanish speakers will tell their guardians three things they did at school that day. Then, each person signs the bottom of...
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Concise Writing Exercises
Are your pupils' essays full of long, wordy sentences? Help them to write more concise sentences with this practice worksheet, which provides twenty long sentences for your young editors to proofread. Use the activity as a homework...
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Los Volcanes Mexicanos
Students conduct Internet research on Mexican volcanoes. They explore various websites, complete a website worksheet, answer questions in Spanish, and create a timeline of a volcano's eruptions.
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Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice identifying the...
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The Weather in South America
Students conduct Internet research on weather and weather conditions in South America. They read a weather report in Spanish, and answer worksheet questions on South American countries and their weather conditions.
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The Prado Museum
Students visit the Prado Museum website. They explore the website, answer questions in Spanish, interview a classmate, and compare/contrast various artists' works and the Prado museum with a U.S. museum.
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Present Tense: All Verbs #2
Practice, practice, practice! That is the only way your Spanish language classes will learn how to conjugate verbs in the present tense. Give them this short activity as a bell-ringer or an exit ticket to assess their development.
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Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns #2
So, your Spanish language learners understand how to use direct object pronouns and indirect object pronouns, but what about when they both appear in the same sentence? Walk them through the provided model, and give them this informal...
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Direct Object Pronouns #1
After introducing direct object pronouns to your Spanish language speakers, provide them with this quick practice opportunity. This would make a great formative assessment before giving a unit test.
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Indirect Object Pronouns #2
Here's a quick, informal assessment for your class! Spanish language learners complete 10 fill in the blank sentences focusing on indirect object pronouns. They use the verbs in parentheses to finish each sentence.
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Subjunctive vs. Indicative (present only) #1
How do you use the subjunctive? Review the difficult tense with your intermediate Spanish language learners, and then give them this practice opportunity! There are only 10 fill in the blank questions, and your scholar inputs the correct...
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The Passive Voice with se
Are your Spanish speakers learning about the passive voice? They need this helpful reference tool! These examples will surely help with their sentence construction.
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Adjetivos Posesivos-Possessive Adjectives Explanation
This reference guide gives a great explanation for possessive adjectives. The examples are provided both in Spanish and in English, and the information is organized in bullet points and a chart. Pair this handout with a practice activity...
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El subjuntivo con expresiones de emoción
The subjunctive is used in different cases. Introduce your Spanish speakers to the subjunctive when it's used to indicate emotion. There's a helpful chart that introduces the expressions of emotions and a short practice activity that...