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La mariposa
Read Angela Royston's Ciclo de vida de la mariposa! You can show your class pictures of different butterflies that live in Mexico or Spain, or have your learners conduct puppet shows with caterpillars and butterflies. How does a...
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Cities and Countries Around the World
Briefly introduce your young Spanish speakers to different cities around the world. Identify the country they are located in, what the people are called from those countries, and the country's location on a class map. Make sure to use...
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El Dia de Los Muertos
How does the Spanish culture view death? Gain the interest of your learners by showing them a skull (if you can get one). How is this Spanish celebration similar or different than Halloween? As an extension, you could dedicate a class...
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Seasons
¿Qué temperado es? Discuss the seasons with your young Spanish learners. Read a book that correlates with whatever season it currently is where you are located. This plan suggests one from Barron's, although any seasonal book will do....
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Simple Directions
Where is it? Place a favorite classroom object (a stuffed animal perhaps) around the room and have your young language learners give you directions to find it. They have to tell you whether you should go straight, turn right, etc....
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Explore Fish
Read Animals Called Fish with your young Spanish language learners and talk about the different parts of a fish. After teaching terms like huesos, columna vertebral, aletas, escamas, etc, Learners will draw a picture of a fish and label...
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Stressed Syllables Worksheet
This instructional activity is designed for use with a rule sheet (not included here). Consider making your own rule sheet to find the stressed syllables in each of the 10 words, or remove that column of the page altogether.
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El Juego del Menú
Use this online, interactive quiz to help English language learners review types of entrees, desserts, side orders, and beverages. They put the example words in the correct category in less than 60 seconds to win! Examples include words...
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Describe Yourself!
Who are you? Where are you from? Teach young Spanish language learners how to identify themselves and where they're from. They draw a picture of themselves to help develop vocabulary for this activity.
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Describing People
With a variety of pictures, fourth grade Spanish language learners will review adjectives by describing the appearance of the people in the pictures. You will need to bring in the pictures, and consider creating a word bank of adjectives...
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Describing the Planets
Young Spanish language learners review the names of each planet. Then, in pairs, they work to complete the chart provided. What is the composition of each planet? What is the color? They learn how to describe the planets.
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Practica de pronunciacion y ortografia: lla, lle, lli, llo, llu
Practice your Spanish pronunciation by recognizing that certain syllables create certain sounds. Five syllable combinations are shown here: lla, lle, lli, llo, and llu. There are twenty words that require the learner to choose the...
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Colors and Fruit
Review colors in Spanish by presenting different photographs and asking your charges to identify the colors in each picture. Consider bringing in pictures from Spain, Mexico, or another Spanish-speaking country to make the activity more...
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Diminutivos
There are several reasons why Spanish speakers use the diminutive form. Not only is it used to indicate size, but it can also indicate affection. This plan, while not incredibly detailed, does provide some great questions for...
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Tour a Museum
Take your youngsters on a virtual tour of a Spanish museum. Select around 10 works of art to show your class. El Prado museum, in Madrid, has a great online database you can use. Select the works of art beforehand, so you're all set for...
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Weather/ Seasons
Read Un dia de lluvia with your young Spanish speakers. The firs time through, everyone listens intently. The second time, pass out props that correlate with the story (like pictures of trees and bird). Then, while the teacher reads, the...
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Exploring Numbers
Start this short plan by greeting your youngsters in Spanish. In this 15 or 20 minute lesson, you'll review numbers one through 10 before working on numbers up to 20. Use pictures to give learners something visual to count. If time, the...
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European Integration: Who and Why?
This French IV-V lesson addresses European integration into the European Union. French language learners research, discuss, and present in the target language. Online research, discussion, and presentations will take approximately 5-7...
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Animal Noises
The Spanish song, Vengan a Ver Mi Granja, provides young language learners an opportunity to expand their vocabulary. After listening to the sounds, class members name the animals and their habitats, construct puppets of the animals, and...
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Gender of Nouns
Either enlarge these slides to present to your learners on the screen, or print them for each individual. They provide a review of noun gender and definite/indefinite articles. There is a place for learners to practice on each slide.
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Vocabulary Development: Professions
Introduce your class to another way they can describe others: through their profession! Bring in pictures of different working professionals (in the setting they work), and have learners repeat the vocabulary terms you assign to each....
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Family
Use pictures of families to help young Spanish learners acquire family related vocabulary. Bring in pictures of your family and encourage kids to bring in pictures of theirs. Then after introducing the target vocabulary, draw a diagram...
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Pastimes
Use realia (like soccer balls, pictures of soccer players, jerseys, etc.) to interest your young Spanish speakers! Teach them basic sports related vocabulary and encourage choral responses from your youngsters.
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Cities and Countries
Part of studying Spanish is learning about the customs, food, and traditions of other countries. Use the links provided (and some of your own) to study Venezuela, Uruguay, Guatemala, and Peru. Elementary learners will get a glimpse of...