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About spanishplans

Spanish Teacher in Chicago. Have studied or traveled to Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Uruguay. Have taught level 1 at middle and high school levels. Degree in Spanish and Master's in Teaching and Leadership. Blogger www.SpanishPlans.org

Making connections

Posted on February 20, 2013 by spanishplans

Connections Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information “Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language” The 5 C’s of learning a Foreign Language consist of Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. We … Continue reading →

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Videos y Fotos for LA COMIDA unit

Posted on February 15, 2013 by spanishplans

Teaching a unit about La Comida? Here’s some media resources for your Spanish classroom for this Food unit: Música/Videos/Audio Canción “Chocolate” de Jesse y Joy Canción “Una en un millón” de Jesse y Joy (Cloze lyrics and activity) Youtube “Archibaldo … Continue reading →

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Resources for LA ROPA unit

Posted on January 29, 2013 by spanishplans

Teaching a unit about La Ropa? Here’s some resources for your Spanish classroom for this Clothing unit: Música/Videos Canción “Billy La Bufanda” by Señor Wooly Youtube Target Commercial Youtube K-Mart Commercial Youtube Commercial “¿Me Lo compras?“ Youtube Video Shopping Youtube … Continue reading →

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Escribir una carta a Santa

Posted on December 20, 2012 by spanishplans

Resources para La Navidad With vacation approaching and students getting ready for the holidays, today students wrote a letter to Santa. It fit in perfect with our ‘shopping’ unit to talk about items they would want or not want. For … Continue reading →

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Language Lab Activity

Posted on December 2, 2012 by spanishplans

For those of you who have language labs in your building, this post may not be very enlightening. For those of us that teach in a building without such luxuries, we too can incorporate similar assessments and practice with other … Continue reading →

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Dragon Dictation

Posted on November 28, 2012 by spanishplans

The app Dragon Dictation is an interesting app for students to practice their pronunciation. I give student a script to read from and they record themselves to see how well the computer can understand their accent. First, make sure you … Continue reading →

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Univision App

Posted on November 26, 2012 by spanishplans

Univision has several apps available for the iPad including “Univision”, “Noticias” and “Deportes”. I used the regular “Univision” app today and let my students explore different articles that would be of interest to them. I had first year students engaged … Continue reading →

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Connecting vocabulary to our students

Posted on November 19, 2012 by spanishplans

I realized something important this week while going over our unit’s vocabulary. The vocabulary is “household chores”, part of the “House Unit”. After the initial vocab introduction, we started talking about what chores students do. I quickly realized that most … Continue reading →

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Que hora es

Posted on November 15, 2012 by spanishplans

Do your students have trouble telling time? Thankfully, my school has digital clocks in each classroom and students have been able to tell me the current time. Last year, I introduced additional clocks in my room to be able to … Continue reading →

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Proficiency Based Exam

Posted on November 14, 2012 by spanishplans

At the beginning of the school year we undertook a new philosophy of teaching and assessing our students. As we discussed in our Communication Rubric post, our assessments would assess what students are able to produce themselves, instead of what they … Continue reading →

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