Author Archives: SpanishPlans

Unknown's avatar

About SpanishPlans

Spanish Educator, with focus on acquisition Educator Enthusiast I love learning about and sharing culture.

En el restaurante comic strips

Posted on January 12, 2016 by SpanishPlans

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 comic: and then have students write … Continue reading →

Posted in Authentic Resource, Resources | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Collaboration

Posted on December 28, 2015 by SpanishPlans

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 Teacher Groups). Google Drive has allowed teachers … Continue reading →

Posted in Authentic Resource | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Pedacito de Navidad Movietalk

Posted on December 18, 2015 by SpanishPlans

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:  Carta a Santa We like Jesse y … Continue reading →

Posted in Storytelling, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Authentic Resources for Recetas

Posted on December 13, 2015 by SpanishPlans

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 youtube that you can use as listening or interpretive reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Authentic Resource, Lesson Plans | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Fotografia by Juanes Embedded Readings

Posted on December 9, 2015 by SpanishPlans

In this post we shared with you our Storytelling lesson related to the Juanes song Fotografia. This story features the structures busca, llama, and está/ no está. You can download FREE Fotografia story or you can buy our editable version which also includes … Continue reading →

Posted in Storytelling | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Elf on the Shelf in the WL Classroom: Day 1

Posted on December 6, 2015 by SpanishPlans

Originally posted on La Clase de la Señora Dentlinger:
I think Elf on the Shelf is a great way to bring some fun into the classroom.  I blogged about the idea yesterday.  I shared some cultural situations the elf could…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Alma MovieTalk lesson

Posted on November 27, 2015 by SpanishPlans

My first MovieTalk and I loved it. I used the short animation, Alma, with my first year students and it went great. We were able to use the movie to practice so much language: 1) structures of quiere, puede, mira, … Continue reading →

Posted in iPads, Lesson Plans, Storytelling | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

Promoting Performance

Posted on November 25, 2015 by SpanishPlans

In a performance and proficiency based classroom, students coming from traditional classroom needs some guidance. Musicuento uses an example of a “Talking about a taco” to show the different proficiency levels. Can you use singular words to talk about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Discussion/Methodology | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Perspective through literature

Posted on November 23, 2015 by SpanishPlans

While travel is the best way to broaden your perspective, that may be a bit difficult for our students. We talk about the image below of a man standing on top of a stack of books and being able to … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Travel

Posted on November 21, 2015 by SpanishPlans

One of our recent posts had some good quotes to use at bulletin board dealing with perspective. Here are a few quotes relating travel and gaining broader perspective on the world.

Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | 1 Comment