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

Top 10 Novels for Spanish 1

Posted on October 15, 2018 by SpanishPlans

One of my favorite things in my Spanish 1 class is implementing Free Voluntary Reading time (FVR) aka SSR. It is probably the most important thing we do in class. If you need convincing of that, then you need to … Continue reading →

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Story with 5 Phrases

Posted on September 29, 2018 by SpanishPlans

I was going through some old blog posts the other day and happened upon one that reminded me of an activity that I learned from Carol Gaab at the first annual Comprehensible Midwest. I ended up using it as a … Continue reading →

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Chapter Recaps with Images

Posted on September 17, 2018 by SpanishPlans

This year I hit the gates running with a class read of the Fluency Matters novel “Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro”, a super easy and fun reader. I usually like to act the chapter out before having the students read … Continue reading →

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Timed Writing Prompts

Posted on September 8, 2018 by SpanishPlans

If you purchased our World Language SLO product earlier this summer, make sure you have redownloaded the updated product, as we added a second picture prompt in late August. The characters in the first prompt are designed to be ambigious. … Continue reading →

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4 million

Posted on August 28, 2018 by SpanishPlans

During last week’s first days of school, our blog passed the 4 million total views mark. Wow, what an honor to know that thousands of Spanish teachers around the world have visited our blog. We are truly amazed to see … Continue reading →

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Papel Picado Bulletin Board

Posted on July 30, 2018 by SpanishPlans

Most teachers will use paper from the butcher paper roll to use as a background for their to their room, we have some classy alternatives in mind:bulletin boards. I don’t blame them: it’s available and it’s easy. Most schools provide … Continue reading →

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Vocabulary in Context

Posted on July 25, 2018 by SpanishPlans

As we looked at the last data collection of student vocabulary, we were a bit surprised that some words had lower correct responses than we expected. So we decided to do a little educational research and what we discovered really … Continue reading →

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SLO and Vocabulary

Posted on July 23, 2018 by SpanishPlans

SLO 2: Vocabulary Growth See our preview post about using Timed Writing to track student growth as part of our our teacher evaluation. (Referred to as SLO or SGO in some states). Our second SLO (Student Learning Objective) was to … Continue reading →

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World Language SLO with Timed Writing

Posted on July 20, 2018 by SpanishPlans

Many states now require teachers to show evidence of student growth as part of their teacher evaluation. One such example is the Student Learning Objective (SLO). This collection of data can be laboring, but it can also be useful as … Continue reading →

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How to print a glossary for a book

Posted on June 11, 2018 by SpanishPlans

  In the past, we showed you how to take an entire text and put ALL of the words into a glossary. This is especiallu useful when you’ve written a class story and want to print a small booklet for … Continue reading →

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