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Category Archives: Lesson Plans
Enhancing Spanish Writing Skills with Circumlocution Techniques and Co-writing a scene
Throughout the year, students struggled with writing due to limited vocabulary and a tendency to translate. To support them, a lesson was structured around circumlocution and word substitution using images. By collaboratively describing objects and feelings, students learned to write creatively in Spanish, enhancing their communication skills without relying solely on translations. Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans, Storytelling, writing
Tagged circumlocution, cowrite, writing
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Teaching El Cucuy: A Fun Approach for Spanish Learners
Looking for a novel way to teach about the legend of El Cucuy, but don’t want to do the traditional activities of CI? I had to think about how I could get my students to be familiar with the story … Continue reading
Back to School 2023
It’s that time of year again…. summer break is coming to an end for me and I’ll be back in the classroom for year 17 soon. Here are a few things we’ve been up to over the summer to help … Continue reading
Copa Mundial 2022
This year provides Spanish teachers an opportunity that hasn’t happened ever and will likely not happen again… the world’s biggest sporting event will take place during the school year. Normally taking place in the summer, the controversial decision to host … Continue reading
Remote Learning: El Tigre Tiene Hambre
Our second week of remote learning is underway and we wanted to share with you what we’ve been up to. My set-up All my students are working from home. I have the option to work from my classroom and I … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans, Storytelling, TPRS
Tagged back to school, distance learning, el tigre tiene hambre, remote learning, TPRS, youtube
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First Days All in TL
We just finished up our first week of school and I wanted to get this blog post posted while I still have the energy to type. For those of you who haven’t started school yet (or those who will read … Continue reading
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Tagged 90%, back to school, day 1, first day, using target languaage
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Previewing a Wooly Story
After months of anticipation, this week we started the third (and final) installment of the Billy y las Botas saga. I like to use a variety of strategies when telling a Wooly story, so this time we focused on making … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans, Storytelling, Web2.0 Technology
Tagged billy y las botas, parallel story, peardeck, predictions, senor wooly
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Online timer as CI
I was recently doing a write/pass/draw activity where I wanted to use a timer to give the class a limit. I usually just use google timer or the regular classroom timer where it counts down on a clock. Previously, I … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Lesson Plans, Resources
Tagged challenges, CI, classroom timer, Comprensible Input, games, timer
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Pre Amnesia Story
During Wooly Week 2017 Sr. Wooly released one of my now-favorite videos, Amnesia. In the video, a man mysteriously wakes up in the middle of the street and can’t remember who he is. The song is a great set of … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, mystery, reflexives, scenes, senor wooly, verbos reflexivos
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