Category Archives: Storytelling

Enhancing Spanish Writing Skills with Circumlocution Techniques and Co-writing a scene

Posted on May 29, 2026 by SpanishPlans

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 →

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Teaching El Cucuy: A Fun Approach for Spanish Learners

Posted on October 28, 2025 by SpanishPlans

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 →

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Mad Libs en español

Posted on December 14, 2023 by SpanishPlans

Next week I’ll be using the Spanish Lottery video of Justino with materials from the Comprehensible Classroom. In order to preview the story I used a Mad Libs activity, generated by ChatGPT which I  fined-tuned. Students worked with a partner: … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Remotely

Posted on November 16, 2020 by SpanishPlans

Despite being completely remote up until this point, I have done my best to continue to use storytelling as my main method to deliver comprehensible input in my Spanish class over our synchronous online Google Meets classes. I know a … Continue reading →

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Drag and Drop Audio with Google Slides

Posted on September 8, 2020 by SpanishPlans

Now that most of us are giving classes virtually, how can we adapt our listening activities to an online format? Even if you are presenting it LIVE as a class over a video Meeting, it’s always best to provide an … Continue reading →

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Remote Learning: El Tigre Tiene Hambre

Posted on September 1, 2020 by SpanishPlans

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 →

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Teaching Graphic Novel Billy y las Botas

Posted on December 5, 2019 by SpanishPlans

With the release of a new graphic novel by the Señor Wooly company, we wanted to give you some ideas on how you can teach with a graphic novel. If you are not ready or don’t have the funds to … Continue reading →

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A 3 day lesson with storytelling

Posted on November 3, 2019 by SpanishPlans

If you haven’t seen our latest video on YouTube, we walk you through a 3-day lesson on using a story. You can watch it below and follow our YouTube channel. If you find any videos helpful, please click on the … Continue reading →

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Previewing a Wooly Story

Posted on April 14, 2019 by SpanishPlans

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 →

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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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