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Expresate 1 Resources
Two months ago, we featured the textbook Expresate and offered chapter quizzes and tests for chapters 2-7 in level 1.
With the success of that post, we are today OPENING UP OUR FILE CABINET.
We present you with over 40 files and 10 MB of our files, worksheets, powerpoints, activities, projects, and other resources directly from the teaching of Expresate. After hours and hours of work creating these over several years, it is time to share:
Expresate Chapter 4
Files- 19 Documents,
Worksheets
Expresate Chapter 5
Files- 20 Documents,
Worksheets
Expresate Chapter 6
Food Vocab
Presentation
Expresate Chapter 6
Files – 10 Documents,
Worksheets
Expresate Level 1 File Pack 23 MB – Over 23 MB of files from worksheets, powerpoints, tests, assessments for Exprésate Level I. Huge savings when you buy this mega-pack.
This post will be updated as we add more!
For those that use the Expresate series, we’d love to hear your comments…. Are you happy with the textbook? How often do you use the textbook in class? Do you use the workbooks? Do you feel your have to supplement a lot? Are you considering the series during your textbook adoption or thinking of going another way?
Cognate Word Wall
A lot of Spanish teachers have the Spanish Alphabet posted in their classrooms. This visual can help show students the extra letters in Spanish and also the Spanish pronunciation. However, I take mine a bit further. I have posted mine on a bulletin board and created a cognate word wall. I use word-strips or sentence strips post-its in three colors to differentiate between verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
As we come across cognates during our learning, whether it be from stories, worksheets, videos, or anywhere else that is NOT vocabulary from our textbook, I add the word to our cognate word wall. We continue to add throughout the year.
I encourage students to use these words in their writing and to incorporate them into their vocabulary since they already know the meaning of the word.
Posted in Bulletin Boards, Cognates
Tagged alfabeto, bulletin boards, classroom, cognates
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Ser and Adjectives flashcard game
Want a more engaging way to teach adjective agreement. This flashcard game makes it fun and easy, especially for those visual students.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ser-Adjectives-Flashcards
Students will match the correct subject pronoun, the correct form of the verb ser, and the correct adjective ending making sure the sentences matches subject and adjective agreement rules of number and gender.
Includes 36 answers that the students need to match up, but you can make up hundreds more. Over 32 adjective forms, include all forms: masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular, and feminine plural.
Easiest lesson to implement right away. No prep time needed!! Print off the flashcards. Have the students cut them up in class, and play right away. Teacher calls out the English statement while students find the Spanish equivalent!
Posted in Flashcards, Games
Tagged adjective agreement, engaging, games, ser, subject pronouns
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Free Online Flashcards for vocab learning
One of my favorite websites is WORDCHAMP.com where users can practice vocabulary and language learning using digital flashcards. I have been using this website for the last four years in my classes and have found it to be an excellent tool for my Spanish students. Any foreign language teacher or ELL / ESL teacher needs to check out this site.
The site is completely free to use. (EDIT: They now charge a few of $30 for a year-subscription to use the site.) Teachers can create “classes” that their students can sign up for (free for public K-12 schools/teachers). Teachers can upload vocabulary words, and add pictures and audio. Most words on the site have pre-loaded audio from native speakers so students can hear proper pronunciation.
Teachers can assign specific drills to practice including translation, dictation, picture recognition, listening, and more. You can also create activities such as multiple choice, cloze activities, fill in the blank, and more (see pic)! Students get INSTANT FEEDBACK on their answers, and the ones they miss will repeat, so they practice the ones they don’t know even more.
All of my students have internet access as home so I have started using this website to assign homework to make sure my students practice their vocabulary. As a teacher you can see how long it took them to complete the assignment, which words they got wrong, and other information. If your student population does not have home access, take a trip to the computer lab. Be assured that every student will be engaged for the full class period.
Students DO need an account in order to practice your flashcards or to even create their own.
Posted in Flashcards
Tagged education, ell, esl, flashcards, vocabulary, webtools2.0, wordchamp
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Spanish Sub Plans
It happens all the time. A sick child. A family emergency. The stomach flu. A 102 fever. A car accident.
Things come up at the last minute either before school or during the school day. We may need to rush out of the classroom but worry how the sub can carry on the same lesson you’ve been teaching all day. Stuck at home, you wonder what you can plan that a sub can carry out.
Especially with Spanish, where it is difficult to find a sub that understands the language, we must make our sub plans do-able for anyone to step in and lead the class. Many times this leads to students working by themselves either writing or doing worksheets. Hopefully we can eliminate any plans that are just “time wasting”. We want to fill our sub folder with activities that are meaningful and engaging to our students.
This stress free (and otherwise free) lesson is something that, can be played off a computer, or burned to a CD that a sub can play on a cd player.
http://www.racebridgesforschools.com/olga_tracks/nepantla.html
9 mp3 files that can be played off the site or saved to your computer or burned onto a CD. Includes a pdf lesson plan that you can print off for a sub to help them lead discussion.
For more ready to use lesson plans…. Continue reading
Feliz 2011
Feliz año nuevo a todos
I know many of you are coming back from vacation and starting school this week. Hope your vacation was relaxing and you are refreshed and ready to dive back into the classroom. Our goal this year is to expand this blog, including more updates and more diverse entries, and hope to expand our readership. Thanks for everyone for reading this blog. If you have your own blog, please leave it in the comments and let’s network!
Keeping yourself updated:
We teach what we know and we teach what we have learned. But, of course, a language is a living, growing thing and therefore there are always changes. We must continue to keep ourselves in the loop of the latest rules and nuisances of the language. Recently, the REA has approved several changes which affect some of the items we teach at all levels of Spanish. Including new spelling rules and new pronunciation for some letters of the alphabet.
Most notably:
b – “be” instead of “be grande/alta”
v – “uve” instead of “be chica/baja”
y – no longer “y griega” but now “ye”
Accents no longer needed on:
sólo” y los pronombres “éste”, “ése” y “aquél
“Ex” no longer a separate word. Now “expresidente” “exnovio”
*(http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1338084)
We will be updating our twitter account more frequently too. @Spanishplans
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To end today’s post, we’d like to offer a lesson which can be used on the first day back to school. It’s always hectic on the first day back; students want to be talking anyway…. give them an opportunity to practice their speaking and finding out about their classmates in our Conversation Cards activity. Over 160 questions ready to use!!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Conversation-Cards-Oral-Speaking-Activity
¡Hasta la próxima!
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Country Research Project
Groups will research a Hispanic country in South or Central America although this project can be used in any geography or social studies class as well. The student project includes a presentation board, map, travel brochure, and flag. Rubric is detailed but this file is a Word file so the buyer can EDIT any part of the project or rubric to their satisfaction.
Students must research their information and cite sources. This project is great for middle school or high school Spanish classes looking to teach about the countries and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Can be used for another other country project as well (social studies, geography classes, other language classes)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Speaking-Country-Research-Project
Posted in Projects, Resources
Tagged country, culture, latin america, research, rubric, south america, spain, spanish
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Spanish 1 Book
Welcome to the Level 1 Spanish Teacher Guide. Inside you will find ready to use ideas to help you get started on being the best Spanish teacher. Whether this is your very first teaching position or you have taught before, this Guide is sure to offer you great resources. The resources included are not meant to be the end-all be all, but hopefully some will spark other ideas for you to develop further or simply just edit for your own students. Although these ideas are all geared for level 1/beginning classes, they certainly can be adapted for all levels.
Some items are ready to print and handout to students, or ready to copy onto an overhead. Other items offer ideas and tips for you to build off of. You can edit any activity to personalize it for your own class. These spanish printables are stress free and easy to use.
64 pages in total!!!
Sample Student Survey p 4
Sample Syllabus p 5-6
Book Checkout p 7
Sign out Sheet p 8
Bell Ringer Sheet p 10-11
Bell Ringers p 12-16
Idioms/Proverbs p 17
Exit Passes p 18
Homework Not Done p 18
Games, Activities, and Vocabulary Practice
Game Ideas….. p 20-21
Vocabulary Practice….. p 22-23
Oral Practice for whole class p 24-25
Vocabulario Points p 26
Verb Bingo p 27
Vocabulary Bingo p 28-30
Communicative Notecards p 31-33
Connections to Real Life p 34
Food Vocabulary Using Pictures p 35
House Questions worksheet p 36
Tener que worksheet p 37-38
-AR, -ER, -IR, irregular yo presente p 39-40
Tener and Estar Notes p 41-42
Past Tense Guided Notes ARp 43-46 ER/IR p 47-51
Using Songs in Class p 52
Project for School Unit p 54
Project for Family Unit p 55
Project for House Unit p 56-57
Project for Food Unit p 58
Project for Body Parts Unit p 59
Project for Commands p 59
Project for Clothing p 59
Project for Reflexive Verbs Unit p 60
Project for Doctor/Health skit p 61
Country Research Project Rubric p 62-63
You won’t find a collection of this many classroom tried and tested materials in once place for this great price!
Posted in Games, Lesson Plans, Projects, Resources
Tagged class games, classroom supplies, espanol, gifts for teachers, resources, spanish, Spanish 1, spanish teacher, worksheets
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Spanish Conversation Speaking Cards
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Conversation-Cards-Oral-Speaking-Activity
With winter break approaching, many teachers may be looking for some ideas and lessons to use the last few days before break. Well, you’ve found it. This lesson is ready to print and implement right away. Can be used for a whole lesson or as part of a lesson. Includes instructions on different ways to use it in your Spanish classroom.
Great activity for practicing speaking in level 1 class with the topics they are currently studying or in Spanish 2 for a quick and easy review of topics they already know and may now be able to expand on their answers.
8 different topics with at least 18 questions for each topic. Over 16o questions in total!
Cards to be printed measure 2.75 x 3.8 inches. Divided into 8 topics covered in Spanish I and maybe into Spanish II. Makes a great way to practice in Spanish 1 and works as a great review for Spanish 2.
Topics include:
Pages 1 – 3: Introductions,Days /Presentaciones,Días
Pages 4 – 6: Descriptions / Descripciones
Pages 7 – 9: Activities / Actividades
Pages 10 – 13: School / Escuela
Pages 14 – 16: House / Casa
Pages 17 – 22: Food / Comida
Pages 23 – 25: Routines / Rutinas
Pages 26 – 28 Health / Salud
Fits your Speaking or Communication Standard for learning Spanish.
1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Posted in Resources, Speaking
Tagged communication, oral activity, speaking activity, teacherspayteachers, winter break
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