After the news unit, students created a news project. My colleague is writing up that project, and I will share it here as well. We had two weeks before the exam period which is lasting almost two weeks. Our students don’t take an exam (notice my uptick in blogging recently!), so my colleague and IContinue reading “Fast Food Unit: Intermediate Spanish”
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Romeo and Julieta: A story of frog love and conservation for novice high and up
Sometimes, I love a story from El Mundo en Tus Manos so much that I want to create even more materials for it. And occasionally, I have a three day weekend, so I can do that! Romeo used to be the world’s loneliest frog in a museum in Bolivia looking for a mate… until recently! Continue reading “Romeo and Julieta: A story of frog love and conservation for novice high and up”
Interpretive Reading Assessments for Novels
As I continue to balance how I assess novels and how I implement IPAs, I have played around with how I assess how students interpret the vocabulary that students are acquiring as well as the novel itself. For my upper levels, I typically could find an article that included a lot of the culture thatContinue reading “Interpretive Reading Assessments for Novels”
46 pages to add to your FVR library for free!
Ok- I will admit, I totally went with a click bait title there! But it is true! As I have admitted to before, organization is not strong suit. I have started to become better about it, but it still falls to the bottom of my list. Organized me would print off copies of my newsContinue reading “46 pages to add to your FVR library for free!”
Introduction: El Ekeko
On Monday, we are going to start with El Ekeko in Spanish 1! I am really excited to start this book! Many people ask how to use news articles. One way is to find a collection of news articles for each country To start, I had students read some of my news articles about Bolivia. Continue reading “Introduction: El Ekeko”
Summer Reading: Ditch That Textbook
I am on vacation, but I just finished reading Ditch That Textbook from Matt Miller. It was a great read! I enjoy all of his posts on his blog, but I felt like I was able to understand more of his whole philosophy by reading the book. As I have stated before, I have alreadyContinue reading “Summer Reading: Ditch That Textbook”
Comics in Spanish
Comics are a great way to incorporate easy language into the classroom. They are also easy to describe in Spanish as well as continuing a conversation. Part of the difficulty is finding the perfect one when you need it. I have been searching on this website while I watch Law and Order SVU. I haveContinue reading “Comics in Spanish”
What’s happening in my classes?
I wanted to give two small updates of what I am doing day to day in my classes. A few years ago, I shared song activities that I created the song Me Voy by Vazquez Sounds. I wanted to update it this year for a few reasons. First, their ages are off by threeContinue reading “What’s happening in my classes?”
Evolving my interpretive reading even more
With switching to proficiency, I feel like I am constantly evolving. I am always developing what I am working on with my students to support them more. Each time I give an IPA, it becomes clearer what holes I have to fill, and I change my teaching. This current project reflects what I am seeingContinue reading “Evolving my interpretive reading even more”
Working on context clues in the foreign language classroom
As I continue to work on interpretive reading, I have found more and more that I want to work on learning how to teach some literacy skills. (A summer professional development perhaps?) This most recent quiz, we did a little work on context clues. Some of the students really struggled on figuring out the context ofContinue reading “Working on context clues in the foreign language classroom”
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