Engaging Espanol

Give your students CHOICES when it comes to practicing their vocabulary! This visually-appealing choice board has 21 options to choose from for your students. Here's how I use it, but how you use it is up to you. I pick 15-20 vocabulary words (typically non-cognates), and students complete these tasks on lined paper. For the crossword creator and word search maker, I provide templates in a folder in my student center. Students have a week to do these, and depending on where you teach, they c

Looking for ideas to get your students using Spanish outside the classroom? Look no further! I've scoured the Internet and my own memory bank to compile a list of over 50 real world tasks that appeal to all students! Hitting on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences as well as various levels of Bloom's for a differentiated learning experience. Use this list any way you please. I give it to students and each week they are responsible for one task, submitted via Google Slides template (also in my store

This handy resource is great for strengthening grammar in writing, speaking, and listening activities. A great complement to a TPRS/CI curriculum! It contains the "sweet 16" verbs conjugated in the present, preterite, imperfect, and future tenses...formatted so that all it takes is a quick glance to get the answer! I like to print in color on card stock and have students put it into their classroom folders for a guide that will last all year long. On the back, I put high frequency transition wo

Print these in color, laminate, and use for HUNDREDS of activities! This file contains THE most prominent and influential pieces of art by latino/a and Spanish artists, including but not limited to: Salvador Dali Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Diego Velazquez Joan Miro Francisco de Goya Pablo Picasso

Are you a Spanish teacher looking for an effective tool to help your students master verb conjugations? Or perhaps a student seeking a quick reference to ace your Spanish assignments? Look no further! This Spanish Pronouns and Present Tense Verb Endings Cheat Sheet is here to simplify your learning experience. Product Features: - Comprehensive Coverage: Includes all Spanish pronouns along with their English translations for easy understanding. - Color-Coded Endings: Verb endings for -AR, -ER, an

Practice utensils in Spanish with the question, "¿Qué te falta(n)?" In this quick game, students guess what items from the table is missing in Spanish by saying, "Me falta(n)..." followed by the missing item. Each round, a different item will go missing from the slide. The answer then comes up so students can see what was missing. There are multiple ways you can do this activity: in partners, students take turns asking what is missing. in partner, students race to say what is missing. as a c

This helpful handout is great for a quick, at-a-glance reference for your students to use. It is formatted so that it is very easy for students to understand, with clearly delineated sections and thoughtful use of text size, bold, and italics. I like giving my students guides like these to empower them in every task we do in class, as well as deter them from relying on the dreaded Google Translate! Use it for writing tasks, speaking, reading, or listening as a scaffold for students who need a vi

Practice writing or speaking with 24 colorful illustrations of Hispanic people wearing different outfits. Students can talk about the outfits they see or write about them. You can even make a game out of it where one student describes an outfit and their partner has to guess which person they are describing. This resource goes along perfectly with the Realidades 7A curriculum!

Students practice conjugating regular -AR, -ER, and -IR verbs, including the irregular IR in the past tense. This worksheet goes along with the Realidades 1B curriculum, unit 8A. A goal is given in the instructions of 16/20 correct so that students can self-assess with your daily learning target. Here is the one I use, but feel free to modify/come up with your own!: "I can use the past tense correctly in 16/20 examples."There are twenty examples with an answer key so

Looking for the perfect first week of school activity for your Spanish 1B / second-year novice learners? Conexiones en la Clase is a low-stress, high-engagement icebreaker that reviews some essential Spanish 1 topics while getting your students out of their seats and talking to each other and reading in the TL on DAY ONE! This resource includes TWO versions, one for Spanish 1A (blue heading) and another that is better suited for Spanish 1B (green heading). Students receive an octagon divided

Practice basic bedroom furniture vocabulary with this quick labelling activity with a word bank. Two copies are included in this download: the original and an ink-saver version! The following vocabulary is included: la cama la alfombra las cortinas la pared la mesita la almohada la manta la lámpara el despertador el espejo

Students organize Spanish foods into their appropriate categories based on the type. There are two versions included: one regular version, and an ink-saving version without a background. The vocabulary is based off of Realidades curriculum, units 3A and 3B. It combines both vocab lists. There is an answer key included so that students can self-assess.

This Day of the Dead Lesson Plan contains everything you need to teach about this wonderful Mexican holiday. Whether you are in-person or remotely teaching, this lesson plan is easy to follow for students and teachers alike. Although this lesson can be completed in a day, there are options and ideas for extending it one to three days. This bundle Includes: An easy to follow, step-by-step walkthrough lesson for remote students (and you!).A link to a Google Slides that explains Day of the Dead

Get your novice learners spontaneously conversing by haggling for clothing items. This scaffolded speaking activity will even get your shy students comfortable with bartering! This is a good mid-unit exercise to strengthen those interpersonal speaking skills. Activity include four different speaking situations. They can be done all in one period, or used as a warm up each day. Also includes teacher instructions and a guided PowerPoint for students to follow, complete with a helpful, editable wo

Students label the parts of the body in Spanish with a little help from the word bank at the bottom. This clear and easy to read diagram has all of the basic parts of the body vocabulary. An answer key is included!

Looking for a visually-appealing handout for admin and parents to explain why you have decided/want to go deskless? Look no further! This handout succinctly details why world language educators everywhere are making the switch and ditching the traditional desk setup in their classroom. Using research, this handout breaks down and gives rationale to support the deskless classroom in these areas: supporting 21st-century learningsupporting multiple intelligencessupporting TPRS and CI instructional

Engage your students while teaching them WHY WordReference is better than Google Translate!Are your students relying too much on Google Translate? Do you want them to understand that context matters when choosing the right translation? This activity helps middle and high school Spanish students explore multiple meanings of common English words while learning how to use WordReference effectively. ✨ What’s Included: 20 English words with multiple meanings (example sentences provided for clea

Need somewhere to begin with your TPRS stories? Need some ideas for cognates for your novice learners and questions for the PQA portion of your storytelling? It can be hard to think of all of this on the spot, especially when you're circling the sentences and managing your classroom all at once! Luckily, this resource contains over 320 ideas in total to get the juices flowing and help you along as you ask the story to your class! The cognate guide of 250+ ideas is broken up into these four di

New to TPRS and circling? If you're anything like me, I would constantly forget all the circling techniques I learned as soon as the lesson started. I created this guide to help you and I remember the steps to story asking, statement by statement. This is great for anyone who is a TPRS newbie and needs a little help circling their stories. To use this template, I write out the whole story, line by line, printing more pages depending on how long my story is. In the idea box, I jot down distract

Give your students CHOICES when it comes to practicing their vocabulary! This visually-appealing choice board has 21 options to choose from for your students. Here's how I use it, but how you use it is up to you. I pick 15-20 vocabulary words (typically non-cognates), and students complete these tasks on lined paper. For the crossword creator and word search maker, I provide templates in a folder in my student center. Students have a week to do these, and depending on where you teach, they c