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Use the Costa’s Levels of Thinking and Questioning in Spanish when taking Cornell Notes, Discussing in class and much more! Handout is in color to easily identify the 3 levels. My students love handouts in color and help those who are visual learners. This document is a PDF where you will find: -Color coded Costa's Levels in Spanish -Costa's Levels House for visual learners and/or lower grade levels in Spanish -Costa's Levels House for visual learners and/or lower grade levels in English

Use this Spanish Instagram Template for any class! I've specifically used it while reading novels in class where students select a character in the novel and create a profile for them hand drawing all the "posts". They absolutely loved this activity! It is identical as the Instagram Mobile version. Please note this is in Spanish and it is a PDF document.

I created this practice Email reply for my AP students and have been using it for the past 3 years due to its great success! Students will have to write about their use of social media (Snapchat) and if they recommend another student using it. In this document you will find: -Authentic AP Instructions -Authentic AP Spanish and Language Prompt -A college ruled blank document to provide to students when replying.

Use this authentic AP Spanish Cultural Comparison Rubric with your AP students to evaluate their work and have them familiarized with how they will be evaluated in the actual test. In addition, the handout that accompanies the rubric can be used for peer evaluations. I usually have students record their cultural comparison on their phones, they send me the audio clips and I play them in class. I play a student sample and as a a class we evaluate the audio using the rubric and fill out the handou

Want to get some movement in your classroom the first day of school? Get students loosened up with this enticing ice breaker in Spanish! Students are to get up their seats and walk around the classroom looking for students that can potentially fulfill the description in each one of the boxes. Description include: "Tiene ojos de color" "Toca un instrumento musical" etc. I usually tell my students who ever fill one line or the whole sheet with students signatures the fastest gets a prize (usually

Use this reading with your Pre AP or AP Spanish (or any Spanish class!) to talk about the negative effects of our use of plastic and straws. The reading focuses on how it is polluting and harming marine life. Excellent to use with the Desafíos Mundiales Unit from Temas/ Triangulo Aprobado or any other Pre AP/AP Spanish textbook. Key vocabulary words are highlighted. You can assign students to provide synonyms for better comprehension or you can provide the synonym for them. In this PDF you wil

PDF document that you cant print double sided or print individually and stack on sheet behind the other to have students study the 38 titles, authors and time periods for the AP Spanish Literature and Culture exam. Once printed and folded, the front side lists the titles, the inside lists the authors and the inside flaps of the foldable list the time periods/movements. All 38 titles are color coded by genre (cuento, novela, ensayo, etc.)

Use this 2 sided PDF handout to start discussing in your class about certain traditions and customs that they may or may not practice in their daily lives. I used this activity in Temas Unit 1 Contexto 4: Las tradiciones y valores. The handout begins with students first identifying 8 images that all reflect a tradition or a cultural practice: A. Fiestas/Cumpleaños/Piñatas B. Los voladores de Papantla C. Bailes Folklóricos D. Rosca de Reyes/Día de los Reyes Magos E. Danza de los Moros y Cristiano

Use this handout for all your AP or Pre-AP students to use during your class so they can effectively use transitional words in:-Bellringers -Cultural Comparisons -Interpersonal Conversations -Persuasive Essays -Formal email replies This handout has greatly impacted how my students use transitional words in my AP class. They start using transitional words in my class during bellringers, as I require them to answer 2-3 questions in 1 paragraph. Before giving them this handout students struggled ha

This PDF informative text is in Spanish. I use it for my Pre AP and AP Spanish students when covering the Comunidades Educativas context from the Familias y Comunidades Unit. The text focuses on an individual that makes it his responsibility to teach children in rural áreas in Colombia with this two donkeys and books. The document provides students with instructions as to what they need to annotate as well as with bolded academic vocabulary. I provide the synonyms to these vocab words to stu

This video was an absolute HIT in my AP Spanish Language and Culture class! I used it when covering Desafíos Mundiales and the problem of dog overpopulation in Latin American countries. Most of my students own dogs so this short authentic National Geographic documentary really made them emotional! The documentary itself is approximately 14 minutes long, English and Spanish is spoken, although mainly English. It is about the Homeless Dog Sanctuary in Costar Rica named "Territorio de Zaguates" an

Bring Juan Rulfo's short story No oyes ladrar los perros to life with this fun and creative project where your students will have to create a comic strip of it! Have your students know academic vocabulary, the characters, plot, cllimax, etc! In this PDF document you will find: -Student handout in Spanish that breaks down instructions step by step -A teacher rubric in Spanish that evaluates student work across 7 categories -Student handout comic strip template. You can have student's final wo

Want to sharpen your students' listening skills but don't want to show them anything too long? Want to include culture of a latin american country? This is the the video for you and your Spanish class! Video is 2 minutos long and its main focus is the rationing system in Cuba. The video includes short interviews of Cubans currently living there so your students will get to briefly hear the Cuban dialect along with answering 6 questions while listening. I usually have them preview the questions

I created this Matamoscas game for my AP kids when reviewing Sílabas tónicas and rules for accent marks. Theres 40 slides in this presentation, each with a different word to practice with. If you have not played Matamoscas before with your class, you will need: -2 fly swatters -a computer -smartboard/projector Project the PP on to your screen and have students come up to the board, each w a fly swatter behind their back. Read the word out loud to them and then the student is to fly swat the c

This is a rubric in Spanish that accompanies my Instagram Profile Template that is also in Spanish. If you have your own template, you can still use this rubric to evaluate your students work! 5 categories are evaluated in this rubric: -Información de fondo -Representación Visual y Creatividad -Contenido de perfil -Contenido de publicaciones -Calidad de proyecto I assigned this to my AP students at the end of the year while reading a novel and this made grading their Instagram Template a breez

Use this authentic AP Spanish Interpersonal Speaking Rubric with your AP students to evaluate their work and have them familiarized with how they will be evaluated in the actual test. In addition, the handout that accompanies the rubric can be used for peer evaluations. I usually play a sample of the Interpersonal Speaking prompt from the College Board Website and have students record their responses on their phones connected to a headset w mics or a laptop connected w a headset w mic and use an

Hello all! I created these posters as a way to save a couple of bucks on those expensive posters at teachers stores. My classroom was pretty empty with it its white walls until I decided to make my own posters to liven up my classroom. In this set you will find 20 posters in a PDF Document. All are 8.5"x11". You can print them out in color and then laminate them to be able to use them for multiple years like I have! Counties represented are: España Puerto Rico Peru Costa Rica Ecuador Guatemala C

Great Cuba reading I've used during the AP Unit Desafíos Mundiales to talk about the social and economic problems occurring in Cuba. I have also used this reading as for a Pre-AP class. The reading contains highlighted academic vocabulary that students are required to look up synonyms to on Word Reference for homework before discussing the reading. Or I personally provide them with the synonyms. The text contains a good variety of vocabulary for a regular Spanish class or at the AP level. In t

This is an authentic text provided by UNAM focused on the effects and causes of homeless dogs and what one should do to minimize the overpopulation of stray/abandoned dogs in México. I used this reading to cover the Desafíos Mundiales Unit from Temas. I can also apply to Vida Contemporánea and/or Familias y Tradiciones. The text is pretty lengthy, so you have two options on how you can use it in your Spanish class. Divide the reading into sections and do a jigsaw reading. Within each experto gro

Start your AP Familia y Comunidades Unit with this fun PDF activity! Students first discuss in a graphic organizar what they consider to be modern and traditional family, then they discuss with a partner and after we discuss it as a whole class. Behind the handout there are 8 images of different types of families, modern and traditional and students are to work together to identify who the family is, what type of family they are (nuclear, monoparental, homoparental, etc) , what are the family me