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Save hours of prep and use these lesson plans to help your students make cultural connections to the 2021 Sony Dreamworks film Vivo! These plans are ideal for pre-viewing, but can be used to extend post-viewing as well. Students will view a series of videos with a variety of scaffolded questions and reflection activities to dig deeper into the movie's setting and musical inspirations including: A news article with interviews from Lin-Manuel Miranda (co-creator and voice of Vivo)Celia Cruz (the

Have you shared different legends and folklore from Latin America with your students? Now have them create their own legend (ideally using present, preterite, and imperfect tenses)! Use this group project to assess your students' writing and speaking in a creative way that they will love. This completely editable document includes: - detailed directions and expectations - daily focus activities and deadlines - a brainstorming / note-taking page - a list of supplemental vocabulary (to

Struggling to get your Spanish students to actually talk during discussions—and stay in the target language? Try this student-friendly chat mat to support your language learners. Includes: Story elements vocabulary“En vez de decir no sé…” alternativesSentence stems for expressing opinionsHigh-impact analysis stemsOptions to ask for clarificationWays to agree, disagree, and share opinionsBuilt-in support for using text evidenceSupport for connecting ideasPerfect for: Literary circles or book

Looking for a way to reinforce locations AND prepositions with your students? Look no further than this visually appealing map activity, in which students must interpret various statements and clues in order to identify vocabulary and write appropriate sentences. Included are 8 vocabulary description sentences, 10 True/False + correction questions, and an answer key! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to provide

After introducing direct object pronouns and travel vocabulary, help your students practice using DOPs with this high energy game! Students will work in teams to piece together sentences in a relay fashion. The first team to have their sentence in the correct order wins a point! Your purchase includes: - Teacher instructions - Sentence pieces - A PowerPoint with 22 practice sentences The vocab used reflects travel vocabulary from Avancemos 2, Unidad 1, Leccion 1 and reinforces the words tha

Get your students out of their seats and speaking in the target language! This "human scavenger hunt" or "human bingo" activity asks students to talk about their weekend plans - where they are going and what they are going to do. Students ask and respond in full sentences to practice the structure IR + A. This activity can be set up as a race against classmates or against the clock, or as a simple, laid back speaking practice. You can further extend the speaking by having students ask a follo

We don't always have the time, budget, or energy to take our students on the amazing trips we wish we could... But thanks to the awesomeness that is technology, we can still help them explore the beauty and culture of foreign cities. With this editable three-part mini-project, your students will use Google Maps Street View to tour a Spanish-speaking city (and even see inside some buildings!) while picking up on cultural cues and comparisons. You can use this editable project to assess your stud

NO PREP!If your students are as competitive as mine, then they will love this editable review game! Students who know the answer to a question (or want to take a risk) stand up to try and earn their team points. Stealing allowed! This version will review: - the verb SER and its forms - adjective vocab - adjective agreement - definite articles - indefinite articles Questions are labeled as red and blue in order to combat complaints of fairness. As question format varies and points are stolen, you

I read about Running Dictation from the Comprehensible Classroom blog by Martina Bex. While I have made some modifications from her version, this highly engaging, cooperative activity has become a staple in my Spanish classroom. Your download includes: - a PDF document with teacher directions and projectable student directions - a lined writing page - a boxed drawing page

Looking to give your students contextual exposure to the verbs ser and estar? Use this story to preview different forms of each verb! After students read through the story, they will engage in focused scanning to identify the verbs and then analyze when to use each. Perfect for those who have taught using vocabulary structures from the SOMOS 1 curriculum by Martina Bex! The file is formatted as a Google Slide, allowing you to upload a copy for each student in your Google Classroom. If you see a

Eliza is a young woman who travels often for her job. Read all about how she prepares for different trips. This reading is great for: reinforcing travel vocabularyreviewing time, weather, clothingintroducing reflexive verbs (se despierta, se cepilla, se va)Your download includes: 1 full page of comprehensible reading3 identification questions2 synonym/antonym matching exercisesA vertical conjugation rewrite (students rewrite from the 1st person perspective)If you see any errors, please send me a

Marco and Mario are two twin brothers who are very picky. Their poor mother just wants them to be healthier! The story includes: 1.5 pages of comprehensible readingEmbedded "Párate y piensa" comprehension questionsPersonalized extension questionsThe story target the plural forms of gustar in context. Ideal for a classroom that supports (or is interested in) Comprehensible Input, and works well with the SOMOS 1 curriculum. Teachers who use Avancemos 1 will also find this resource helpful for in

NO PREP!If your students are as competitive as mine, then they will love this editable review game! Students who know the answer to a question (or want to take a risk) stand up to try and earn their team points. Stealing allowed! This version will review: - the verb SER and its forms - adjective vocab - adjective agreement - definite articles - indefinite articles Questions are labeled as red and blue in order to combat complaints of fairness. As question format varies and points are stolen, you

Introduce or review classes vocabulary with this visually appealing PowerPoint. Students are given detailed sentences to determine which class is being described. The sentences include common irregular verbs, as well as regular present tense verbs.

I wrote this story for my Spanish 1 students last year. I introduced it toward the beginning of the year after introducing GUSTAR and love it because they really see how much they can understand after just a short time in Spanish class. It is also a great way to reinforce cognates, as this story is cognate-laden! Plus, Harry Potter references which never seem to get old. Your download includes both PDF and editable Word formats. ___________________________________________________________________

Looking for a more engaging, less obtrusive way to test your students on their understanding of adjectives, agreement, and the verb SER? Have them create their own Kahoot! That means NO PREP for you! This PDF file provides students with step-by-step instructions (with pictures and examples) for creating their own Kahoot to show what they know. They are asked to write a minimum of 10 questions describing different members of their family and forms of the verb SER. The file includes: - Goals an

Get your students out of their seats and using their vocab as they ask their classmates about their families with this human scavenger hunt! ***Like this product? Please leave feedback for me and earn TpT credits for yourself!

NO PREP! After introducing Día de los Muertos, use this activity - which guides students through the Smithsonian Latino Center's Theater of the Dead - to delve into the history and culture of DDLM and also allows them to create their own ofrenda. Your download will include two Word Doc versions: - DDLM - for hard copies or students - DDLM Google Classroom - to be uploaded to your private Google Classroom page for students to complete ____________________________________________________________

Assess your students listening skills and comprehension of telling time with this quick activity. Included: - Student answer page - Teacher script - Answer key

I use this as a quick whiteboard review after introducing colors and numbers 1-50. Students will count different shapes and then work simple math problems to practice writing out numbers in Spanish. Simple and effective! _____________________________________________________________________ Please feel free to leave a rating and comments!