I highly recommend using Sock Puppets for comprehensible input. Sock puppets have many advantages over regular puppets. First, they have a variety of adorable characters with settings that allow you to change voices, motions and backgrounds.
My blog is dedicated to helping World Language teachers reduce burn-out by providing teaching tips and strategies that save time, improve the learning environment, engage students and lead them to proficiency in Spanish and French.
This post is just to collect all free material in connection to the Agile in a Nutshell poster. Links to all the different translations, a free Power Point with the graphics and videos explaining the…
7 Ways to Use Interactive Notebooks in the World Language Classroom: In this post I show you how I use interactive notebooks in my classroom.
What are Chat Mats and how do Spanish and French teachers use them to improve proficiency? Read the post and get tons of free Chat Mats!
Back-to-school tip for your World Language class. If you do this, your class will be able to begin functioning in the target language sooner.
How to Plan a Great Closure Activity for World Language: Finally! Here is the World Language Lesson Plan Check List I’ve been promising you. This post lists the most important elements of an effective closure activity and offers 17 ideas to help you determine if your students got it.
How to Choose Effective Practice Activities for World Language: This is the sixth in a series of seven posts about How to Write Effective World Language Lesson Plans. In this post, we will be discussing how to choose effective practice activities, the, “guided practice” portion of the lesson plan. Get FREE lesson plan!
Don't drill and kill the preterite. Make the preterite fun and soon your students will be talking fluidly about what they did and what happened in the past. Here are some ideas and activities that will make studying the preterite tons of fun for students.
Do you feel overwhelmed when it comes to lesson-planning? Would you like to know how to easily write effective world language lesson plans? This blog addresses the direct teaching component and simplifies the process for you.
If you love using TPR Stories or comprehensible input, have you asked yourself, “Do I plan my lesson around the story or plan the story around the lesson?” It depends on if you use targeted or non-targeted comprehensible input.
How to Add the Best Comprehensible Input: An effective lesson plan includes plenty of comprehensible input. What does that look like? What input is optimum? This blog gives many examples of effective types of comprehensible input including reading and audio.
If you love using TPR Stories or comprehensible input, have you asked yourself, “Do I plan my lesson around the story or plan the story around the lesson?” It depends on if you use targeted or non-targeted comprehensible input.
Four tips for how to motivate unmotivated learners: The school year is almost over and I marvel that the hurricane of energy in my Spanish One class has funneled itself into an orderly group of students who speak Spanish and seem to love learning. Here are some of the strategies that have kept my students engaged.
Don't drill and kill the preterite. Make the preterite fun and soon your students will be talking fluidly about what they did and what happened in the past. Here are some ideas and activities that will make studying the preterite tons of fun for students.
What are Chat Mats and how do Spanish and French teachers use them to improve proficiency? Read the post and get tons of free Chat Mats!
Don't date a teacher: Hilarious post citing all the reasons you should not date a girl who teaches.
Teaching French question words can be so fun with engaging activities. Click here to find effective speaking and writing activities for French beginners.
«Estar en las nubes» es una expresión que usamos continuamente para indicar que uno está muy distraído o distraída sin concentrarse en lo que se debe concentrar uno, soñando con otras cosas Algunas…
What are Chat Mats and how do Spanish and French teachers use them to improve proficiency? Read the post and get tons of free Chat Mats!
Want to know how to keep students from using Google Translate? Here are 7 proven strategies to keep students away from online translators.
I've compiled the top 13 posts on the best strategies to provide comprehensible input including video tutorials. Click to read the posts!
How to Check for Understanding: In this blog we will talk about how and when to check for understanding, what strategies to use, different ways to check for understanding so the teacher can quickly assess student comprehension and determine if he/she needs to reteach.
Speaking assessments: I share how I tested speaking proficiency in French and Spanish and still had time to teach. Free rubrics and activities
83 FREE attention getters for Spanish One, organized by topic. Includes 72 memes, 11 video songs, all with PowerPoints that cover the Spanish One themes.
Want to blog but feel overwhelmed by ALL the info out there? Here's my list of my favorite blogging tools for beginners to get you started smoothly!
Learn how to write an essay in Spanish! With this guide, you'll learn to make your Spanish essay cohesive, persuasive, and as professional as possible.
The best way to teach vocabulary in world language is to use a variety of strategies and activities in order to provide sufficient amounts of comprehensible input.
The field of language teaching is always on the move. Every decade or so there is an innovative way to approach language teaching. For a recap of the language teaching methodologies that have sur…
In this post you will see 3 tutorials on how to use Google Classroom and how to upload files from your desktop, Google Drive, Youtube into Google Classroom.
You've heard comprehensible input is crucial to second language acquisition, but why? Let's break down the important research for teachers..
Check out 10 of the best books to learn Spanish! This list includes grammar books, vocabulary textbooks, and practice workbooks.
Children can learn Spanish colors, numbers, clothing and more by being exposed to words, phrases, and sentences for free online!
April 2020 How do students acquire a second language? Input, input, input! It is so important for them to hear and see the language in context. I have really beefed...
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This EDITABLE calendar set is available in powerpoint plus google slides. They're in English, French, and Spanish. The months range from August 2020-December 2021. ___________________________________________________________________ Did you know you could earn TPT Credits? Remember to leave feedback in order to earn credits towards your next purchase. Let’s connect: Instagram Facebook Blog
Writing in Spanish is one of the most important skills you can acquire while learning the language. Learn to improve your writing in Spanish!
Creating Unique Images With Font Design Hey there! Welcome to this follow-up demo to the cool text fonts roundup post. We’re going to demonstrate how to create font design image templates in PowerPoint and how to vectorize letters from artistic fonts to create a unique and stunning look for
Don't date a teacher: Hilarious post citing all the reasons you should not date a girl who teaches.
Spanish Resources, Everything You Need to Successfully Teach Spanish 4: Here are all the resources, activities, videos, online sites I used.
In this post I show you how to use FlipGrid for distance learning and also three quick ways to make your files Google compatible for us on Google platforms.
As I mentioned in my post on the benefits of foreign language for travel, I think that learning the basics of the language to any country you visit is a great way to bettter experience the local culture. If you’ve read my post on Sagunto, you may know that I studied abroad there and speak it at
Have your students create their own "Instagram" post with these templates! A fun, engaging way for students to present information in a format they know and love. This resource includes: 4 Instagram Post templates 2 Templates allow for larger captions 2 Templates allow for shorter captions This activity can be used with all levels of Spanish! I use it in my Spanish 1 and 2 class for students to share information about their daily routines at school, their hobbies, and their families. In Spanish 3, 4 and 5, students write about things they did (past tense) or things they will do (future tense). I love having students comment on each other's posts to get extra writing practice. I hope you and your students enjoy this FREE resource! Srta. Demos .............................................................................................................................................................. How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page on TPT. Beside each purchase you've made, there will be a Provide Feedback button. After you click this button, you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I genuinely value your feedback and love learning about how you used these resources in your classroom!
Are you struggling to use the target language 90-100% in your world language classroom? Here are a four tips that have worked well for me.
Timed writing is a great way to assess your students, but it can be overwhelming to get started. Check out these easy, actionable tips!
Hello there! I hope you are having an amazing day so far. Today I wanted to talk to you and give you some tips in relation to verbs. If you...
