This list of 20 simple Spanish conversation starters can be used to spark conversation from novice to advanced speakers of the language.
This list of 20 simple Spanish conversation starters can be used to spark conversation from novice to advanced speakers of the language.
Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español is an online corpus of videos of second language and heritage language learners of Spanish during oral interviews and provides supplemental activities to help viewers investigate learners’ language and proficiency levels.
A CI activity for the daily routine unit. Students read the sentences about typical routines, focusing on reflexive and yo-go verbs. They agree ("Yo también.) or disagree ("Yo no."). Suggested followup activities reinforce comprehension and/or grammar.
This short reading about the springtime has varying images that are downloadable. One is a simple reading. Another is the same reading with short questions that follow. Another is a fill in the blank story based on the picture.
Students choose a character, then answer questions to reveal which was chosen. Practices description in Spanish. Sample game
This is a video (2:03 long) resource of a woman from El Salvador talking about her childhood. Ideas for guiding students through understanding this video are given.
Simple prompts on each slide guide a discussion about school culture, from clothing and food to homework, subject matter and sports. Sets the stage for cultural comparisons, study of "se impersonal," review and extension of beginner vocabulary. Prompts could subsequently be used as a writing or speaking assessment.
Conversation slides that help students review and use frequent vocabulary. What do you do before/after....?
This resource uses a song to talk about commands and toxic relationships. There is also a portion used to review descriptions of people.
Opening reading for a beginning-of-the-year, upper level unit on describing school. Students read each sentence and decide if it describes their school, home or community. CI-friendly, but models use of the "se impersonal."
Students create a presentation comparing school customs in the U.S. and a Spanish-speaking country. Suitable culmination or assessment proyect for unit on the school. Matches well with "se impersonal," and "hay."
Essay assignment with rubric. Aligns with units about relationships and personality. Can be assigned as formative or summative assessment.
These are a selection of resources to help parents and caregivers support their children with technology. For more free resources on digital parenting like a free course see Digital Respons-Ability's digital parenting resources.
The FLLITE website contains a collection of lessons in second language literacy for various languages.
The website is the focal point of the FLLITE Project, which takes the creative moments found in everyday language use as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks.
The goal of the FLLITE Project is the publication of classroom-tested lessons based on authentic texts in different languages, for example, blogs, Internet memes, YouTube videos, slam poetry, and so forth.
All FLLITE lessons carry an open license that allows you the teacher to…
…access, adapt, and re-use any lesson; and
…contribute a lesson for editorial feedback and publication.
Spanish level 1 or 2 fruit and vegetable infographics that can be used with interpretive or interpersonal activities.
If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you!
Free practice modules for Spanish language educators
Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource that can help Spanish teachers gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers. The resource includes 17 video-based practice modules designed to strengthen your understanding of the ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines and to help you evaluate the speaking levels of your language students.
Proyect to culminate a unit about school (suitable for advanced low or mid-level review unit). Students will invent a school and all its customs. Well suited for "se impersonal." Easily adjusted to different vocabulary sets.
An up-to-date relationship story suitable for context-, grammar- or CI-based teaching, with a variety of follow-up activities. Students can answer comprehension questions, analyze the verb tenses or imagine a new ending or follow-up situations.