We just finished the fifth week of school. This year in my level one Spanish classes I am focusing on "Special Person" interviews. I am not teaching to an overt grammar syllabus. I have not done any units. I have not even told any stories yet. I am focusing [...]
The students are the curriculum for the first several weeks of Spanish I. We are interviewing students and talking daily in class with lots of repetitions of compelling content wrapped in high frequency vocabulary . Here is the second timed writing of the year in Spanish I. It is [...]
TPRS works. This is an essay that a Spanish I student (non-native and no background in Spanish) did in class. Before teaching with TPRS my students never came anywhere close to results like this. Student read Blaine Ray's Patricia va a California in Spanish 1 over a period of [...]
At this time of the the year one of the most common songs in Spanish classrooms has got to be Eres Tú. The Spanish singing group Mocedades launched to fame in the U.S. in the 1970's with this simple tune in Spanish filled with images of affection. I remember learning [...]
There are examples of recent student essays on the "Free Stuff" page on this website. Look in the "Workshops Downloads" section. Students wrote these essays in class after we had read and discussed three versions of the legend of La Llorona the day before. All reading and discussion was [...]