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Publicado en SpanishPlans el 12/05/2025
Engaging Group Activities for Spanish Reading Comprehension
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 25/04/2025
If you are reading a novel in your Spanish class, we’ve got a new activity that you may want to try. My 8th grade class is currently reading “La Lucha” by Melisa Lopez. After reading chapter 6, I had students take out a piece of paper and go back through the chapter and come up with a list of 20 words they felt were most representative or most important to the events of the chapter. It had to be individual words or small phrases of 1-3 words, words that shouldn’t be separated. After they had their own list, I team had them work with a partner and share lists. If a word appeared on each partners list, they would circle that word and see how many words they had in common. Then, I had...
Leer másEssential Resources for World Language Instruction
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 23/04/2025
As teachers look ahead for resources to request for the next school year, we are sharing a curated list of Subscriptions services or websites for World Language teachers. The list ranges from curricular resources that are targeted for language acquisition and development in reading, listening, and even some speaking, as well as gaming sites or lesson planning sites using AI.
MMM 25 winding down, still time to win
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 16/03/2025
We are in the last week of MMM, although the polls remain open until the end of the month, and the resources never expire. Check out our Round 2 and beyond Presentation with voting links.
The 1st semifinal went back and forth and less than 40 votes separated them before an official winner was declared. Monday and Tuesday are the final days of the 3rd and 4th quarter with the semifinals kicking off on Wednesday and Thursday and the final this Friday.
This is also the last week of our huge raffle, with tons of huge prizes available!
We’ve just added 2 new entries:
Submit an anonymous...
Win Prizes in Our March Music Madness Raffle!
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 05/02/2025
Our March Music Madness is just under a month away and we’ve got some surprises in store. The first is the unveiling of our Teacher Bracket Prediction Challenge. Teachers can fill out a google form with their picks to try and end up with a “perfect bracket”. The teacher(s) with the most points will be winning some high-desired prizes.
We are also running a Raffle to promote MMM25, with a plethora of dream prizes. The first entry? Submit the prediction bracket mentioned above! You could win a class set of novels from Spanish Cuentos, the entire Huellas curriculum from Somewhere to Share, plus subscriptions from Flangoo, Voces, Pixton Comics, Lyric Fluent, and more!
You can find all the ways to enter on our...
Get Ready for March Music Madness ’25: Participate in the Bracket Tournament!
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 07/01/2025
With a toddler and newborn, I haven’t posted as much as I would like the past year. But if there’s one thing that gets me foregoing sleep so I can work on creating… it’s the annual March Music Madness. We are happy to announce that our playlist has been shared and we are gearing up for our 12th bracket tournament.
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 26/02/2024
We are less than a week away from March Music Madness 2024. Plenty of time to get in on what will sure to be the highlight of the year for your students. We recently sat down with Claudio Elliot on her podcast Growing with Proficiency to discuss the Music Tournament. One of the key talking points is how we can use music as a way to discuss in the target language, without having to study the lyrics.
Our resource drive is growing and the one thing you won’t want to miss is the Round 1 Matchup Slideshow which has all the links...
SpanishPlansMMM March Music Madness 24
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 10/02/2024
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The 11th annual March Music Madness tournament is approaching and teachers are gearing up. Our MMM24 homepage has what you need. Don’t miss what students consistently call their favorite part of the year. Our 2024 bracket features 16 current songs (all from...
Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 14/12/2023
Next week I’ll be using the Spanish Lottery video of Justino with materials from the Comprehensible Classroom. In order to preview the story I used a Mad Libs activity, generated by ChatGPT which I fined-tuned. Students worked with a partner: they first wrote the words on a list. Then they asked their partner for their words to fill in the text. They then read the completed text to their partner.
Here’s a free copy of the activity.
You can also do it together as a class by taking suggestions from the class and then writing in their answers...
Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 06/10/2023
After different variations over the years, [FVR (Free Voluntary Reading], Lectura Libre, SSR (Silent Spanish Reading) among others] I’ve again renamed our reading time in class to ISR: Independent Spanish Reading.
To kick things off this year, we read for several days in a row to give students a chance to finish a book. We had already read 1 book together as a class to start the year (Capibara con Botas) so I started off ISR with the easiest of books that I had in my collection. When students were finished reading they submitted their name with the book they read and I created posters to hang in the hall with the book cover and the names of the students who read them:
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