Spanish Class Lesson Plans for Middle & High School

If you’re looking for Spanish lesson plans for middle school & high school students, you’re in the right place! This blog post includes lesson plan templates, unit planning tips, and, of course, free lesson plans you can use with your Spanish students. Let’s dive right in!

Spanish Lesson Plans

​Spanish Lesson Plans Template

When it comes to planning, sometimes it feels like you’re staring at a blank slate and have NO IDEA where to start. In this blog post, I share a lesson plan template for Spanish teachers you can use to plug in the components of your lesson and fill your class period. 

The outline I like to follow is:

• Start of Class Routine – Check in, calendar talk, weather talk
• Daily Routine – Weekend Chat, Special Person, Música Miércoles, Special Person Interviews, and Movie Talk or Picture Talk
• 2-3 Learning activities to deliver comprehensible input – these might be reading a short story, doing a close reading, some independent work, it just depends on where we are in the unit!
• Formative Assessment or Exit Tickets

Learn more about the template and putting the components together in the blog post here!

Distance Learning Spanish Lesson Plans Template

If you’re teaching 100% virtually, you know you can’t use a normal Spanish lesson plan. And I don’t know that there is a perfect way to do language learning virtually, but I certainly learned a lot when I worked on it!

Learning a new language can be tough, and most Spanish curriculum isn’t designed to be taught virtually, so it can be tricky. Check out my blog post here for a great way to organize your print lesson plans into a digital, distance learning template!

Spanish Unit Plans

Unit Planning

While lesson planning is the day to day, let’s zoom out at look at more Spanish teaching resources for a longer stretch. Check out how to create a unit plan that goes beyond vocabulary lessons.

It can be so much fun to build in interactive ways to learn the target language! Whether you create a thematic unit, or center it around Spanish songs, video clips, or a short story, there’s lots of options for interactive activities and Spanish materials to help your students learn.

Take a look at some step by step ideas for planning your unit fun of engaging comprehensible input activities for your students in the blog post here!

Complete Unit Plans

If your school doesn’t have Spanish textbooks, or you just don’t like them, check out these resources for complete unit plans!

• Cognates Spanish Lesson Plans
• High Frequency Verbs Unit 1
• High Frequency Verbs Unit 2
• High Frequency Verbs Unit 3
• Days of the Week and Months of the Year Spanish Lesson Plans
• Hispanic Heritage Month – Personality Descriptions & Adjectives
• La Escuela y las clases Spanish Lesson Plans
• La Comida Spanish Lesson Plans
• Teaching Likes & Dislikes with the Verb Gustar Spanish Lesson Plans

​Spanish Lesson Plans & Activities

• Authentic School Schedules
• Basic Greetings & Farewells
• Body Parts Worksheets
• Car Gar Zar Verbs
• Classroom Readers & Novels
• Classes & Subjects
• Daily Routine
• Days of the Week
• Demonstrative Adjectives
• Family Members Vocabulary
• First Day of School – Spanish I
• First Day of School – Spanish II
• Future Tense in Spanish Ir a Infinitive
• Imperfect Tense
• Indirect Object Pronouns
• Irregular Verbs
• Months of the Year
• November Short Story
• Parts of the Body
• Physical Traits & Adjectives
• Possessive Adjectives
• Present Tense Verbs
• Present Progressive
• Regular Present Tense Verbs
• Reflexive Verbs
• School Supplies & Classroom Objects
• Spanish Colors
• Spanish Culture
• Spanish-speaking Countries
• Spanish Numbers

There are also so many fun holidays and celebrations we can share about with students throughout the school year! Whether you’re using craft sheets, educational videos, or projects, there are tons of ways Spanish speakers celebrate cultural traditions. 

Check out this page for all of my blog posts on lessons and activities for your cultural unit!

Free Resources

When you’re trying to lesson plan, you can spend so much time trying to find or create activities. Let me save you some effort. First thing, just head over here and grab any of the free resources to help you with lesson planning.

Here are some of my personal favorites:

• Brain Break Google Slides
• Meme Game
• Movie Talks
• Roll a Story Writing Activity
• Spanish Holidays Research Project

This page has all of my free resources for Spanish class!

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Advice for First Year Teachers

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