Welcome to March everyone. It’s the time of year where we are all anxious for spring, and students are getting antsy. Hopefully I’m not alone in this, but around this time of year some of our classroom expectations need a bit of a reset. Sometimes it’s just MY energy and that I just don’t have… Read More Plan B for Story Telling
Join the Spanish Teacher Success Academy for limited time FREE access to presentations and resources from 24+ Spanish teachers, including Srta Spanish! This March 10th, my friend Jared Romey is hosting an online event packed full of incredible strategies to help you to get your students motivated, engaged and absolutely loving their Spanish classes and learning… Read More Spanish Teacher Success Academy – Free Online Professional Development for Spanish Teachers
Finding new ways to include reading in my classroom has been the biggest part of my lesson plans this year. Whether it’s getting them to interact with the reading in some way via True and False Statements or the Most Important Sentence activity, or just getting them to re-read the story, having a variety of… Read More Reading Activity: Speed Date Translate
In the journey of switching over to more comprehensible input based activities and resources, I’ve discovered one really key thing: 95% of my activities are geared towards reading or re-reading. (no, that’s not a scientifically measured number, but I’m pretty sure it’s 100% true). We know that reading is important. Getting students to read meaningful… Read More Two Ways to Read Out Loud
I’ve shared about Running Dication before, and as much as I love running dictation, until last week I had never tried the traditional format for dictation. I first read about dictation on Keith Toda’s blog post here. If you’ve never visited his blog before, you’re totally missing out! He has lots of great ideas shared… Read More Classic Dictation
Mi Lápiz is one of my absolute favorite games in my classroom. Why? Because it is SO easy. You can take any worksheet that you wanted your kids to do, hand them a die, and suddenly it’s a GAME and engagement goes through the roof. I have a post on set up and variations of… Read More 5 Ways to Play Mi Lápiz