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A Dollar Goes A Long Way

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Investigate life along the Old Spanish Trail! They visit websites and identify the history and environment. They create journals, dramatic enactments, and maps to discover the role individuals played in society. They also explore the...
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Bodas de Sangre Essay

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Your advanced Spanish readers will gain historical perspective by relating how the events leading up to the Treaty of Paris (1898) are reflected in the symbolism and imagery found in Bodas de Sangre. You will need to locate a copy of the...
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I Know My Colors

For Students 1st - 5th
How well does your beginning Spanish class know their colors? Give them this quick coloring worksheet to find out. Each shape is paired with a color (in Spanish), and youngsters must color the shape with its corresponding color. A fun...
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Trip to an Art Gallery

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Have your Spanish speakers give museum tours with this interactive plan. To simplify this entertaining idea, bring in art pieces and create a gallery in your very own classroom. Provide the names of different works of art and have your...
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IR + a + the Infinitive Form of the Verb

For Students 6th - 9th
Ir, the Spanish verb meaning to go, is the focus in this activity. First middle and high schoolers study the ir+a+infinitive construction, and then they read examples. End with a practice opportunity at the bottom of the page. Language...
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Pastimes: Music and Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Play the lively music of flamenco and tango for your emerging Spanish speakers, and introduce them to popular dances from Spanish-speaking countries around the world. Discuss various types of music and dance, showing either pictures or...
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Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Teach new animal vocabulary to your young Spanish speakers. Read Sali de paseo and have youngsters hold up the different animal cutouts when they hear the animal's Spanish translation being used. This will provide an easy assessment to...
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Cuidemos nuestro ambiente

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After discussing the Spanish word ambiente, read the article "Cuidemos nuestro ambiente"  with your intermediate or advanced Spanish class. Read the first paragraph together, marking the text and engaging your readers. Then, have the...
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What's for Dinner?

For Students 6th - 8th
Simply draw a line from the Spanish word to its English meaning. There are 11 vocabulary words presented including leche, encurtidos, caramelo, and manzana. A quick assessment!
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Parts of the Face

For Students 4th - 7th
Manipulate the components of a face, and learn the Spanish words for eye, nose, mouth, ear, hair, teeth, tongue, and eyebrow! After your beginning Spanish pupils design a face, have them pair up and practice naming the parts of the face.
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Making Objects Human

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Explore poetry, personification, and multiple languages with a poetry reading and writing activity. After the teacher reads the poem to the class, a discussion about personification follows. The class then writes a collaborative poem...
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Man of La Mancha: Study Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's the end of the sixteenth century in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition when a group of prisoners decides to dramatize the story of Don Quixote. A study guide provides a summary and other important information about the play Man...
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Descriptions with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore famous artists of the Spanish-speaking world to practice describing things. The kids will identify the color each picture uses, whether figures are large or small, what the people look like, etc. Then, read The Very Hungry...
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Las Tejanas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize that the Tejanas were Texas women of Spanish-Mexican origin who contributed to the history of Texas. Students read and research the Tejanas women, complete an essay about a day in the life of a Tejanas woman ,and...
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Writing Exercises: English Settlements in North America

For Students 9th - 11th
A great writing exercise should have it all. This one requires learners to think critically about cause and effect, compare and contrast, and summarizing. They compose responses to five short answer questions regarding Spanish and...
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Food Questions

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you like meat? What about seafood? Answer the questions provided with your best Spanish. This activity could make a quick bell-ringer activity or even an exit card. 
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¿Cuando?

For Students 7th - 9th
When do you get up? When do you eat lunch? Use the series of sentences included to practice using vocabulary such as de la tarde or de la noche. For each phrase provided, beginning Spanish pupils write a complete sentence describing when...
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Months, Seasons, and Dates

For Students 6th - 9th
Beginning Spanish speakers will find this reference guide very helpful! Months and seasons are the central focus here. Pair this information with a practice activity. 
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Essential Questions

For Students 6th - 8th
How are you? First, learners have to translate the seven questions (currently in English) into Spanish, and then they have to answer them! Consider pairing learners up to practice asking and answering questions. 
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Dialogue Practice

For Students 6th - 9th
Hola! Distribute this short dialogue to your beginning Spanish speakers. They have to read the entire dialogue before inputting the missing words. Then, in the second section, they read a short dialogue between two characters before...
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Ir + a + infinitive soup

For Students 8th - 10th
Yum, alphabet soup! Learners are presented with a bowl of alphabet soup containing some Spanish words. Combine these words with the ir+a+infinitive structure to complete the 12 sentences provided. A fun twist on basic conjugation! 
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Present Irregular

For Students 6th - 9th
It's tough to remember irregular verb conjugations! Provide this extra practice for your beginning classes. The 32 sentences are in Spanish, and they must find the correct English translation. Questions are provided in the...
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Hispanic World - Spain

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Take your class on an electronic field trip to Spain! Visit Cordoba or Barcelona, and run with the bulls (virtually) in Pamplona. Groups search the Internet to find sites that permit them to explore the original Spanish-speaking country....
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Banco de palabras de dibujo

For Students 8th - 12th
While reading either a non-fiction or fictional text, have your class record new and unknown words. This graphic organizer has space for six words and their definitions, so challenge your kids to find at least six unknown words. 

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