tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33865806052869691612024-03-12T20:17:17.150-04:00Miss SeñoritaMiss Senoritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802349399847696071noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-84840931060254036832024-03-05T14:26:00.001-05:002024-03-05T14:26:31.730-05:00End Your Spanish Clothing Unit with a Fun Skit: Fashion Police<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBCB83YUwyNckq5bM1WubhXH3wdSMXqHmNDg9cpJKwiyvAelkHkqXwMTlWgg4L5NMUsJlI5BcP6erUT8CLu0t3mvjLmiWResZIjREB4nf0D0w-N6kLCTzSoV_iW3gHxQeD76lTN3gW2ALZYx9tyb11kOtaKa5a5CNOf-UOUxkOTUa21NmVvuEZlNMkps/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBCB83YUwyNckq5bM1WubhXH3wdSMXqHmNDg9cpJKwiyvAelkHkqXwMTlWgg4L5NMUsJlI5BcP6erUT8CLu0t3mvjLmiWResZIjREB4nf0D0w-N6kLCTzSoV_iW3gHxQeD76lTN3gW2ALZYx9tyb11kOtaKa5a5CNOf-UOUxkOTUa21NmVvuEZlNMkps/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Want a fun and engaging idea to wrap up your Clothing Unit?</p><p>Do a Fashion Police Skit with your students!</p><p><b>This skit works best with Spanish 1 or 2 students</b>, but you could absolutely level up the requirements for upper-level students with more language skills.</p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Here's how I have this project set up</span>:</b></h3><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Students work in <b>groups of 3</b> <i>(or 4 if the number of students isn't divisible by 3)</i></li><li>Over 2 days they create a skit, turn their script in for credit, and they <b>present on Day 3</b></li></ul><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">What I have them include in their skits:</span></h3><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Student A is <b>wearing something atrocious.</b> <i>I encourage everyone to be creative with what this might be.</i></li><li>Students B and C approach Student A, announce that they are "policía de moda", and tell Student A <b>what is wrong with their outfit</b></li><ul><li>maybe it doesn't fit right</li><li>or the colors don't match</li><li>or there are too many patterns</li><li>or it's out of fashion... etc</li></ul><li>Student A defends their choices but <b>asks what they should wear</b></li><li>Students B and C <b>make suggestions</b> for what would be better. </li></ul></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How I grade the skit:</span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Students are graded on <b>pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar</b></li><ul><li>Pronunciation - can I understand what you're saying?</li><li>Fluency - does it sound like you know what you're saying or practiced?</li><li>Vocabulary - are you including a variety of words we recently learned?</li><li>Grammar - is it correct?</li></ul><li><b>I give them a grade during other groups' presentations</b> for being quiet and respectful</li><ul><li>These are free points for most students</li></ul></ul><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Pro tips:</span></h3><div><b>1) You're going to have to sell this to students. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>No one will initially be like <i>"oh my gosh, yes! I can't wait to wear something ugly in front of all my friends!". </i></div><div><br /></div><div>Tell them how fun it will be. <b>Encourage them to be creative</b> and once you get them to tap into being goofy, they'll love it.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>2) You might want to <b>let admin know about this in advance</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did this skit in schools with uniforms, so I got special permission for students to change out of uniform at the beginning of class and then change back at the end. </div><div><br /></div><div>I had to then allow enough time for changing clothes, which is tight in a 50-minute class period. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Even if your school doesn't have uniforms, admin might want to know why 10 kids from your class are all changing their clothes 3 minutes after the late bell rang. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Want this skit done for you?</span></h3><p><b>You can grab the Spanish Fashion Police Clothing Skit <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Fashion-Police-Clothing-Skit-la-ropa-interactive-assessment-1411357" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">here</span></a> </b>in my TpT store. It includes: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>rubric for students</li><li>grading rubric for the teacher</li><li>teacher's guide</li><li>alternate written comic strip project for any students who are mortified by the idea of a skit in front of their peers</li></ul><div><br /></div><p></p><p>What project or skit do you do to wrap up the Clothing Unit? Share in the comments!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinomLHfZKySrFuJnP3MfBz6eEI_RkUN3nNI8d7Cl09dd0WmPjgOJU5u2oqN4PNtCX9Bpi0VqjKu-Y4m8IY61dVNDL4IlUFVcXRukKkNwDPd11Uri9Wu70k2h6kcH3GQu8NdiuMytMKF3ooUkmSXM-X7u2Tvsg2qjK64GpZY_hTxzk-SUCYFz49bEArSjs/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinomLHfZKySrFuJnP3MfBz6eEI_RkUN3nNI8d7Cl09dd0WmPjgOJU5u2oqN4PNtCX9Bpi0VqjKu-Y4m8IY61dVNDL4IlUFVcXRukKkNwDPd11Uri9Wu70k2h6kcH3GQu8NdiuMytMKF3ooUkmSXM-X7u2Tvsg2qjK64GpZY_hTxzk-SUCYFz49bEArSjs/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script><p></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script><p></p><p></p><p></p>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-14360552878046270572024-02-17T10:59:00.001-05:002024-03-04T17:40:30.340-05:007 Engaging Writing Activities for Any Topic in Spanish Class<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMuAUQL15I1lUhGo5YdaNFW4-q8wrjX7uO41WHDx79pulVfd9vw2ANQLC-gc1fM6qhKVQ1sVCypHi0xLUp_oUXIfDB6q2d-sXU_hlsVT9pSnw0A-7tUN0_V_vpzX2Z5jpnhfN2F6WN0xyY6PJIE7ZaytFZsfGOtLnvbWAWxN00nuyq4fXOjl8DamhBk4/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMuAUQL15I1lUhGo5YdaNFW4-q8wrjX7uO41WHDx79pulVfd9vw2ANQLC-gc1fM6qhKVQ1sVCypHi0xLUp_oUXIfDB6q2d-sXU_hlsVT9pSnw0A-7tUN0_V_vpzX2Z5jpnhfN2F6WN0xyY6PJIE7ZaytFZsfGOtLnvbWAWxN00nuyq4fXOjl8DamhBk4/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>You want to keep things fresh and new and engaging in your Spanish class, right?</p><p>Here are <b>7 ideas for engaging writing activities</b> that you can use for a<b>ny level of Spanish and just about any topic!</b></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Answer Questions</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;">Target specific vocab from that day's lesson with this activity.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">How to set it up</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;">Write questions with picture prompts from that day's targeted vocab.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJojXP71XuSx6wual-pfufjTpCpkllBr_HUljrZfpDOrvWv8DeaiJyl206rdAEchSf5h0-GUoIVRv0VuJBbIpMNf6PokvRYNJuxXOy6AeJqnZw9DavzdiB53MoAegg5g2Nz9rXAYAYSuM9NeVEby7HmUZzaQ8FsZT4EOAxw8XGePlndexlmq49HERF8xM/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJojXP71XuSx6wual-pfufjTpCpkllBr_HUljrZfpDOrvWv8DeaiJyl206rdAEchSf5h0-GUoIVRv0VuJBbIpMNf6PokvRYNJuxXOy6AeJqnZw9DavzdiB53MoAegg5g2Nz9rXAYAYSuM9NeVEby7HmUZzaQ8FsZT4EOAxw8XGePlndexlmq49HERF8xM/w640-h480/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;">Answer the following questions, stating what you use for each activity. Follow the model.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;">reflexive verbs with hygiene vocabulary</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;">Students write what hygiene vocabulary word they use to do various daily routine activities with reflexive verbs vocab that they already know.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Fill in the Blanks</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;">This activity is ideal for verb forms or noun/adjective agreement. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3lX2VQF1FNij2aFMyPTthW_m9RJW9sWeK7yjDrrmUx_5Lo3d-Tvju6sFqF804i3PhIt4FBEzElVt-75rXLHMPvCjS64GqikWwwh42A8foLJv7riUUZBtOED_8HX0r_wGVYiOIZ3LFoSu_BqQGxVSMqZpF0LVcD1yCQYaVCF_ofFbOhXf5F7GJBdC4P0k/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3lX2VQF1FNij2aFMyPTthW_m9RJW9sWeK7yjDrrmUx_5Lo3d-Tvju6sFqF804i3PhIt4FBEzElVt-75rXLHMPvCjS64GqikWwwh42A8foLJv7riUUZBtOED_8HX0r_wGVYiOIZ3LFoSu_BqQGxVSMqZpF0LVcD1yCQYaVCF_ofFbOhXf5F7GJBdC4P0k/w640-h480/Slide2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of <i>gusta</i> or <i>gustan</i>. Follow the model.</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>gustar with singular and plural nouns</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students fill in the blanks with <i>gusta</i> or <i>gustan</i> based on the noun - singular or plural.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Write a Paragraph</span></h2><div>Let students get creative with their vocab and/or grammar knowledge and actually apply what they know to their real lives. </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">How to set it up</span></h4><div>Give students a scenario and include a bulleted list of all info you want students to include.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOruKj2kl2wT2Yk8MFxGu03MA7UnnEQ8Qpd-eUcjikmUkWMRdvpoRxIuR2kkLSMcuGp-Ag9CPL4iE-Fr25YvLdHGWy5swurwBxn76BuqzneU_ZwLF2YMDbCMiDlPs3g3ZgQVLVFcSe12vzc1nKYnHo6W3n4GFlKNeFLRxaZg94T_IkWTscdTbyIcbrWM/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOruKj2kl2wT2Yk8MFxGu03MA7UnnEQ8Qpd-eUcjikmUkWMRdvpoRxIuR2kkLSMcuGp-Ag9CPL4iE-Fr25YvLdHGWy5swurwBxn76BuqzneU_ZwLF2YMDbCMiDlPs3g3ZgQVLVFcSe12vzc1nKYnHo6W3n4GFlKNeFLRxaZg94T_IkWTscdTbyIcbrWM/w640-h480/Slide3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>You have a new pen pal in Chile and he wants to know more about your family. Write a message to him in which you include the following information about three family members:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>where you live</li><li>their names and relationships to you</li><li>what chores each one does (or has to do) at home</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>chores vocab (students already know family vocab)</p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students write a paragraph using new chores vocab and include old family vocab to state what chores they and their family members do.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Describe a Picture</span></h2><div>Students use new vocab to describe what they see in pictures. They can get creative!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4kxaezBMPteLW4JphGEmwECZPWUg46ov6a9f_hyphenhyphen_4QchSrBdtaiCTayOD4dbACfkxsuL9Agy6qGnKrKUv1nQ9tZ8EvAuQhqFYvf9nz9rBJNPfjzHXsRUMFEWUFM6JTbgt7hozaVYnCAAE9tjgcLpy2xBh1qk4vPMEkznOd6-3MxXTP1WH37F4_xxGpk/s869/Slide4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4kxaezBMPteLW4JphGEmwECZPWUg46ov6a9f_hyphenhyphen_4QchSrBdtaiCTayOD4dbACfkxsuL9Agy6qGnKrKUv1nQ9tZ8EvAuQhqFYvf9nz9rBJNPfjzHXsRUMFEWUFM6JTbgt7hozaVYnCAAE9tjgcLpy2xBh1qk4vPMEkznOd6-3MxXTP1WH37F4_xxGpk/w640-h480/Slide4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>Describe what hurts, is broken, or is burned in each picture below. Be creative! Follow the model.</p><p></p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>injuries and sicknesses vocab</p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students write what is hurt, broken, or burned based on pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Correct Errors</span></h2><div>Students have to correct errors in sentences. This is great with irregular verb forms, or common mistakes. Make it tricky by including some sentences with no errors, or multiple errors in the same sentence.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5PRa1e1pQgh3vi95MdkkKlUO8zBWs4AMmvBu9ykHWCTmSFIARDYP2VZmjHYupk34yh716y8m0GDeGLvj-nKxe5PecxjinhihpcGfiI21ABnDvOqX5j7sp8D9d4-Va0UHI2H-bXUzG-XoWtCHLgBqZtvELnJGcv3xXxZTpr_pE0hYTQv3L9vTQJjBFj4/s869/Slide5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5PRa1e1pQgh3vi95MdkkKlUO8zBWs4AMmvBu9ykHWCTmSFIARDYP2VZmjHYupk34yh716y8m0GDeGLvj-nKxe5PecxjinhihpcGfiI21ABnDvOqX5j7sp8D9d4-Va0UHI2H-bXUzG-XoWtCHLgBqZtvELnJGcv3xXxZTpr_pE0hYTQv3L9vTQJjBFj4/w640-h480/Slide5.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>Your friend isn't as good at Spanish as you. Read each of the following sentences and fix the incorrect future tense verbs. Follow the model.</p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>future tense verb forms</p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students have to correct the forms of regular and irregular future tense verb forms.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Translate to Spanish</span></h2><div>Students translate sentences to Spanish. This is great when meaning is structured completely differently in Spanish (hace que, subjunctive, etc) or when students just need extra practice with specific vocab or grammar.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAKyo8PhzGjtVrsesU8F51CEwnL8Y9dhxSPUUYtDVWwvUpYKp0oPgf63Ouj3UAWz3l9OkK82dXXx_pSGWAZ3BJDlVy351I9gY-XTOZfAcQM2txO66DC6uFgyOOgada-VjUEnBCaIDWio2EWj-BjU74-SOvB7sK6SLUh6twNchdF2LTWIg89BkxxIfrDo/s869/Slide6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAKyo8PhzGjtVrsesU8F51CEwnL8Y9dhxSPUUYtDVWwvUpYKp0oPgf63Ouj3UAWz3l9OkK82dXXx_pSGWAZ3BJDlVy351I9gY-XTOZfAcQM2txO66DC6uFgyOOgada-VjUEnBCaIDWio2EWj-BjU74-SOvB7sK6SLUh6twNchdF2LTWIg89BkxxIfrDo/w640-h480/Slide6.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>Translate the following sentences to Spanish. Start your sentences with the "hace + time + que" phrase. Follow the model.</p><p></p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>hace que</p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students translate sentences with "hace que" to Spanish.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Categorize</span></h2><div>Have students conjugate verbs based on how they conjugate, or categorize vocab based on any categories that make sense. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKPxmuGXoafCDfUM77r4HYZ9MKxhYCO8KGsOIgzX7ip3S9g-H6_JBbaWVLmTTN7GlP_owwtWcPF6TqAbBkKGefMMoU6_nZTg4XhRLC-FMW7-k-2kUIdl2R9lNrczREw20pUrHSb2mY4XcU7E9pvOa_lx1PXXDteqC7C1bz45fxQfSliDT4ZWzn_l1LY8/s869/Slide7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKPxmuGXoafCDfUM77r4HYZ9MKxhYCO8KGsOIgzX7ip3S9g-H6_JBbaWVLmTTN7GlP_owwtWcPF6TqAbBkKGefMMoU6_nZTg4XhRLC-FMW7-k-2kUIdl2R9lNrczREw20pUrHSb2mY4XcU7E9pvOa_lx1PXXDteqC7C1bz45fxQfSliDT4ZWzn_l1LY8/w640-h480/Slide7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example directions</span></h4><p>You had all your verb categorized by -y- verbs, stem-changing, and regular er/ir, but they all spilled on the floor and now they're disorganized! Categorize each of the verbs below in their appropriate category.</p><p></p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example topic</span></h4><p>preterite er and ir verbs - regular, y, and stem-changing</p><p><br /></p><h4><span style="color: #147dd9;">Example activity</span></h4><p>Students categorize verbs based on how they conjugate in the preterite tense.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What writing activities do your students love? Share in the comments!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGvpREyWcilTKs4eERLU3yvjG6g4PFx_Za6iHcUrXc8di_RKo7m4Bqc_hRm-llYkNr6yti3k62uCwm2GT09QMzy8eFRK6TzFSjaUpzjIcx9vCt0yMCvmVw5J9Oq_WKEmjqb64MYj5FUk9pAq5za4MsxrU0pcw4V_nTES_0x70zRyrDKZiRHIUcIfk9dc/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGvpREyWcilTKs4eERLU3yvjG6g4PFx_Za6iHcUrXc8di_RKo7m4Bqc_hRm-llYkNr6yti3k62uCwm2GT09QMzy8eFRK6TzFSjaUpzjIcx9vCt0yMCvmVw5J9Oq_WKEmjqb64MYj5FUk9pAq5za4MsxrU0pcw4V_nTES_0x70zRyrDKZiRHIUcIfk9dc/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script><p></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script><p></p><p></p>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-21281447979703363132024-01-17T17:21:00.003-05:002024-01-30T10:52:28.215-05:00Insanely Easy Speaking Activities for Spanish Class: Whole-Class Speaking Activity<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yNCdrShQ1uh5e7lrDDQJJre8OZ9nhyoJKKKnGBZJkhHld-sZ549Gva5_yX_GGkb37mG2I0phUSf-qaiYkG5uwUMF9OWsxWlpoe74XhLz6tJGymD5cG0EgBwLDybsu-ssOixccFalK_wo4tU-nQbJf2dgmP5KcJr3biR1PmtwaL9Ic69NF1DQ3kzFPPw/s869/Slide1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yNCdrShQ1uh5e7lrDDQJJre8OZ9nhyoJKKKnGBZJkhHld-sZ549Gva5_yX_GGkb37mG2I0phUSf-qaiYkG5uwUMF9OWsxWlpoe74XhLz6tJGymD5cG0EgBwLDybsu-ssOixccFalK_wo4tU-nQbJf2dgmP5KcJr3biR1PmtwaL9Ic69NF1DQ3kzFPPw/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Need an idea to get students speaking Spanish and practicing new vocab?</p><p>Try this bingo-style whole-class speaking activity!</p><a name='more'></a><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How this activity works:</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;">1. Students get up out of their seats and <b>ask a partner of their choice a questio</b>n <i>(pre-determined by the teacher) </i>and <b>answer with a phrase</b>, also pre-determined by the teacher. </p><p style="text-align: left;">2. They <b>write down the name of the person</b> that gives them an answer. </p><p style="text-align: left;">3. There are 12 different answer options and they have to <b>find one person with each answer. </b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">This activity is ideal with <u>one</u> question and 9-12 different vocabulary words or phrases that answer that question.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The example above has students ask each other <i>¿Qué te aburre? </i>and answer with 12 different pastime activities they learned that day. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How you make it:</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Note in advance: I make this activity in Microsoft Word. </i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">1. <b>Write the directions.</b> </span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Example directions you can tweak and steal:</p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Get up and walk around the room to find one person for each activity below. Ask a partner "¿Qué te aburre?" and answer with your activity in the box to the right. Write the name of someone you speak with who is bored by each activity in the boxes below. You only need one name per box and a name in every box. Return to your seat when you find all 12 activities.</i><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">2. Include a <b>box to the right of the directions for each student's pre-determined answer. </b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Add a text box to the right of the directions. Give the text box an outline. You will add clipart images here shortly for answer prompts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuVqlGXRahAMns-KIwt_aogFSIi4kpKwRqIoFHUTqBTADRb-0-qLwpD1Mc-OGfHt25WJ5aMCz5GRBcH9Zf3OV4SjW3ohO6kg9pVXYZNvZ6iBzL2LHd34tU0ESFVT1iQ-N0Jvi9FSqn7-mlS6WAaunwAdIGabwFhQ-njglAj3KAPLSecBQkcM-oK4gw4o/s869/Slide1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="869" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuVqlGXRahAMns-KIwt_aogFSIi4kpKwRqIoFHUTqBTADRb-0-qLwpD1Mc-OGfHt25WJ5aMCz5GRBcH9Zf3OV4SjW3ohO6kg9pVXYZNvZ6iBzL2LHd34tU0ESFVT1iQ-N0Jvi9FSqn7-mlS6WAaunwAdIGabwFhQ-njglAj3KAPLSecBQkcM-oK4gw4o/w400-h275/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">3. Make a table outline for the <b>variety of answers. </b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Insert a table and make it 4x3 <i>(if you have 12 answer prompts)</i>. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Hit enter a few times for each row to give yourself space for the clipart.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Add a line at the bottom of every box for students to write the name of the person they speak to.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnYY8MMdiJbv8VOlJNPzObpASzXZa1aCF0uegEbyApoWN0ZDXvCbPYPj_-T3A91wFFoi3oZ6nvzfRxDn2zD0cqOwXq-oFgcwr8uJglLFy_O1eluMfRIBi0hLDSyvoDbRUaWOmi2xpLLnMgWfiA8wA8Ox8NFsXHcIYZz5uzV4QqHYhagN-hPzivhcS4B0/s869/Slide2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="869" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnYY8MMdiJbv8VOlJNPzObpASzXZa1aCF0uegEbyApoWN0ZDXvCbPYPj_-T3A91wFFoi3oZ6nvzfRxDn2zD0cqOwXq-oFgcwr8uJglLFy_O1eluMfRIBi0hLDSyvoDbRUaWOmi2xpLLnMgWfiA8wA8Ox8NFsXHcIYZz5uzV4QqHYhagN-hPzivhcS4B0/w400-h275/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">4. <b>Add in your 12 answer options </b>to the table<b>.</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Copy and paste the clipart answer prompts into the table - one image in each of the 12 boxes. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1xJcGYmHMzwRPEj5X3C6Jqkrh0C6VZL5xRaRJLUC4L2CC__in7ZDZqC8sypu8alxdrj8Rjrc1M_9qYG2XZKzjdruGsqLdTnD_6z_BkDhbHiOZY-yNKIBOYpkVnWeGmto3EHZkcvLT2djHm9C8_9OH5kpNaBrvB8kVpqTPZC7ax6PxCn2gzxt-IXbCh4/s869/Slide3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="869" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1xJcGYmHMzwRPEj5X3C6Jqkrh0C6VZL5xRaRJLUC4L2CC__in7ZDZqC8sypu8alxdrj8Rjrc1M_9qYG2XZKzjdruGsqLdTnD_6z_BkDhbHiOZY-yNKIBOYpkVnWeGmto3EHZkcvLT2djHm9C8_9OH5kpNaBrvB8kVpqTPZC7ax6PxCn2gzxt-IXbCh4/w400-h275/Slide3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">5. <b>Copy and paste the activity </b>11 times. </span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Now you have 12 versions of the activity. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholYF0FR0RzjlVgbmcW74-8jH6LBVbDW2y7rPX26Ebryqphr0NG9JLZUjWjiRqnYL90tCNnfkdrcQXaBOhhOTmFGn7ZZNM6aU0KUof6gKtBdhyiuuDh_36yS9VH2v5vKbiDmkYdiXzJRvxwPA57sYO5DdI8JOjjgf0mG4GszyzEE8W1TO1NR8Hg_Div0A/s869/Slide4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="869" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholYF0FR0RzjlVgbmcW74-8jH6LBVbDW2y7rPX26Ebryqphr0NG9JLZUjWjiRqnYL90tCNnfkdrcQXaBOhhOTmFGn7ZZNM6aU0KUof6gKtBdhyiuuDh_36yS9VH2v5vKbiDmkYdiXzJRvxwPA57sYO5DdI8JOjjgf0mG4GszyzEE8W1TO1NR8Hg_Div0A/w400-h275/Slide4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><i>You just need to copy and paste answer prompts into the text box at the top to the right of the directions...</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">6. Add in the <b>answer prompts on every version.</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Copy and paste the clipart answer prompts from the table into the text box for each student's answer prompt - one on each version. Every answer prompt should be included. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3vMOYBKbUg9izwAUNSO2X4ZO2EWE3zDecvqjpJ23xXgL9zv6HCO9JHE4gyzcolR45olWMLTk2Cepcc2GDeS4roooRSj8TZzNgXVKQdsSaByf2udp3PTG_dVORFY6xWAZ7lAusnY9dlZ7QDi0qONa-ZfLqfYDY__UGrvSLqTVNvcAoiPNtxgnHK7QAgU/s869/Slide5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="869" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3vMOYBKbUg9izwAUNSO2X4ZO2EWE3zDecvqjpJ23xXgL9zv6HCO9JHE4gyzcolR45olWMLTk2Cepcc2GDeS4roooRSj8TZzNgXVKQdsSaByf2udp3PTG_dVORFY6xWAZ7lAusnY9dlZ7QDi0qONa-ZfLqfYDY__UGrvSLqTVNvcAoiPNtxgnHK7QAgU/s320/Slide5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Optional extension writing activity. </span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">This speaking activity lends itself really easily to a follow-up writing activity. Students now have 12 different activities with names for who does each of them. Have them write the sentences out!</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #147dd9;">Looking for more speaking activities? </span></b></h3><p style="text-align: left;">You can also see how I do <b><a href="https://misssenoritatpt.blogspot.com/2019/10/insanely-easy-speaking-activities-for.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">A/B info-gap partner speaking activities</span></a></b> and how I use the whole-class speaking activity <b><a href="https://misssenoritatpt.blogspot.com/2015/09/ask-switch-speaking-activity.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Ask & Switch</span></a></b>. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLTOzazD6gSbP5DUg1D_fupKMd91djHlU67b7G4v2QgYo6gBZ1Jc7YcEOEHu5FMymk4g48Ib6QpgLsiYOkg8peCo4wvFj7nJATzQwuJYhWlGASK77PImeik5XtzqTuGWdyN_ZrqoGOwo3WdhimxqgcsIeeH9nxx5iv7XAKj38CpfDRuOn3KX2YK4Bhyphenhypheno/s1500/Signature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLTOzazD6gSbP5DUg1D_fupKMd91djHlU67b7G4v2QgYo6gBZ1Jc7YcEOEHu5FMymk4g48Ib6QpgLsiYOkg8peCo4wvFj7nJATzQwuJYhWlGASK77PImeik5XtzqTuGWdyN_ZrqoGOwo3WdhimxqgcsIeeH9nxx5iv7XAKj38CpfDRuOn3KX2YK4Bhyphenhypheno/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script><p></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script><p></p>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-56678021931579038812023-11-17T19:30:00.006-05:002023-11-17T19:32:10.627-05:00 Complete your Spanish Commands Unit with a Fun Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnFlR0qFHZ8qcFjncIBTLjg-PWsWGIhIegGZYVE1RNhwJgkK4vWUevSm0fh1A0r6Oe9ExgxqOLmK1pCjUf-d143378YeNTfb-gf6lJ4irGRig1occWFtOyJ9mY2me-gQSN32sIgJ-sAx0aSTcdL6TDmstD0p_4cfme0DVTzuNu7loc86NZEGTs9Jr4mE/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnFlR0qFHZ8qcFjncIBTLjg-PWsWGIhIegGZYVE1RNhwJgkK4vWUevSm0fh1A0r6Oe9ExgxqOLmK1pCjUf-d143378YeNTfb-gf6lJ4irGRig1occWFtOyJ9mY2me-gQSN32sIgJ-sAx0aSTcdL6TDmstD0p_4cfme0DVTzuNu7loc86NZEGTs9Jr4mE/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Okay, so you've taught affirmative tú commands and negative tú commands to your Spanish students.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Now what??</i><br /><br />Let's give them a way to express themselves and use the language in a fun and engaging <i>(and very targeted </i>🙃<i>)</i> way!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>Let's have them do a project.</b> 😆</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 1: Choose a format.</span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;">What format do you want your students to use for the project? </div><div style="text-align: left;">💻Powerpoint? </div><div style="text-align: left;">🖥️Google Slides? </div><div style="text-align: left;">📝Paper? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Pick whatever format makes the most sense for your students. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 2: Decide your requirements. </span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Did your students learn both affirmative and negative tú commands?</b> If so, have them include both.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>How many sentences </b>do you want them to write? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What<b> types of verbs</b> do you want them to include? I require students to use a certain number of regular, stem-changing, and irregular verbs. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Do you want students to <b>include an image?</b> Let them know.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Are you grading them on their <b>grammar or a variety of vocabulary?</b> Let them know.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3pvfaE59ZOQ1Y_jGtWcTForyRZB2CQwr3X8LhL96ELnrJDV8BY2Ac-D3UGd2V4hkxjIRkt4bZ8OoBnPkMJCWqei3EKPRrPIj-JbHc8wyt6q7E70kuZ-OqGVnH90aEPEtFkVH-ezAKUkeff5zfbS0lzu7JpmziGMU29fZALraqYy69_4oVT0yKIzLZIk/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="869" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3pvfaE59ZOQ1Y_jGtWcTForyRZB2CQwr3X8LhL96ELnrJDV8BY2Ac-D3UGd2V4hkxjIRkt4bZ8OoBnPkMJCWqei3EKPRrPIj-JbHc8wyt6q7E70kuZ-OqGVnH90aEPEtFkVH-ezAKUkeff5zfbS0lzu7JpmziGMU29fZALraqYy69_4oVT0yKIzLZIk/w400-h200/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 3: Assign point values.</span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;">All of your requirements need point values assigned to them. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I personally like my rubrics to add to a nice round number ending in zero, but if you want your project to be out of 47 points, you certainly can do that. <i>I would honestly just give everyone 3 points to make it out of 50, but that's just me. </i>😂</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 4: Set a due date.</span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;">Decide how long this project will take and <b>pick a due date</b>. Include this info prominently on your rubric.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You also might need to include <b>how you expect this project to be handed in.</b> Maybe it has to be uploaded to your Google Classroom. Or saved in the Shared Drive. Or physically handed to you. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FJ_3YoSATwzLaput20fHGOUDVjvwirdBTLB84Zs7Q6PvpL5WOBaKhx97X8jUEQo3_VMZMSUvy9Ngz6xzYqGlGCgexVWRujHtOSntcFH8zfa6gTXY4_fjCFb7Sq7parGfPRxJjEG0oCZSaRq8nqigZTU0JFxsqZJ8ttpzDueccM-1CrDSmmD-Tps8DZw/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="869" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FJ_3YoSATwzLaput20fHGOUDVjvwirdBTLB84Zs7Q6PvpL5WOBaKhx97X8jUEQo3_VMZMSUvy9Ngz6xzYqGlGCgexVWRujHtOSntcFH8zfa6gTXY4_fjCFb7Sq7parGfPRxJjEG0oCZSaRq8nqigZTU0JFxsqZJ8ttpzDueccM-1CrDSmmD-Tps8DZw/w400-h200/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 5: Help students be successful with this project.</span></h3><div style="text-align: left;">What else do students need to be successful? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you're requiring them to write 10 commands using a variety of different types of verbs, <b>where can they find those verbs? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I provide a list of verbs they already know, divided by category (regular, stem-changing, and irregular for a project like this). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Would it help your students if they could see an example? </b>Even just one slide rather than a full presentation will help them visualize the task. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Would your students be more successful if they had a template handed to them if you're using a digital format?</b> If so, make a template for them. Include a title slide where they are reminded to type their names <i>(or they'll literally forget) </i>and the total number of slides you expect. Set the design format to include text and images if that's what you expect - <b>whatever will make it easier for students to be successful in this project. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Figure out <b>where you'll put the template for students to easily access it.</b> Do you have a class website? Do you have a shared folder? Save it somewhere students can all easily open it and get started. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Want it done for you?</span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Affirmative-and-Negative-Tu-Commands-Project-7252234" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Grab it</span></a></b> in my TpT store! It includes both paper and digital versions. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Affirmative-and-Negative-Tu-Commands-Project-7252234" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tcKGvqemT1v8ZiHMzZNw2vit1dkRjMLHqLY18eR_tm0tPimjSZ1M3zTbW6ScBQjmG_qrU6O0a2fxcAD4oDJcR8UsX9DWVDfyYUqufo1oNzWdKZu3z6vztob2YdFmfhUYwXFKxh2b-jUlQo4T055m9Ksvan62hvvpd-pK_9jT1AYRfeBbQzQeJFG6wnM/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What do you have your students do to wrap up a Commands Unit? Share in the comments below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq67huVFNwFQEzCotH3jVByiVYwNLpoTIM9K_9eDrns64z3OeINSVU9d1gKEpl50RodCtfOLDEN8LnPDZp3XB99W0N96_qK1qmyAbB5IaGAOeVpdWYX26N0LaZIpeu5IYxUywHMyTJ_h57WdY5D0klEI4RnjR-7ZS83_sFPwkX9gCsEleiT_HOepE9vYc/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq67huVFNwFQEzCotH3jVByiVYwNLpoTIM9K_9eDrns64z3OeINSVU9d1gKEpl50RodCtfOLDEN8LnPDZp3XB99W0N96_qK1qmyAbB5IaGAOeVpdWYX26N0LaZIpeu5IYxUywHMyTJ_h57WdY5D0klEI4RnjR-7ZS83_sFPwkX9gCsEleiT_HOepE9vYc/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script><p></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script><p></p>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-61693224390702926782023-10-10T16:22:00.009-04:002023-10-10T16:23:40.386-04:00How I Plan a Giant Grammar Topic and Break it Down to Manageable Lessons<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbE4tTMAAIkm_V1KNpBjXlMiSh77f3raXNqmcA9_2E58I32AOPDui9TQD8PNv_F5HbAeqOtm2KBtlaD_s7fz0a0FfjJP2UjjiHzmUaliDWnnbFsQaxciHHGqtFIhtgpJ0tSpnJE4garY-1TtQLa7ocqKxZRSMaYyKBeTAQ_DSzSuTt_TaRWLGDvXeuq2w/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbE4tTMAAIkm_V1KNpBjXlMiSh77f3raXNqmcA9_2E58I32AOPDui9TQD8PNv_F5HbAeqOtm2KBtlaD_s7fz0a0FfjJP2UjjiHzmUaliDWnnbFsQaxciHHGqtFIhtgpJ0tSpnJE4garY-1TtQLa7ocqKxZRSMaYyKBeTAQ_DSzSuTt_TaRWLGDvXeuq2w/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><p>If you've ever been tasked with teaching "reflexive verbs" or "the preterite" or "travel vocabulary" - you already know this isn't as easily done as it is said.</p><p>"The Preterite Tense" for example is a beast of a tense with lots of exceptions<i> (looking at you - verbs that add Y in some forms but not all forms)</i>.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><b>Here's how I take any large topic and break it down to manageable </b><i>(let's say bitesize?) </i><b>lessons, so students can actually master the topic.</b></p><p><i>I'm going to use the preterite tense as an example, but any large topic will work. Let's also assume that you already have vocab picked out to go along with your preterite tense lessons and you'll be teaching students in context to talk about what they did last summer or on vacation or whatever.</i></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 1</span></b></h2><p><b>List allllll the things students need to learn for that giant grammar topic. </b></p><p>So for the preterite tense, this would be:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>regular AR verb endings</li><li>regular ER & IR verb endings</li><li>spelling-changing AR verbs (-car, -gar, -zar)</li><li>ER and IR verbs that add Y</li><li>IR stem-changing verbs</li><li>irregular verbs (which could also be broken down over several sub-topics)</li></ul><p></p><p>I literally write it out in a list.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK8B467tRiQkjcTF7N5dRlNrSdMOPrYdIy4HbQWTyB_C4aXOjSLvoOXDhFucpjcktIkjCE20KO8QkK2nT70HW4hCl-HG3ZPo4hqZisUzpa7KqbUtQlRO3sTCa93gSgwkNXyQ2Oa_6CtmTGpDXGRx-JngA8_pvOtrgJmk75eCOmj-s4ZFlwp_HJoRbSa7o/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK8B467tRiQkjcTF7N5dRlNrSdMOPrYdIy4HbQWTyB_C4aXOjSLvoOXDhFucpjcktIkjCE20KO8QkK2nT70HW4hCl-HG3ZPo4hqZisUzpa7KqbUtQlRO3sTCa93gSgwkNXyQ2Oa_6CtmTGpDXGRx-JngA8_pvOtrgJmk75eCOmj-s4ZFlwp_HJoRbSa7o/w400-h300/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 2</span></b></h2><p><b>Make each of those topics its own lesson and put them in an order that will make sense. </b></p><p>For example, the list above has regular ER and IR verbs before -car, -gar, -zar verbs. I'd teach the AR spelling-change verbs first, since I will have already taught regular AR verbs.</p><p>And "irregular verbs" can easily be stretched over several days, since there are so many of them and so many ways they're irregular. Break them down into groups that are similar.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnIVkrqbWStccE7E_dwB9xp_BH_cTJUg3hah6JVjVG-A3ZkhEMx1bikA4L52m1rPBU9sgqS5yrsLSzP9DG311hDjri5-uvkXlw0BCGBNPHE84CaqQJOPMi93GCMOZw-ZHqi7LLZaDVP0zUbeYCc7FXLmQo9BbxALUWT9bWckhIZuff8fTKdoexLCnwT8/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnIVkrqbWStccE7E_dwB9xp_BH_cTJUg3hah6JVjVG-A3ZkhEMx1bikA4L52m1rPBU9sgqS5yrsLSzP9DG311hDjri5-uvkXlw0BCGBNPHE84CaqQJOPMi93GCMOZw-ZHqi7LLZaDVP0zUbeYCc7FXLmQo9BbxALUWT9bWckhIZuff8fTKdoexLCnwT8/w400-h300/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 3</span></b></h2><p><b>Match the vocab you're teaching with each day's lesson. </b></p><p>Like for example, the AR verbs lesson should only include AR verbs vocab. </p><p>Also, <b>I aim for 10-14 new vocab words/day</b> so I'm not overwhelming students. </p><p>And make sure to <b>recycle previous days' vocab & grammar </b>as you plan the unit. Include AR verbs in your lesson on ER and IR verbs, so students don't forget those endings!</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 4</span></b></h2><p>When you're actually planning the activities you'll have students do and creating the powerpoint you'll use for teaching, <b>think about what students will struggle with. Address the questions you know they'll have.</b></p><p><i>How do you know which verbs add Y?</i></p><p><i>How do you know if a verb is stem-changing?</i></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 5</span></b></h2><p><b>Include review days. </b></p><p>I teach regular ER and IR verbs on Day 3, "Y" Verbs on Day 4, Stem-Changing Verbs on Day 5, and then on Day 6 I review all of them. </p><p><b>Old material combined in a new way.</b></p><p>We focus on how you know if a verb is regular or Y or stem-changing and even sprinkle in some AR verbs so they don't forget those<i> (slightly) </i>different endings. </p><p>Lessons like this are a good time to teach new vocab, since the grammar is a review. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjv63icP8bbKGUM4EkaycMoJS3n5BeRdOJcmTxy6fbsC1UE2hzbV48TUtZiH__CnceIvhtyvXfsbp7aQL8WNg8y08eeXU0sEWzzy_TyHBa45-xAoG74YxoydQH17MnsHCGldqyjTHSRjJ48uoGZOPPDvvNziMWRh8xFIOnGolccGaqRY0i8lPO1A3nhJQ/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="869" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjv63icP8bbKGUM4EkaycMoJS3n5BeRdOJcmTxy6fbsC1UE2hzbV48TUtZiH__CnceIvhtyvXfsbp7aQL8WNg8y08eeXU0sEWzzy_TyHBa45-xAoG74YxoydQH17MnsHCGldqyjTHSRjJ48uoGZOPPDvvNziMWRh8xFIOnGolccGaqRY0i8lPO1A3nhJQ/w400-h300/Slide3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>How do you plan a large, complicated unit and break it down to bitesize lessons? Share in the comments below!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82mcHpxNG0Akmnl3NV44VlClwLPvO0aglRnhyphenhyphen38JMHP7Rrh4IQtDuA82Szrrq7u76Tc52O8uJ-DzUB_25u6Ahy80hSQDaz0KlSWPBMYgrg3UYcm4zHVM6bjvPiBHXPpDJ_5aN7h2R2rdDE0GvaeD3SvwssiJ3S8oOo-kiSMzzQS6GPcG-FAiXljMpjXE/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82mcHpxNG0Akmnl3NV44VlClwLPvO0aglRnhyphenhyphen38JMHP7Rrh4IQtDuA82Szrrq7u76Tc52O8uJ-DzUB_25u6Ahy80hSQDaz0KlSWPBMYgrg3UYcm4zHVM6bjvPiBHXPpDJ_5aN7h2R2rdDE0GvaeD3SvwssiJ3S8oOo-kiSMzzQS6GPcG-FAiXljMpjXE/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script><p></p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script><p></p><p><br /></p>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-13001884559513596252023-09-12T15:04:00.170-04:002023-09-29T11:33:15.754-04:00Best Game Ever: How to make I Have Who Has<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPAp9EQUTlHK0cB4N7505ahmxnS2ioWO3UNtrhbKGIkp5ghqw_Kpt9zpBV-i7Xfk9TyGG7ir7kwAmQF9IvFfN9j6WVEU86FZkzGEQ2l5LUaPN-x2YQEpZTa9SZdWzuyg76s-iCM-boaz4IDujF-mm01HiktoDhSlQ9-R8YYJxQCLOVYhRPFmnYu-TLtw/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPAp9EQUTlHK0cB4N7505ahmxnS2ioWO3UNtrhbKGIkp5ghqw_Kpt9zpBV-i7Xfk9TyGG7ir7kwAmQF9IvFfN9j6WVEU86FZkzGEQ2l5LUaPN-x2YQEpZTa9SZdWzuyg76s-iCM-boaz4IDujF-mm01HiktoDhSlQ9-R8YYJxQCLOVYhRPFmnYu-TLtw/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> I Have Who Has <i>(or Yo Tengo ¿Quién Tiene?)</i> can be a fun whole-class game to practice vocabulary.<p></p><p>You just need at least as many vocabulary words as the number of students in your biggest class, powerpoint, and cardstock. Oh, and scissors or a paper cutter.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How this game is played</span></h2><p><b>Each student gets a card.</b></p><p>Each card has a top section that says <i>"Yo ___ tengo. (insert vocab word here)"</i> and a bottom section that says "<i>¿Quién tiene (insert clipart for a different vocab word here)".</i></p><p>Pick a student to start. <b>They will read the question on the bottom portion of their card. </b></p><p>For example, if you're reviewing school vocabulary, they might say <i>"¿Quién tiene la regla?"</i></p><p>The student whose sentence at the top has <i>la regla</i> in parenthesis will call out <i>"Yo la tengo."</i> And then they will ask the question at the bottom of their paper.</p><p>Eventually all students will get a turn and it'll lead back to the student who asked their question first.</p><p><b>You can also set this game up to exclude direct object pronouns and have students answer with <i>"Yo tengo la regla"</i> instead of <i>"Yo la tengo."</i></b></p><p>It's a listening activity, a speaking activity, vocabulary practice, and a game all in one. 😆</p><p><i><b>Pro tip: Time the class and see if they can beat their time for one round! Or make it a competition among several classes.</b></i></p><p></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How to make I Have Who Has</span></h3><p>1. Open up Powerpoint and start a new blank presentation. <i>You can also do it in Word, but it's not as easy.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>2. Go to <b>File > Page Setup</b>. </p><p>Change the slide dimensions to 8.5" x 11". Click OK. </p><p>It'll ask you if you want to Scale Up or Down. It doesn't matter - we're going to delete those boxes. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZAHrRwduqTGNi_XUjU4UJWNvpnGmZ9CnwMgy6AehbI-5kNZGL92Jw0aWRKpu704Nti5qEunnBUF08oh--g80tOa6GkvdZw3xDk9IYX-gycOdCQTFZYegp9o915Zgfkt9mKAopXkGhLFTtuRyrvhHaypV1eEVo0i0T2gvHLk0o8KI8FNSv4Qaw2WNXSA/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZAHrRwduqTGNi_XUjU4UJWNvpnGmZ9CnwMgy6AehbI-5kNZGL92Jw0aWRKpu704Nti5qEunnBUF08oh--g80tOa6GkvdZw3xDk9IYX-gycOdCQTFZYegp9o915Zgfkt9mKAopXkGhLFTtuRyrvhHaypV1eEVo0i0T2gvHLk0o8KI8FNSv4Qaw2WNXSA/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>3. Delete the title and subtitle boxes. The slide should be completely blank now.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Let's make margins with shapes. We will delete these later. Go to <b>Insert > Shapes</b> and choose the square.</p><p>Click on the slide and it'll insert a 1" x 1" square. Put the square in a corner and size it to be the length of the slide and 1" wide. Duplicate the square and size it along another edge. Do this along all 4 edges. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgua2JCS8oRCv5UfEsrxanb9lKW5raeQQOrhtcT-e8rDJiBvjBzzYhGqHOy1sNheYakWHRYfM_IG2pJbMIVwV2tKLg8FsFYgDfLaOldJXPClhzCW1Fp8p1VAsznWZTFl4Qfetkk3hhGDSPPfGF6AfEBXDWjLxiFBlGCFoV658ZzrRfCYqhsuCJ89n7ahB0/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgua2JCS8oRCv5UfEsrxanb9lKW5raeQQOrhtcT-e8rDJiBvjBzzYhGqHOy1sNheYakWHRYfM_IG2pJbMIVwV2tKLg8FsFYgDfLaOldJXPClhzCW1Fp8p1VAsznWZTFl4Qfetkk3hhGDSPPfGF6AfEBXDWjLxiFBlGCFoV658ZzrRfCYqhsuCJ89n7ahB0/s320/Slide2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>5. Go to <b>Insert > Table</b> and select a <b>table 3x2</b>.</p><p>Make the <b>shading No Fill, </b>make the <b>line thickness 2.25</b> <i>(or more - it'll be easier to cut with thicker lines),</i> and the <b>borders All Borders. </b></p><p>Pull the table to the top left corner where your margin rectangles are and size the table across the top of the slide. Do not overlap with your margins. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W5lUMu3cS9qDx_PCkib-Ucpj0rWhu-86jT-XkDXvN9sFmNMRFPNLxd8kM_4voR0cf3Zl1975ewoLRO_48GPjeAzszugJm0PJ36UUwl470mOGIqG6URasPmqnyDMfgN_AHoo7jX40Acge2_yiTz_DC3Eh6It6VhpjkiVHvS9f5ci2CXOinXVIRHhU2A/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W5lUMu3cS9qDx_PCkib-Ucpj0rWhu-86jT-XkDXvN9sFmNMRFPNLxd8kM_4voR-0cf3Zl1975ewoLRO_48GPjeAzszugJm0PJ36UUwl470mOGIqG6URasPmqnyDMfgN_AHoo7jX40Acge2_yiTz_DC3Eh6It6VhpjkiVHvS9f5ci2CXOinXVIRHhU2A/s320/Slide3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>6. Put the cursor in one of the boxes and highlight all 6 boxes. Make it <b>font size 14 and Century Gothic</b> <i>(or whatever font you prefer)</i>. Make sure the <b>font is black and words will be centered.</b></p><p><b>Hit enter twice in the top row and 4 times in the bottom row. </b></p><p><b>Copy and paste the box 3 times</b> and evenly space the boxes out in the white space on the slide. </p><p>This slide has 12 cards on it. Duplicate this slide to make as many times as you need to make enough cards for your largest class. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWoLbDtp65VPzLBsuNW91sWIhhDN089LgWuAtFwvoioNNktbNEP10XyEOGjFHPHyKJTdLD0MpzSsa7-f2B2W4GfVUqE3RPpSns76M_jwzxIrTCOhUX3V8RZ_JtkTfDQAXLoA3KbPg3BqqZ3z0Zpd0g6ErPd6E7zG9Ba6dRfXr7xritPZzxjlySPMqsaU/s869/Slide4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWoLbDtp65VPzLBsuNW91sWIhhDN089LgWuAtFwvoioNNktbNEP10XyEOGjFHPHyKJTdLD0MpzSsa7-f2B2W4GfVUqE3RPpSns76M_jwzxIrTCOhUX3V8RZ_JtkTfDQAXLoA3KbPg3BqqZ3z0Zpd0g6ErPd6E7zG9Ba6dRfXr7xritPZzxjlySPMqsaU/s320/Slide4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>7. <b>Grab your list of vocab words you want to use.</b> You need as many vocab words as your biggest class of students. (35 students = 35 vocab words)</p><p>Type "Yo ___ tengo. ()" in the top left box.</p><p>Copy and paste this phrase in the top box of each of the 4 rows of cards. </p><p><i>Don't worry - we'll go back and add in the vocabulary words in parenthesis. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RpRBjYRRJnvFOJTQO_4otdTr-QPRaN4E0ICdQ37xSW2dS0oqr8b251nYmCbW9Eoz5LLztZ6Pmei5vHCrSP5wnTzvhdfrOkRYaohxXJFvoUCcdk-Iug8vEHJ6uJMlAOZUuo1SP9qwGfYFO2hoBZJJlQA17eMks8cYrpt0lXMjpRKSgnFcAQVOnkrzmPg/s869/Slide5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RpRBjYRRJnvFOJTQO_4otdTr-QPRaN4E0ICdQ37xSW2dS0oqr8b251nYmCbW9Eoz5LLztZ6Pmei5vHCrSP5wnTzvhdfrOkRYaohxXJFvoUCcdk-Iug8vEHJ6uJMlAOZUuo1SP9qwGfYFO2hoBZJJlQA17eMks8cYrpt0lXMjpRKSgnFcAQVOnkrzmPg/s320/Slide5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>8. In the bottom box, <b>type <i>"¿Quién tiene ?".</i> </b><i>We're going to put a clipart image just before the question mark, so keep a space between tiene and the question mark. </i></p><p><b>Copy and paste the question </b>into the bottom box of all other cards.<b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWF-Sbxa8ePtqWGTnr2h8Uil-LiBtabB4XmfR5ZolX6KqIByn65PSVPuQAmeqU7JuW6bnBul_kHSAgrFjXPwEPAUpblkDv_xYZxQOqJHNWHG27350F-i0ERW9k-h9-lLKwjBa-hghTvvj4GQFPLBp1SUQJFx899JzUDudwwaVz9KfYHsVYEljA0qjaBYE/s869/Slide6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWF-Sbxa8ePtqWGTnr2h8Uil-LiBtabB4XmfR5ZolX6KqIByn65PSVPuQAmeqU7JuW6bnBul_kHSAgrFjXPwEPAUpblkDv_xYZxQOqJHNWHG27350F-i0ERW9k-h9-lLKwjBa-hghTvvj4GQFPLBp1SUQJFx899JzUDudwwaVz9KfYHsVYEljA0qjaBYE/s320/Slide6.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>9. Then <b>go back and add the vocab in. </b></p><p>Type the <b>first vocab word between the parenthesis in the top left box. </b></p><p>Then add the clipart for that vocab word just before the question mark in the bottom portion of the next card. </p><p><b>For example 👇</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSVHIpTa5rf_qhWDP51CRls6-7CwFSmde-zB0EdAd26iTEi1OeVjeHHi1I6Ot3CVNfbhkcYbC06nl_LKNjVoOE1ewpyzVMEqllhKOPyePG4vEZOhQP0mIuizNOgHVD0k2MAovHKojmC2SRhxrDxPGdwYClhGUuDNetk7iKx-iwwROq5u0suuFcbNJlB4/s869/Slide7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSVHIpTa5rf_qhWDP51CRls6-7CwFSmde-zB0EdAd26iTEi1OeVjeHHi1I6Ot3CVNfbhkcYbC06nl_LKNjVoOE1ewpyzVMEqllhKOPyePG4vEZOhQP0mIuizNOgHVD0k2MAovHKojmC2SRhxrDxPGdwYClhGUuDNetk7iKx-iwwROq5u0suuFcbNJlB4/s320/Slide7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>10. <b>Continue filling in the vocab in this manner: </b>type the vocab word into the top box and insert the clipart into the bottom of the <i>next</i> card. </p><p>The last vocab word's clipart will go into the bottom box of the first card.</p><p><br /></p><p>11. Last step! <b>Delete the blue rectangle margins. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5SKa5mPlCCzJtNtO_S1Ob2oZpxzGANB_3UCRhw2uOakxPBJqG5BZsNAvFDqhdDp1JnhoEXXaKzH8w00DTqCNw742mBQyXhwYG95zZvWdUDgj-asZYy443VuaA6gsIOTqENnSwQhtwBmGA8FGH2vWxv4Z-BmDEL8PqMyB9opJ5VTMJXU8Y3cdWht_Kuc/s869/Slide8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5SKa5mPlCCzJtNtO_S1Ob2oZpxzGANB_3UCRhw2uOakxPBJqG5BZsNAvFDqhdDp1JnhoEXXaKzH8w00DTqCNw742mBQyXhwYG95zZvWdUDgj-asZYy443VuaA6gsIOTqENnSwQhtwBmGA8FGH2vWxv4Z-BmDEL8PqMyB9opJ5VTMJXU8Y3cdWht_Kuc/s320/Slide8.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Now just print onto cardstock, cut the cards out, and you're good to go.</p><p><b><i>Pro tip: They'll last for years if you laminate them.</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFiZXLk9wbRYd9I7rhSF1FPlYp9zzRdAbxrRxhXt4FIP-IZFNDaXi3M2y_xSCXUf-kRzrz7tUjnpRA-esR1CB3L1AqCwQiklldhRu_Fr5KShk55aqcYLYfTGCJW3P-yN_kN8DkRCwv6KfOoA3rEQfS9o31C9p2Gu1GK0mJWKmmCM7lNgF6VNkUcn-k14/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFiZXLk9wbRYd9I7rhSF1FPlYp9zzRdAbxrRxhXt4FIP-IZFNDaXi3M2y_xSCXUf-kRzrz7tUjnpRA-esR1CB3L1AqCwQiklldhRu_Fr5KShk55aqcYLYfTGCJW3P-yN_kN8DkRCwv6KfOoA3rEQfS9o31C9p2Gu1GK0mJWKmmCM7lNgF6VNkUcn-k14/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Have you played <i>I Have Who Has</i> with your classes? 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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-1157002462252847942023-08-28T10:25:00.014-04:002023-09-29T11:19:20.131-04:005 Easy Steps for Free Resources on TpT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqwBoushdhkh8fC-vEU7gF0Lzc4F48iZF9G7M0nWfpW0oas7-nrM7x6cELmfibY6g0kAPbBdalIjvhc86mdvh1Y0NloKI2NANId72vsf1j757Ox-lydeIoST2mwU1MuRuq2cc5s7SJNXXWhomyO8Tvvd2qnGdwOo72tAVn3PiExjbpPUYdZ1-tlKmtwc/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqwBoushdhkh8fC-vEU7gF0Lzc4F48iZF9G7M0nWfpW0oas7-nrM7x6cELmfibY6g0kAPbBdalIjvhc86mdvh1Y0NloKI2NANId72vsf1j757Ox-lydeIoST2mwU1MuRuq2cc5s7SJNXXWhomyO8Tvvd2qnGdwOo72tAVn3PiExjbpPUYdZ1-tlKmtwc/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Did you know you can earn credits toward purchasing resources FOR FREE on TpT?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you're like <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Duh, yes - I leave feedback on every resource I purchase for this exact reason"</em>, then go ahead and stop reading. 😂 </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />And if you are like 👇</span></div><p></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArfBE65rXyMRnq2tJHC7lAdpPO-WvOiCCCtRNfgyrJTFGgTVe8PS71k7ndojUgRxfKpwJMF7U5n2gYWwCddBzPcZ4hJrbcriUGLdvxe8TkUKw3U_RHVlMSS5zBgAwetx83NCUQoQOn0LCF_LUdVf1_3r1pYh2BeL5anOy2ubFKhEYqr9ucGHw1_ZzAzU/s480/giphy.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="480" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArfBE65rXyMRnq2tJHC7lAdpPO-WvOiCCCtRNfgyrJTFGgTVe8PS71k7ndojUgRxfKpwJMF7U5n2gYWwCddBzPcZ4hJrbcriUGLdvxe8TkUKw3U_RHVlMSS5zBgAwetx83NCUQoQOn0LCF_LUdVf1_3r1pYh2BeL5anOy2ubFKhEYqr9ucGHw1_ZzAzU/w400-h204/giphy.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then listen up! Because I've got step-by-step directions to help you earn FREE RESOURCES by leaving feedback on anything and everything you've already purchased. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #8c0969; font-family: helvetica;"><b>How to leave feedback on TpT so you can earn credits toward future purchases</b></span></h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. Log into <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">TpT</span></a></b>. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. Click on your <b>account image</b> in the upper right corner and choose <b>My Purchases. </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvIpSZjP82Xg5apeDlZYit1QnFxb77bV_TqT4-77yzVLFGEfc5NEDVknaVtai8kyTZXpp68CzTdSHzDQj9zNzfj96QzIowmLkQphoQF-fBNQGmh6GMdR2_E9dUTTRqXoERfYLlYn5UCDOti3cTsFRFWXn4EQbBSiG00qKXYe_h_3CMQxh1ifWQkUv15k/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvIpSZjP82Xg5apeDlZYit1QnFxb77bV_TqT4-77yzVLFGEfc5NEDVknaVtai8kyTZXpp68CzTdSHzDQj9zNzfj96QzIowmLkQphoQF-fBNQGmh6GMdR2_E9dUTTRqXoERfYLlYn5UCDOti3cTsFRFWXn4EQbBSiG00qKXYe_h_3CMQxh1ifWQkUv15k/w400-h400/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. Scroll down to any resource that has the black <b>"Leave a Review"</b> button and click on it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH9sLbtqUs-yr9NE9GfqAAb83TsFWF2GDnwT2ydEPUqqY4-htkvs9xhKc7P6h95V3iTUF29nC2dTmq8GCdf4Y-jvhiHaBwYgnMojQqqEW27WAF6j8Y6zvP_zrM5e3wLXCZtlusHZ4m6rKxkTOwYYKrK4OHnmjSWEdMKLp9OOk9xL1Hy6_2C-GAB8Kj34/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMH9sLbtqUs-yr9NE9GfqAAb83TsFWF2GDnwT2ydEPUqqY4-htkvs9xhKc7P6h95V3iTUF29nC2dTmq8GCdf4Y-jvhiHaBwYgnMojQqqEW27WAF6j8Y6zvP_zrM5e3wLXCZtlusHZ4m6rKxkTOwYYKrK4OHnmjSWEdMKLp9OOk9xL1Hy6_2C-GAB8Kj34/w400-h400/Slide3.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4. Follow along with the prompts. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: center;">Choose <b>what you used the resource for</b>, how <b>satisfied</b> you were <i>(everyone loves</i> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">⭐</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">⭐ <i>just sayin')</i>, and write a little <b>blurb</b> about your experience. Click <b>submit</b> when you're done.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be aware there's a 50-character minimum. </span></i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">5. Then when you add a resource<i> (or several</i> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">🙃) to your cart, at checkout you can <b>scroll down BEFORE clicking "Secure Checkout"</b> and your account balance will be listed. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">You can pay for all or part of your purchase with your credits. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><b>Just enter the amount you want to use and click "Apply".</b> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">😄</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeY6lYaTZq2q7YLHYKPe5Huls0HTILmEWiLCQ2Ww6UTZGMiFUU91V0P4vJ_Mpyt6Qj5F7yJKiHAfWxGooGAEpHHCZG_QdgJbo8JMeVsG6NFWJdIuYj0yKl1en4wS_ACgTBoGDiprAqMiPyTIBXZZZoO8FPR3t6-fLdpRQ37X7fCnOS8YXUBogv-gIg0Lk/s869/Slide5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeY6lYaTZq2q7YLHYKPe5Huls0HTILmEWiLCQ2Ww6UTZGMiFUU91V0P4vJ_Mpyt6Qj5F7yJKiHAfWxGooGAEpHHCZG_QdgJbo8JMeVsG6NFWJdIuYj0yKl1en4wS_ACgTBoGDiprAqMiPyTIBXZZZoO8FPR3t6-fLdpRQ37X7fCnOS8YXUBogv-gIg0Lk/w400-h400/Slide5.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span style="color: #8c0969; font-family: helvetica;">How to see how many credits you have</span></b></span></h2></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Click on your account image in the upper right corner and choose <b>"Account Balance". </b><i>It's that easy.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95U7Ue6kWtYYXV-5DOMNGeljX5wJJcFd4pRPDmeLhEejdg6LoWt-YJF5UWTBczkdR8RofMmdcUdCvzIcXYtUMaBhdtGNor34vj2m0yEIEi1qUCOWkfCn4RwnAfsmfBmEJaT6z9t4NWNUaS-MYGDJyk4wNQ1pJQLKC9F6WoidzQt3VpBNyFyL00Go2r7c/s869/Slide4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95U7Ue6kWtYYXV-5DOMNGeljX5wJJcFd4pRPDmeLhEejdg6LoWt-YJF5UWTBczkdR8RofMmdcUdCvzIcXYtUMaBhdtGNor34vj2m0yEIEi1qUCOWkfCn4RwnAfsmfBmEJaT6z9t4NWNUaS-MYGDJyk4wNQ1pJQLKC9F6WoidzQt3VpBNyFyL00Go2r7c/w400-h400/Slide4.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #8c0969; font-family: helvetica;"><b>The value of credits</b></span></h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ready to do some math?<i> I promise it's not that hard. </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You earn 1 credit for every $1.00 you spent. And credits have a value of $0.05 (5 cents). </span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So if you spent $8 on a resource and you left a review on that $8 resource, you earned 8 credits. This will equal 40 cents. <i>(8 credits x $0.05 = $0.40). </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TpT also kindly rounds up to the next dollar for every 50 cents, so a resource that costs $8.50 will earn you 9 credits when you leave a review. <i>(Which will then be worth 45 cents). </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMDX4LseYa2ryObQe92uKt1sLrQnMIEKP6-qSpWpzbi9JuBoxf7vZWuy-pYClPjZK40YUq7d-oOEQ1kQIRFELEzE3IZWu-JUfshmYRj2yq6mG6rjuhOiCLvEUugtBnAo5BjUDSuwM2T4_NkgX5dVM5A1P8TQTWG6tnBgct1VA8bYOZI9zte7C3FyBNHI/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMDX4LseYa2ryObQe92uKt1sLrQnMIEKP6-qSpWpzbi9JuBoxf7vZWuy-pYClPjZK40YUq7d-oOEQ1kQIRFELEzE3IZWu-JUfshmYRj2yq6mG6rjuhOiCLvEUugtBnAo5BjUDSuwM2T4_NkgX5dVM5A1P8TQTWG6tnBgct1VA8bYOZI9zte7C3FyBNHI/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hope this helps you remember to leave feedback on resources and earn some FREE resources! </span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQhRSrCrK5lzTCHxRlmj7f1auAjZJrYX5kSnCImZq0i-AuC42XEZasNKLMPWN_oms8g9M4KkXqSTJYVuLeiPKyXQzULfzqeWeCp2LmZJGpkXPGLnP4LyVz5sJ_quff04xhs_hEyZbUt9eFAkETZAg05SCTnIakgLLMGAU59NCLNHLICsOiTYQ5CVx88k/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQhRSrCrK5lzTCHxRlmj7f1auAjZJrYX5kSnCImZq0i-AuC42XEZasNKLMPWN_oms8g9M4KkXqSTJYVuLeiPKyXQzULfzqeWeCp2LmZJGpkXPGLnP4LyVz5sJ_quff04xhs_hEyZbUt9eFAkETZAg05SCTnIakgLLMGAU59NCLNHLICsOiTYQ5CVx88k/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"></div></div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="force-row" style="border-spacing: 0px; table-layout: fixed; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td align="left" data-contenttype="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="eb_p hover" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-60633502134959698682023-08-24T14:50:00.005-04:002023-09-29T11:18:02.032-04:00The Easiest Way to Prep Your Most Engaging Spanish Lessons (with 6 Simple Essentials)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXynft4Rm5cnPtnjPJc3Hh8sqnCcC4n7GYHoZcahjLdPzcsbAnOK9wMSOoQNUbbdatMOSdo34N2W1hD2znh3mTy_n-6tovxuDlkeo7ZyBEeSNGkZ0OQwfDWY_VEEAFYkSv8m0b4NBdpXqGMqa8bGjZ-2DwcFEfDu0ijmz2xMB2sueKNTWTKfo15fa32Pk/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXynft4Rm5cnPtnjPJc3Hh8sqnCcC4n7GYHoZcahjLdPzcsbAnOK9wMSOoQNUbbdatMOSdo34N2W1hD2znh3mTy_n-6tovxuDlkeo7ZyBEeSNGkZ0OQwfDWY_VEEAFYkSv8m0b4NBdpXqGMqa8bGjZ-2DwcFEfDu0ijmz2xMB2sueKNTWTKfo15fa32Pk/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Is lesson planning taking up all your free time? ⌛</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is personal time <i>just lesson planning time now? </i>🥴 Do you struggle to come up with a <i>variety</i> of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities for your Spanish 1 & 2 classes? 😣</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;">It's hard to keep things fresh and new without making yourself crazy 😵💫 planning and prepping. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And these problems double or triple with multiple preps! 😫</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>But it doesn't have to be like that!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Get your free time back </b>with a simple system that will make lesson planning easy with engaging activities!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>I'll show you my simple system in this FREE Masterclass. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Get it in your inbox and watch from the comfort of your couch in your pjs with a cat on your lap. <i>(The cat is optional </i>😜<i>). </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">You'll learn:</span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;">✅ <b>An easy system</b> for planning highly engaging Spanish lessons bell-to-bell</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">✅ <b>Simple strategies</b> you can implement right away like:</div><div style="text-align: left;">💫 the <b>4 best formats</b> you can rinse and repeat for <b>daily bell work</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">💫 <b>PowerPoint secrets </b>that make your life easier & keep your students engaged</div><div style="text-align: left;">💫<b> 4 interactive classwork activities</b> that you can use asap</div><div style="text-align: left;">💫 <b><i>and so much more!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRVMEaHa5KdA8GdURC2F1xI4NmwEyxH85L0zX1sE_JynkrPQK9VcyqjZWGcdzUnPz91myfZR9gRfLqclny1TkB9ovDcXRhcZ-nu640qIZzn2JQNZmxKMl0td8CSClT078QafSRH1s_7fCTrv73K3auSi1Blva4k8_QKsDyNWz98oIbDksV03Ni_Pke2Jo/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRVMEaHa5KdA8GdURC2F1xI4NmwEyxH85L0zX1sE_JynkrPQK9VcyqjZWGcdzUnPz91myfZR9gRfLqclny1TkB9ovDcXRhcZ-nu640qIZzn2JQNZmxKMl0td8CSClT078QafSRH1s_7fCTrv73K3auSi1Blva4k8_QKsDyNWz98oIbDksV03Ni_Pke2Jo/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-37036511261708248842023-07-03T08:00:00.047-04:002023-09-29T11:17:41.960-04:002 Ways to Make Engaging Spanish Reading Activities that Reinforce Vocabulary<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4EN8kQmufsXY5c1j2TTnXYguqS_Mr3Jyh_2bh4ZM9fOe5pMu3Cyj19HP8Z2EGpch3LTMWGN7v_LMGy6tN5zz7xw_f65MN5Tv9eG3FRt077CQgYF6FF50oDNHVXLUKBiPgxNKghByC_BOXhXcRhukAY1DyQ8GQ4BAAQifTYnf9OcNwaY2xsZKSG9_/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4EN8kQmufsXY5c1j2TTnXYguqS_Mr3Jyh_2bh4ZM9fOe5pMu3Cyj19HP8Z2EGpch3LTMWGN7v_LMGy6tN5zz7xw_f65MN5Tv9eG3FRt077CQgYF6FF50oDNHVXLUKBiPgxNKghByC_BOXhXcRhukAY1DyQ8GQ4BAAQifTYnf9OcNwaY2xsZKSG9_/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />When you're teaching new Spanish vocabulary words, you want students to get all sorts of practice listening, speaking, writing, and <i>reading</i> these new words. <p></p><p>Because how else are they going to master them? </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>And authentic texts are fantastic, but they aren't going to target the new vocabulary words every time you teach new words. </p><p>Which is probably like several days a week. 😂</p><p><i>So what's a teacher to do?</i></p><p>Make. Your. Own.</p><p><b>Here are 2 types of reading activities that are easy to make</b> and will help students learn new vocab words (after they've been formally taught). </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">The Penpal Letter</span></b></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Format</span></b></h3><p>Students read a paragraph and answer questions based on the reading. I usually use clipart for the new vocab words, so they really have to use their brains.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Example</span></b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbjN27_z9jwhu5VlK_iy9SlrSYntIANvnBolue6iP2x8Gh0Q6oyPmiipoOs62kYCjaOpK74hLVQ_IpZ69f_v7EBTRmFs8KD8iS_2T2uIfLi-9L4-oEadXY81T9nmcEr50kMYBgb5fhJibbie8Wohj35geulMMv41_s4NMB5IXQMmV1C41rnV47MU8/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbjN27_z9jwhu5VlK_iy9SlrSYntIANvnBolue6iP2x8Gh0Q6oyPmiipoOs62kYCjaOpK74hLVQ_IpZ69f_v7EBTRmFs8KD8iS_2T2uIfLi-9L4-oEadXY81T9nmcEr50kMYBgb5fhJibbie8Wohj35geulMMv41_s4NMB5IXQMmV1C41rnV47MU8/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The top example above is for teaching school subjects & supplies vocabulary in a Spanish 1 class. It includes clipart for the vocab words, so students have to really think about what the Spanish words are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bottom example is for teaching interests & pastimes vocabulary in a Spanish 2 class with a variety of verbs that work like gustar (interesarse and aburrirse). </div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">How to make it</span></b></h3><p>1. <b>Write a paragraph</b> with the vocabulary you're teaching that day. </p><p>2. <b>Add a greeting</b> at the beginning <b>and closing</b> at the end.</p><p>3. <b>Include previous vocabulary</b> students should already know. </p><p>4. <b>Write questions</b> that specifically target the vocabulary you're teaching. See the example below for the questions to the example texts above.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQTKvjao8NTpjOOTO9UZzXxUTx0Mm4gXDWod4F4StPjTQkStIMjcIxPVgj9imFmc0i1IGJY6PqtQGWoO6QFs0pZnlbDA7aDV8hpl3d9Gdw16Gyj5VOpJy7wAk_smmfyr1Z9vDIu_3VFK-euyH5D9cqA8JuVOxAL5kPETD8oyJ1EL6hSwbu6rkg1jn/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQTKvjao8NTpjOOTO9UZzXxUTx0Mm4gXDWod4F4StPjTQkStIMjcIxPVgj9imFmc0i1IGJY6PqtQGWoO6QFs0pZnlbDA7aDV8hpl3d9Gdw16Gyj5VOpJy7wAk_smmfyr1Z9vDIu_3VFK-euyH5D9cqA8JuVOxAL5kPETD8oyJ1EL6hSwbu6rkg1jn/w640-h640/Slide2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Students are required to read through the text and answer the questions in complete sentences.</p><p><b>I always write the questions in the same order in which the info is in the text</b>, but you can make it trickier and change the order of the questions.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">The Conversation</span></b></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Format</span></b></h3><p>Two or more people discuss a topic or share their experiences and students answer questions about the text.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Example</span></b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2IYgMMksIeWaODlgMv9N2I_8GArSrLzVA1357ZzIAbv2axfrsWHGi4gpXt5L9Zmq5mewCUNbkhj143oPxGpPQGpR8U_hPIH_Np6HsIp7DDVEctsmoPnZuZTpd86IhcnouTMgzbD0g1sqSDqe1q5lak3BBJf4-3q7pmlVQKfgwE0oJBERK7cjWwIV/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS2IYgMMksIeWaODlgMv9N2I_8GArSrLzVA1357ZzIAbv2axfrsWHGi4gpXt5L9Zmq5mewCUNbkhj143oPxGpPQGpR8U_hPIH_Np6HsIp7DDVEctsmoPnZuZTpd86IhcnouTMgzbD0g1sqSDqe1q5lak3BBJf4-3q7pmlVQKfgwE0oJBERK7cjWwIV/w640-h640/Slide3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The example above is for teaching places in town and giving directions vocabulary in a Spanish 2 class. Two students are lost in a city and have to ask directions for how to get somewhere. </div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">How to make it</span></b></h3><p>1. <b>Write a conversation</b> with the vocabulary you're teaching that day. </p><p>2. Add any necessary info to<b> give the conversation context.</b></p><p>3. <b>Include previous vocabulary</b> students should already know. </p><p>4. <b>Write questions</b> that specifically target the vocabulary you're teaching. See the example below for the questions to the example text above.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyKV5ohIKmPBxkGxswG5WXy_OgTlZ1lNFEHE3L9O2MyGnbncxn7rceLcYETMhEOkzC2ZUzjEuSfxvC_4RmLU2NpWafxUoPA-JyNV-fZ98EclREvIE84H1UpINqQhDrWYVw_eh3YNluQzfZ4Y0JQfysH6FnJgAssVhiDZkaM2tdwWcrVUgGo38bo3m/s869/Slide4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyKV5ohIKmPBxkGxswG5WXy_OgTlZ1lNFEHE3L9O2MyGnbncxn7rceLcYETMhEOkzC2ZUzjEuSfxvC_4RmLU2NpWafxUoPA-JyNV-fZ98EclREvIE84H1UpINqQhDrWYVw_eh3YNluQzfZ4Y0JQfysH6FnJgAssVhiDZkaM2tdwWcrVUgGo38bo3m/w640-h640/Slide4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Again, I always write the questions in the same order in which the info is in the conversation, but you can make it trickier by changing the order of the questions. <div><br /></div><div>I write questions that target that day's vocabulary and require students to use it.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Check out the resources mentioned above</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-School-Supplies-and-Subjects-Lesson-858030" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT571rAEyv8yiWlwxg1dmqMrlem8WRLSbw2e4W-FuHE7x3AjEzOLzyCNEjYxayipRwkGCtuOoYdWEgP8DNsN2p-hFDAgJbZHS5IMF4FlwStxluXhzT1y1-n5G-Do3zHyCzQ9jZvZU-OupgpLvY5ZfVVfRbgo25QBlx2NlETToleyGhnwJbnAcTwMDC/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-School-Supplies-and-Subjects-Lesson-858030" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Spanish School Subjects & Supplies Lesson</span></a></b> is ideal for a Spanish 1 class and brings together both school subjects & school supplies vocabularies. Both are taught individually in previous lessons. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Interests-and-Pastimes-Lesson-3-7819140" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHB-YPMKrnlJnMkBlFUSZAvYDf8CXTTrRI1zpTdLoQDrJAUlOAJuTSP5ysYgPNjDPSJoAYj1YWQs5fxVAzUX8X5fCuhny-FtMDBLtae9ZnCTsX4-ef_tonWBsYgPpeDmwqjxoEB-aON0b2A_bsH8I3R1i2wYE7PmF-X20eVxLjR6-Ptd9qsEsk0nv/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Interests-and-Pastimes-Lesson-3-7819140" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Spanish Interests & Pastimes Lesson 3</span></a></b> is ideal for a Spanish 2 class. This lesson brings together interests & pastimes vocabulary taught in the previous 2 lessons + includes both <i>interesarse</i> and <i>aburrirse</i>. </div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Places-in-Town-Lesson-2-with-Directions-7361380" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsEcxH8YfZGWxKuSq8EnFt5cURXtoB5fd_U9CevHrNz3sGHK_0jiRsnGda6x9J3YvRkufWkDWfweruAxOqDXZoZJD_PpdBcadgM_YuFc_SCDPUJci441tSfL_nDqWQyQKaDU_E39SUyiHOOgSO4MiBz8JTquvOSOkoJrfffmO3n58HoP6tl5iOVDH/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Places-in-Town-Lesson-2-with-Directions-7361380" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Spanish Places in Town with Giving Directions Lesson 2</span></a></b> is ideal for a Spanish 2 class. Students learn giving directions vocabulary from this lesson and the previous one, and it includes places in town vocabulary taught over 4 previous lessons. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__gdzikpWtHiFvSHTZPiwW9lJueHe4nlnEax-Rxd6UXN-Y31AdYcshbx0dRHWVH8q78X9uSmzdEjQx4PXFeeHpHUep0ZuHxdhdysysI2Chzo0aIjKNBFCj6AjibCNY51YtiGAydz2PVz3rKmmwLjJW2XARYRFHV_oGGrmxFAz-v6QDBXXOnBwRtYH/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__gdzikpWtHiFvSHTZPiwW9lJueHe4nlnEax-Rxd6UXN-Y31AdYcshbx0dRHWVH8q78X9uSmzdEjQx4PXFeeHpHUep0ZuHxdhdysysI2Chzo0aIjKNBFCj6AjibCNY51YtiGAydz2PVz3rKmmwLjJW2XARYRFHV_oGGrmxFAz-v6QDBXXOnBwRtYH/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>What types of reading activities do you make to teach and reinforce vocabulary? 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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-35300526944457442942023-06-19T08:30:00.004-04:002023-09-29T11:17:27.966-04:003 Easy Tips for Teaching Spanish Vocabulary in Context<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EzUGqdKstHiQhygqAiNWNfWZZpf_h0rmPW_zzEiGqUj7z17tVJZ6ICYA1fOVAYqvzR414UEfhwOYe8_SraYlPYd7ZhDC9srv5kvpWP1HpHqPTom0i2FW8PTclMxuccNTcLrjJIVfWtfexeRS1jbWmZRkM8ioBc768SksNDO64ul_GeMultf3u8-m/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EzUGqdKstHiQhygqAiNWNfWZZpf_h0rmPW_zzEiGqUj7z17tVJZ6ICYA1fOVAYqvzR414UEfhwOYe8_SraYlPYd7ZhDC9srv5kvpWP1HpHqPTom0i2FW8PTclMxuccNTcLrjJIVfWtfexeRS1jbWmZRkM8ioBc768SksNDO64ul_GeMultf3u8-m/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Let's assume you have a list of 40 food vocabulary words you have to teach your Spanish 1 students in a Food Unit.</p><p>Let's plan out how to do that <i>in context!</i></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 1: What <i>context</i> would they use those words in?</span></b></h2><p>They'd use food vocab in a restaurant. </p><p>They'd also use them at home saying what they <i>like</i>, what they <i>want</i> for dinner, what foods they <i>prefer</i>, etc. </p><p><b>Pick a context that makes sense for you, your students, your curriculum, etc. </b></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 2: Now let's divide up that vocab list. </span></b></h2><p>Please please please don't give your students 40 words to learn in one day unless absolutely every single one of them is a cognate. Even then it might be a lot. 😂</p><p>Food words can be easy to divide up by meals - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. </p><p><b>I aim to teach 10-14 new words in a lesson. 12 is my ideal number. </b></p><p>So in this scenario, I would teach 40 words over 4 days. I'd push it and teach 13-14 words every day in 3 days if I had to or if I had especially motivated students. </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Step 3: Match each day's vocab list with a grammar context that will make sense. </span></b></h2><p>Maybe Day 1 you only want to teach yo & tú forms of querer. Then Day 2 will be all forms of querer, Day 3 will be all forms of preferir, and Day 4 will be all forms of pedir. </p><p><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Pro tip: </span>include Day 1's vocab words in Day 2's lesson.</b> Include Day 1's and Day 2's vocab words in Day 3's lesson... etc. That way students don't immediately forget the previous vocab. 🙂</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Next steps</span></b></h2><p>I'd make <b>animated powerpoints</b> teaching the vocab words with clipart in the context of the grammar topics I chose. </p><p>Then I'd come up with a <b>variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities</b> to teach those vocab words in context for that unit. </p><p>Et voila! <b>Your unit is all planned out with your vocab words in context!</b></p><p>Share in the comments how you plan and teach vocab in context! 👇</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXPKmLEhgO81ZMClMO62wV7Vorlz79fWCTKeFfr7P2kXbyPUxLwrnNPVyd-fH1TUip6iG-__ZjdZHfCZeOnEjU3khS81pueSLTePECyc_qniDiSGQk7Gdl3uGaWs79Uy0NvyJ6kuV-i7_PzPkd3ht2EaDGUsd5CYgrqhMkWd3IfTvVCykn07lIpcC/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXPKmLEhgO81ZMClMO62wV7Vorlz79fWCTKeFfr7P2kXbyPUxLwrnNPVyd-fH1TUip6iG-__ZjdZHfCZeOnEjU3khS81pueSLTePECyc_qniDiSGQk7Gdl3uGaWs79Uy0NvyJ6kuV-i7_PzPkd3ht2EaDGUsd5CYgrqhMkWd3IfTvVCykn07lIpcC/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-17651107316758794332023-05-18T14:57:00.006-04:002023-09-29T12:29:41.325-04:00Review Games in Spanish Class: a terrific twist on The Unfair Game<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTAuHB5AcXsqEHfIpzvRHZ4tMMdDa99NHxzqdAXWWsi2Q19IUwiPPH3aAWkScNvAvwDNIJIXoWiZQ7dFFaQvlpeGverVh8eVHCAsZfglbDme3KBYI2XDh4g6sBBhsFNIebUlppvwdMqhb6HfP7E6M2A5JW1g-8JhsdVrtxvgBWAoLwIi0zasajHbo/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTAuHB5AcXsqEHfIpzvRHZ4tMMdDa99NHxzqdAXWWsi2Q19IUwiPPH3aAWkScNvAvwDNIJIXoWiZQ7dFFaQvlpeGverVh8eVHCAsZfglbDme3KBYI2XDh4g6sBBhsFNIebUlppvwdMqhb6HfP7E6M2A5JW1g-8JhsdVrtxvgBWAoLwIi0zasajHbo/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I came across <b><a href="https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/2015/10/27/the-unfair-game/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">The Unfair Game</span></a></b> many years ago looking for a whole-class review game for my Spanish classes. <p></p><p>Basically, students work in groups to answer questions and the point value isn't revealed until after they've answered the question. And sometimes the point values are negative. </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Or there's a twist on that, where groups can assign the point value to another group or keep it for themselves.</p><p>I think it sounds super fun and it adds a new level to the game beyond the Spanish vocab and grammar you're reviewing, but <b>I just felt like it would leave my students screaming at each other and upset about negative point values</b>... I couldn't bring myself to teach students those rules. </p><p>So I adjusted it. To make it less likely to result in screaming. <i>Or maybe just imagined screaming.</i></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">How this review game works</span></b></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">Divide the class into teams</span></h3><p>The Unfair Game ideally has 2 teams, but with classes of 30+ kids, I don't find this to be ideal. It's too easy for quiet kids to hide and not take part in the game when there are 15+ kids per team.</p><p>I divide the class into teams of 4-6 students. This likely results in <b>5-6 teams total.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">The questions</span></b></h3><p>The Unfair Game has one team answer the question and then take or lose the points. </p><p>And like the other 25 kids are supposed to... <i>twiddle their thumbs silently?</i></p><p><i>Yeah okay.</i></p><p><b>I gave each group a small whiteboard and every team had to answer every question.</b></p><p>This meant every team got the point value assigned to each question. (As long as they got the answer correct.)</p><p><i>And if you don't have small whiteboards, a piece of paper will work just fine!</i></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">The point values</span></b></h3><p>The Unfair Game has negative point values assigned sometimes. Even if students answer the question correctly.</p><p>I felt like this would potentially result in a mutiny in my classroom, which is something I generally try to avoid.</p><p><b>I only assigned positive point values ranging from 2-13 points to each question.</b></p><p>And I assigned the point values randomly - they're not an indication of how hard the question is.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">The board set-up</span></b></h3><p>I created 5 categories with 5 questions each (25 questions total). I lettered the questions in each category A-E. </p><p><b>Each group took a turn choosing a question, which all groups would then answer. </b></p><p>You can use this setup for literally any vocab or grammar topic and any level of Spanish! </p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">The powerpoint</span></b></h3><p>I created the powerpoint so that the Jeopardy-style slide with categories and A-E on it <b>hyperlinked to each question</b> when you click a letter, and each question slide has a button to take you back to the category slide. </p><p>And the <b>answers are animated to the screen with a click</b> so no one sees answers before I want them to. </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Grab an editable template</span></b></h2><p>Download a FREE editable review game template!</p><p></p><p></p><p>This review game will work well with any level of Spanish, any vocab, and any grammar. 😆</p><p></p><div class="kartra_optin_containera5bfc9e07964f8dddeb95fc584cd965d"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/EBRd3JT08uoQ"></script><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCwgDgz5GHmwgAGB15jXn4D4sVeptBCu9I-uQaf-4_rV-TxJUSdnAVO0XDW4-hLn_t10j7j5mFOrGSWundnkXxZi5iNOT3IFN3jz1a8W6pkJBTEAP2FuTbbjtwpfkv8wAyArq-_L2GKxNTxmO70NIHFJCSfUeNclERdpzBhwdqSOuIDkaU7eaiRRS/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="43" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCwgDgz5GHmwgAGB15jXn4D4sVeptBCu9I-uQaf-4_rV-TxJUSdnAVO0XDW4-hLn_t10j7j5mFOrGSWundnkXxZi5iNOT3IFN3jz1a8W6pkJBTEAP2FuTbbjtwpfkv8wAyArq-_L2GKxNTxmO70NIHFJCSfUeNclERdpzBhwdqSOuIDkaU7eaiRRS/s320/Slide2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Have you played this or a similar review game with your class? 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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-68988894487149068702023-03-22T13:16:00.007-04:002023-09-29T11:16:32.763-04:00Best Game Ever in Spanish Class: Go Fish<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvM6O9YvGMAr7aMX36pAt-Ujihdhkn2hM_dTcRRjVIrwMfY3BxtwMw_YDjK6C1ZVqzQ1doyP6Pbsry3gArm69Pk32VmuKYkXsI2qlq2NBLmcq96AbaYssTs6L_jCLfcnRI8NPehAY_sK0AmbaTQdXNHBZSS55uq3QlTWOMIyNyVuY-fYapeFNXTTM/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvM6O9YvGMAr7aMX36pAt-Ujihdhkn2hM_dTcRRjVIrwMfY3BxtwMw_YDjK6C1ZVqzQ1doyP6Pbsry3gArm69Pk32VmuKYkXsI2qlq2NBLmcq96AbaYssTs6L_jCLfcnRI8NPehAY_sK0AmbaTQdXNHBZSS55uq3QlTWOMIyNyVuY-fYapeFNXTTM/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />If you're looking for a <b>fun and engaging game to review just about any vocab</b> - look no further than Go Fish!<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><p>Unless you want something low-prep.</p><p><i>This is not low-prep.</i> 😂</p><p>But it can be the second time you use it if you laminate everything! </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">What topics work well for Go Fish</span></h2><p>Honestly<b> just about any vocab topic as long as you have about 20 words (with clipart images). </b></p><p>You don't want too many <i>(like over 25 vocab words)</i> because then the games will last foreverrrrrrr.</p><p>And too few<i> (under 15 vocab words) </i>means the games will end very quickly. </p><p><b>Some vocab set ideas to get you started:</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>adjectives</li><li>activities with gustar</li><li>school vocab</li><li>clothing vocab</li><li>food vocab</li><li>places in town</li></ul><p></p><p><b>You want to choose a vocab set where students will have 1 question starter to ask.</b> Like "<i>¿Te gusta cantar?</i>" And then if the other student has cantar, they hand it over.</p><p>Or for clothing vocab "<i>¿Llevas los pantalones?</i>". </p><p>Or for food vocab "<i>¿Prefieres el pollo?</i>"</p><p>Or for places in town "<i>¿Fuiste al supermercado?</i>"</p><p>You get the idea. You don't want to mix clothing and school vocab because then it would get confusing for students to remember which question to ask. </p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How to make Go Fish</span></h2><p><b>I strongly suggest you use Powerpoint </b>because Microsoft Word doesn't play well with others or with images. And images are kind of the whole point of Go Fish.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Open a new Powerpoint presentation. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. Go to <b>File > Page Setup > make the slide dimensions 8.5" x 11" > OK</b>. </p><p>It will ask you if you want to scale up or down. It doesn't matter which you click because the slide is blank anyway.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_n0wd6dzAob_NCMjfHOpY96kJDN5tqUOVL8ogTXthOvELECB0LYFgGcqV8fQhFrUmUolM8dtnMFDdPmcK-fAyIgSsRYptKC0a9aVfM1eLoQu_cIACD96KR-vX2DCEbN_zBeIWInGvhm8wDZxyiicTFV1NAvKYBtA7pPZsTyj1gk9nczbVZml1EQUI/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_n0wd6dzAob_NCMjfHOpY96kJDN5tqUOVL8ogTXthOvELECB0LYFgGcqV8fQhFrUmUolM8dtnMFDdPmcK-fAyIgSsRYptKC0a9aVfM1eLoQu_cIACD96KR-vX2DCEbN_zBeIWInGvhm8wDZxyiicTFV1NAvKYBtA7pPZsTyj1gk9nczbVZml1EQUI/s320/Slide1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>3. Delete the Title and Subtitle boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Go to <b>Insert > Table > make the dimensions 4 x 4 > Insert</b>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuL1MFMbQ1fR99q7cgUhENQy71gyugh5PP1U0B7awhrCJ2uekE1gy6TsakOFNlRpgkg-lWTQlJNTrcArLNLge9dzpXPursOydX25_GOR42ce9VO4JOmQQQvseH6bjFvRXahNc_Y70cM17In5EmCHLd75kFKrslwYLfjs2uIG187OJUt9L0uNWnimu/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuL1MFMbQ1fR99q7cgUhENQy71gyugh5PP1U0B7awhrCJ2uekE1gy6TsakOFNlRpgkg-lWTQlJNTrcArLNLge9dzpXPursOydX25_GOR42ce9VO4JOmQQQvseH6bjFvRXahNc_Y70cM17In5EmCHLd75kFKrslwYLfjs2uIG187OJUt9L0uNWnimu/s320/Slide2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>5. Go to Table Design and set the line thickness to 4.5 point. Format the table so it has <b>all borders</b> (they should be very thick) and <b>shading is 'no fill'</b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>6. Click on your table. Go to <b>Layout</b>. Make the <b>height 10" and width 7.5"</b>. Drag the table so it's centered on your slide.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JGwYdK2wKrJU2QvNER4DwUcTXeFgFmzP3cxHzu0bWAcQiBD7ZOgCZcfCC7oRpWZrdOKDQ0iJHvv4eVf1y32gVrzU-1jV9XqKK5Uxd-_9yDE3wURU4dcc8WTPM7jekeZZE3Tob3jpmzQFQulB00wSJymEa_rL-PTnyC_qjw9qQHX-cJPl7N04vLKd/s869/Slide3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1JGwYdK2wKrJU2QvNER4DwUcTXeFgFmzP3cxHzu0bWAcQiBD7ZOgCZcfCC7oRpWZrdOKDQ0iJHvv4eVf1y32gVrzU-1jV9XqKK5Uxd-_9yDE3wURU4dcc8WTPM7jekeZZE3Tob3jpmzQFQulB00wSJymEa_rL-PTnyC_qjw9qQHX-cJPl7N04vLKd/s320/Slide3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>7. You'll insert each clipart 4 times. This means you can put 4 cliparts per page. <b>Duplicate your slide</b> so that you have enough pages for all clipart.</p><p><i>Example: If you have 20 cliparts, you will need 5 pages. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>8. <b>Insert each clipart 4 times</b> - one into each box across a row. Or down a column. <i>Doesn't matter.</i></p><p><b>Pro tip: </b>Insert a clipart item one time onto your powerpoint. Size it so it fits inside a box <i>without touching the lines</i>. Copy and paste it 3 times and center the other 3 images in their boxes. </p><p><i>You do not want the clipart images to touch the lines because you're going to cut along those lines and wiggle room is your friend. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigq7xFDMmHQQjCh0s-lphrytqo__oAUx3UwSMkSg46PAYEdD1-n1Vdvm8iuKQVtSoHiZVeQXazjkMmZA11f7VJCqoDdbhmRaCg6qeTeQPhCIFyTQf20gDfqwmFjC92SwQzSsdC3ol8NgP3v74IS36LAVswzw5ly3F5pndFgMQqm9yTNxtZ40UIc1Xu/s869/Slide4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigq7xFDMmHQQjCh0s-lphrytqo__oAUx3UwSMkSg46PAYEdD1-n1Vdvm8iuKQVtSoHiZVeQXazjkMmZA11f7VJCqoDdbhmRaCg6qeTeQPhCIFyTQf20gDfqwmFjC92SwQzSsdC3ol8NgP3v74IS36LAVswzw5ly3F5pndFgMQqm9yTNxtZ40UIc1Xu/s320/Slide4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The clipart shown here is from one of my favorite TpT stores <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Promoting-Success" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">Promoting Success</span></a></b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>9. <b>Print the Go Fish set you just made onto card stock. </b>Print enough so your biggest class can play in groups of 4 students. <i>(If your biggest class is 30 students, print 8 sets.)</i></p><p>You want to use thick paper or students will be able to see through it and no one likes a game where cheating is easy.</p><p><i>Pro tip: <b>Use colored card stock. </b>Use at least 2 different colors, but really as many different colors as you have. Students will leave cards on the floor at the end of the period and this will help you figure out which set it belongs to.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>10. If you will literally ever want to use this game ever ever ever again - <b>laminate every page</b>. If you have no regard for Future You Problems, then skip this step.</p><p><br /></p><p>11. <b>Cut out all the squares. </b>Use a paper cutter, use a child old enough to be able to cut on the lines. Teach your dog to help you. </p><p><i>This is the worst part IMO. But Future You will thank you if you didn't skip Step 10 and you never have to do this again.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>12. <b>Place each Go Fish set into a plastic bag. </b>Sandwich size should be large enough.<b> </b></p><p><i>Pro tip: Number the baggies and pay attention to which group you hand out which bag to. This will help you figure out which set the random piece on the floor at the end of class belongs to.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How to play Go Fish in class</span></h2><p>1. Divide students into <b>groups of 3-5. </b></p><p>2. Give each group a Go Fish set.</p><p>3. <b>Teach students the question starter </b>you want them to use. It should be something they already learned in class.</p><p><b>Question starter ideas:</b></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Adjectives -><i> ¿Eres ___?</i></li><li>Activities with gustar -> <i>¿Te gusta ___?</i></li><li>School vocab -> <i>¿Tienes ___?</i></li><li>Clothing vocab -> <i>¿Llevas ___?</i></li><li>Food vocab -> <i>¿Prefieres ___?</i></li><li>Places in town -> <i>¿Fuiste al / a la ___?</i></li></ul><p>4. Shuffle the deck and deal every student 5 cards. </p><p>5. Just like regular Go Fish, Student A has to address Student B and ask their question with a particular vocab word they're looking for. They must already have that vocab clipart image in their hand.</p><p><b>If Student B has the vocab word</b>, they say "<i>Sí, me gusta ___</i>" Or "<i>Sí, tengo ___</i>" or whatever the y<i>o</i> form response is for that question and they hand the card over. Student A gets to go again.</p><p><b>If Student B doesn't have the vocab card</b>, they say "No, no me gusta ___. Pesca." or "No, no tengo ___. Pesca." or whatever the <i>yo</i> form response is. Student A then draws a card from the deck and the next student goes.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Is there a digital version?</span></h2><p><b>I can't figure out how it would be possible to play digitally </b>and not have all students see each other's cards. </p><p>Comment below or email me at Jessica@MissSenoritaTpt.com if you're smarter than me and can figure it out. I'd love to make it!</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Want it already done for you?</span></h2><p>I have Go Fish sets already created in my <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Miss-Senorita/Category/-128515-Games-60027" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">TpT store</span></a></b>. </p><p>You'll find:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Adjectives</li><li>AR, ER, IR Verbs</li><li>Clothing vocab</li><li>Food vocab</li><li>School Subjects vocab</li><li>School Supplies vocab</li><li>Things You Like vocab</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBf8e2ZmC8tOrKWDM_Dm7TAJ7lBh5Q9gWDw4cbUhKn7VA-GbD8d_Et8mXV7D57_M8HvG3-IluE1IYy4M1XulL-JvCqeYjH3WcX9EkXvM8wJQdAjR7xXvY97HAwohVg76burdXoMlHPXeiJNxvvrzDBllQW6heGfgbjDCR7DbmrccL7F9Lp7yEsyR3c/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBf8e2ZmC8tOrKWDM_Dm7TAJ7lBh5Q9gWDw4cbUhKn7VA-GbD8d_Et8mXV7D57_M8HvG3-IluE1IYy4M1XulL-JvCqeYjH3WcX9EkXvM8wJQdAjR7xXvY97HAwohVg76burdXoMlHPXeiJNxvvrzDBllQW6heGfgbjDCR7DbmrccL7F9Lp7yEsyR3c/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Have you ever played Go Fish with vocab words in your class? 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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-4885239146979667672023-01-10T15:58:00.008-05:002023-09-29T11:16:17.580-04:002 Easy Tips for Creating Assessments Quickly<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTxfU1mjXV39RGG9d6fOo7Dnle7ucLarzscS9mRlqkciYtgKCJovOZBZ0liJg4TokchOO_nl2N2GJsWMbk_sxDtE9eqJ0toFDXTN7Rp0lVXAaNXfTurT7LUWxPd_o5i18K9Y4Ee4GtFNOxxuoXc6dMXK7ap3_O7EU6z3RxkEqkF7-XvNbyMrRWJic/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTxfU1mjXV39RGG9d6fOo7Dnle7ucLarzscS9mRlqkciYtgKCJovOZBZ0liJg4TokchOO_nl2N2GJsWMbk_sxDtE9eqJ0toFDXTN7Rp0lVXAaNXfTurT7LUWxPd_o5i18K9Y4Ee4GtFNOxxuoXc6dMXK7ap3_O7EU6z3RxkEqkF7-XvNbyMrRWJic/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I always felt like I was barely keeping up in 8th grade math. But I was keeping up. <div><br /></div><div><i>The barely part was stressful though.</i></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>And then the test would come and I swear the teacher would ask questions we had never seen before or frame the questions in a format I was unfamiliar with.</div><div><br /></div><div>Getting As on most of the classworks and Bs on all the tests was my overachieving nightmare. 😂</div><div><br /></div><div><b>I have 2 tips to make creating assessments easy </b>and to make sure you aren't repeating the mistakes of my 8th grade math teacher. 😂🙃</div><div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Use Classworks Students Have Already Seen</span></h3><p>Want to make sure you're not accidentally testing students in a format they're unfamiliar with?</p><p><i>Because the only thing more anxiety-inducing than a test is one with question types students have never seen before... </i>😬 <i>(#8thgrademath)</i></p><p><b>Copy and paste questions from classwork, bell work, and homework you've already given students.</b></p><p>Change the subject pronouns or make the fill-in-the-blank sentences into multiple choice. Change a verb here or there. </p><p>Make it so it's not <i>identical</i>. But, like, it's 90% the same. </p><p>And it's definitely a format and topic they're familiar with. (<i>Or should be.</i> 🙈)</p><p>This not only ensures you aren't getting so creative that students are confused by the format of the question, but also <b>it makes creating the assessment that much easier for you.</b></p><p>And you don't need more work to do.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Use a Template</span></h3><div><b>Make a template assessment for yourself so you can just fill in the topics you want to test and aren't spending time playing with the formatting.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>My template has highlighted portions that I need to change for each individual assessment and a framework for different types of questions. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDydfYRUaq_zWvnEq_FB4mMDOX47cVL1Pw6_TFD2Lzuk0-1QvLI8aLOhEqC3zxsEu_qz6NazMYp_xOPL83EAhjMVBvMk02fbYRR9OpbWaX2mayZw3u8528pAEqf0ATQXHXiazvFnVVZlJj62RBbP9zvSr11Gzn4HYsDkhSTR0uOozsqyXe9E_bWd9/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDydfYRUaq_zWvnEq_FB4mMDOX47cVL1Pw6_TFD2Lzuk0-1QvLI8aLOhEqC3zxsEu_qz6NazMYp_xOPL83EAhjMVBvMk02fbYRR9OpbWaX2mayZw3u8528pAEqf0ATQXHXiazvFnVVZlJj62RBbP9zvSr11Gzn4HYsDkhSTR0uOozsqyXe9E_bWd9/w400-h400/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>You could even write out numbers 1-50 and A, B, C, D answer options if you know every assessment will be 50 multiple-choice questions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whatever makes it easier in the future. And also ensures you don't forget a reading section. Or any other section you want to include every time. 😆🙃</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XLPN0UYM872gyxUkK9SaYO93u8HoEMtcap7FrsLQCatVZDGi7COMdkrl-DnGTclGKvNzV0DzuO3VfWlDJMdTlYGBFxz3vGons0Or2RL6la3EzhylEMvaK2MsxaXjuDc_gNrB_tVAzEMBCF3AypmBJ52Qny3SCVzjqeZpBWfmNv5vCQOn84qd3NyP/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XLPN0UYM872gyxUkK9SaYO93u8HoEMtcap7FrsLQCatVZDGi7COMdkrl-DnGTclGKvNzV0DzuO3VfWlDJMdTlYGBFxz3vGons0Or2RL6la3EzhylEMvaK2MsxaXjuDc_gNrB_tVAzEMBCF3AypmBJ52Qny3SCVzjqeZpBWfmNv5vCQOn84qd3NyP/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What tips do you have to make creating assessments easy? Share in the comments below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDr8rboWheVPaCZaNDQKoWzIBGLhKsGkW9rTJSww6sVKm_-k7BqtyRZmWuAARzXJgWYNwcHX0xdjcuU1F27D9RKu5WhhhbfdIb4EDMvKmnRdfyULqdYWLY6cYU8CyK6o_GXGhTG1G_32Ihx4mEofNylUZ3FD8Y9gHyd2peCObYW8Mv2mnO9MM81t_9/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDr8rboWheVPaCZaNDQKoWzIBGLhKsGkW9rTJSww6sVKm_-k7BqtyRZmWuAARzXJgWYNwcHX0xdjcuU1F27D9RKu5WhhhbfdIb4EDMvKmnRdfyULqdYWLY6cYU8CyK6o_GXGhTG1G_32Ihx4mEofNylUZ3FD8Y9gHyd2peCObYW8Mv2mnO9MM81t_9/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-88994036196468434222022-10-17T14:06:00.015-04:002023-09-29T11:16:07.428-04:00Low-Prep Spanish 1 Project: Clothing Fashion Magazine Project<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAMEXciLkylQZmjg3ZPb0I-F2hnsHVmz5m8oCHopuKZIyYVZOV4E5tE1EZx824Nty71zeaSCLReVaWU1TKmmXwOU_7Csj3A4bI6Md3JiG3ao9KkgncVsiZO3oKR5HiYm6_D9mpMg1jwI0QpeieHfa_pYHsWHdWFzBQcxRwyWKMw_ApEpQlt3NDpfq/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAMEXciLkylQZmjg3ZPb0I-F2hnsHVmz5m8oCHopuKZIyYVZOV4E5tE1EZx824Nty71zeaSCLReVaWU1TKmmXwOU_7Csj3A4bI6Md3JiG3ao9KkgncVsiZO3oKR5HiYm6_D9mpMg1jwI0QpeieHfa_pYHsWHdWFzBQcxRwyWKMw_ApEpQlt3NDpfq/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Imagine the scenario where you have students working quietly for 3 days creating a "magazine" to show off their Spanish clothing and accessories vocabulary.<p></p><p>And <i>cuesta</i> with numbers, just for funsies.</p><p>This can be your reality, my friend!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>With this project, <b>students create outfits for each season and write what each person is wearing. </b></p><p>They can also make up prices because who doesn't love weirdly expensive clothing. </p><p>This project can be done on powerpoint or in Google Slides.</p><p>I spend <b>three 50-minute periods on this project</b>, but you could extend it for longer if that works for you or give your students less time if they're highly motivated. </p><p><b>Wanna get this project ready to go for you? </b>Grab it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Clothing-Fashion-Magazine-Project-306521?utm_source=blog%20post&utm_campaign=Clothing%20Fashion%20Mag%20Proj%20blog%20post_10.17.22" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">here</span></b></a> from my TpT store. Print today and start the project tomorrow!</p><p>It includes a rubric, teacher's guide, and templates for powerpoint and Google Slides.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Clothing-Fashion-Magazine-Project-306521?utm_source=blog%20post&utm_campaign=Clothing%20Fashion%20Mag%20Proj%20blog%20post_10.17.22" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2TQ2VTK85tRB9aNj8sirVpKeVP19cemjmOZXLIlYKg0BB1rZbEoAw-4AfdlndIul1D8p0hYz8p264gHHZWIxjA4Cr-HOQTOVO4sh6Yfg6C43bVSusK93prHLoXZ0e1SziOKnIk9HWNpBHYN0AUwvKtiahW3V0SGtbReOnjgk8M-lfwH1n0ymjdCEK/w400-h400/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Do you have a project you use to finish the Clothing Unit in Spanish 1? Share in the comments below! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNvqozVTg7pOCKVRB2x8KaoJaEsgSMLQAe-8pzCk_Jr-mTWZyab6pqsd6Acx-30_qVMVnMQXlOGDJNUFnMLmFQsOFAVAJ1KoePgff0YjhEiBycLQU3RES_yTGGzfE2Ya6r9dnY-CdpSlAiaQytLbSsNUf7n2DWJERTdqrMH0PENM0ojk3D_dwxu8U/s1500/Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNvqozVTg7pOCKVRB2x8KaoJaEsgSMLQAe-8pzCk_Jr-mTWZyab6pqsd6Acx-30_qVMVnMQXlOGDJNUFnMLmFQsOFAVAJ1KoePgff0YjhEiBycLQU3RES_yTGGzfE2Ya6r9dnY-CdpSlAiaQytLbSsNUf7n2DWJERTdqrMH0PENM0ojk3D_dwxu8U/w640-h192/Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-57926468302410419932022-08-20T10:00:00.007-04:002023-09-29T11:15:57.247-04:003 Easy Tips for Teaching the Spanish Date Unit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeGnQe5xWQqCiZyUISBWLFvkx5JfroZjm4lI6ggiLpOdcM8iLxOTQe9imzlqtXcxOxUmTstjdQ2VUpe9VwFtO1GBsGU1HiMAg7DYSfFGvVASyuKlW6fY7x5AdShTUGZCKPdveB8VzhnTRcAy8WAVYcaX3A7RX5F04IbLq4rnlz_b7wYMPlkulXyLC/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeGnQe5xWQqCiZyUISBWLFvkx5JfroZjm4lI6ggiLpOdcM8iLxOTQe9imzlqtXcxOxUmTstjdQ2VUpe9VwFtO1GBsGU1HiMAg7DYSfFGvVASyuKlW6fY7x5AdShTUGZCKPdveB8VzhnTRcAy8WAVYcaX3A7RX5F04IbLq4rnlz_b7wYMPlkulXyLC/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>You ever wonder how you can easily teach calendar vocabulary in Spanish 1? Here are 3 tips to make it seamless and comprehensible!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Calendar Talk</span></h2><p>"Calendar Talk" sounds like it's for elementary school, but it's really just <b>incorporating the date into your routines when you start class.</b></p><p><i>Even in high school.</i></p><p>I give students a short and easy bell work assignment for the first few minutes of class while I take attendance and get my life together.</p><p>Then when I'm ready to actually start, I greet the class, and I have them trained to respond in chorus.</p><p>At the beginning of the year, I ask <i>"¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?"</i> and I have the whole class repeat. Then <b>I have everyone repeat the full date with the day of the week, number, month, and year.</b></p><p>Once students know it like the back of their hand, I call on an individual student to read the date.</p><p>By the time the Unit 1 Assessment rolls around, <b>students don't even have to review the date vocabulary because they know it so 👏 darn 👏 well 👏. </b></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Explicitly teach calendar vocabulary</span></h2><p>If Calendar Talk is the only exposure students have to days of the week and months of the year vocabulary, they'll never learn <i>julio</i>, <i>sábado</i>, or <i>domingo</i>. 😂</p><p>I recommend you <b>include a variety of listening, speaking, and writing activities. </b></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Plus a project!</span></h2><p>And definitely <b>have students make a year-long calendar!</b></p><p>You'll be shocked to know how engaged students will be - whether you have them make their calendars on paper or digitally. </p><p>I have them write out all the days of the week, starting with <i>lunes</i>, all the months, and they can include seasons and holidays. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">This is a 5-day (for 50-minute classes) unit that <b>teaches days of the week, months of the year, and seasons</b> so that students can state the date in Spanish, as well as what season each month falls into. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">There are <b>both paper and digital Google Slides versions. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">This unit culminates in a project in which students make a 12-month calendar in Spanish. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">It includes bell work and exit tickets for each day, powerpoints that teach the vocab, vocabulary sheets, classworks, a homework assignment, a rubric and checklist for the project, a Teacher's Guide, and answer keys. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Share your tips in the comments!</p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; min-height: 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgricVjh8gji41uoOzF38bWCNlwsHyq8ms6dMAXfqObtChnzR1dYtyG1Tl0Hy8HT2xAKO2WI_cGShEMf9b52vLfZh8DKRptR2sbSp5QFe-vuGDns00_jaUuTleQhA61SUTyXWcLhSfsY6uRYgO7lYpjSgVCAm_CfMBLIvizCBKP1JP4qAUGO0HLQrEp=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgricVjh8gji41uoOzF38bWCNlwsHyq8ms6dMAXfqObtChnzR1dYtyG1Tl0Hy8HT2xAKO2WI_cGShEMf9b52vLfZh8DKRptR2sbSp5QFe-vuGDns00_jaUuTleQhA61SUTyXWcLhSfsY6uRYgO7lYpjSgVCAm_CfMBLIvizCBKP1JP4qAUGO0HLQrEp=w640-h192" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-38044637132364804112022-04-20T16:23:00.011-04:002023-09-29T11:15:41.804-04:002 Time-Filler Projects to Keep Students Engaged Bell-to-Bell<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKZf-7lWvYY8ncEC7sbz6rFrfy0yqnwnrPcJCHVUF1XKKB23nRP6KF188OOiK0s7RQaMeoSl2OWdQ5BqgDonBsKBiqb_ThD8L_jY28ZSfmrqk9Q1t7XCFRQyrBkvl6S3wtPKY5FMk_7c9gWtWGudoMuVYmXFI9nboIIJbsu9QtnzwGXfnzB5I2zSf/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKZf-7lWvYY8ncEC7sbz6rFrfy0yqnwnrPcJCHVUF1XKKB23nRP6KF188OOiK0s7RQaMeoSl2OWdQ5BqgDonBsKBiqb_ThD8L_jY28ZSfmrqk9Q1t7XCFRQyrBkvl6S3wtPKY5FMk_7c9gWtWGudoMuVYmXFI9nboIIJbsu9QtnzwGXfnzB5I2zSf/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />You know when you plan that great lesson and it finishes 15 minutes before the bell rings... and you're like <i>omg now what??</i><p></p><p>And the students stare at you like <i>now what??</i></p><p>Yeah... it happens.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>I feel like "Time-Filler Projects" isn't the greatest name because teaching isn't just filling time. But. </p><p><i>Hear me out.</i></p><p><b>These are the activities you pull out of your back pocket when your lesson moves waaaaay faster than expected</b>, and you can pretend like this was the plan the whole time.</p><p>So they're "This is definitely what I planned to do for sure" projects. Or time-filler. </p><p><b>Here are two ideas that work with just about any grammar, vocabulary, or level. </b>Or honestly subject.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Two-page Foldable</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">How to make it:</span></h3><p></p>1. Give each student<b> 2 pieces of blank paper.</b><br /><br /><div>2. Have them <b>stack the pages</b> one over the other.<br /><br /></div><div>3. Have students <b>move the bottom paper 1" below</b> the top paper.<br /><br /></div><div>4. Fold the 2 papers so there are <b>4 layers.</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>5. Pass out colored pencils, crayons, or markers.</div><div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizS287ihNwW-p0bgZ04QxuOiFjOZDIC7bENE5xbd7Hr6jUmZfH3m-4GObwPX8t3k_l5bY6UihOOf6uPuiXPx2fI3JWf0hhno1HPZHFjd1kbY3R-qRvHYIKtJe8XfZGYe9tw7hebjpc4pvvd50elbP5xaKapjubRSMEShQ5V2p38vKLNG3-pYRoShkV/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="869" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizS287ihNwW-p0bgZ04QxuOiFjOZDIC7bENE5xbd7Hr6jUmZfH3m-4GObwPX8t3k_l5bY6UihOOf6uPuiXPx2fI3JWf0hhno1HPZHFjd1kbY3R-qRvHYIKtJe8XfZGYe9tw7hebjpc4pvvd50elbP5xaKapjubRSMEShQ5V2p38vKLNG3-pYRoShkV/w640-h232/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Materials you need:</span></b></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>2 pieces of blank white copy paper per student (plus extras for those who "mess up")</li><li>Colored pencils, crayons, or markers</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">Topics that work great:</span></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Adjectives & ser</span></h4><p>Have students write "yo soy" on the front with an adjective on the 3 lower flaps and a picture above it.</p><p>Alternatively, have students describe friends or family members.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Gustar & nouns or verbs</span></h4></div><div>Have students write "Me gusta" on the front with nouns or verbs on each flap that they like with a picture above it. </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Foods</span></h4><div>Have students write "yo como" <i>(or whatever verb you're working with - "yo prefiero", "yo quiero", "yo pido", etc) </i>on the front and the name of each meal on the 3 lower flaps. They can then write and/or draw foods they like for each meal above each meal.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Clothing</span></h4><div>Have students write "yo llevo" on the front and 3 seasons on the 3 lower flaps. They can then write and/or draw the clothing they wear in each season.</div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Thanksgiving</span></h4><p>Have students write "Estoy agradecido/a por" on the front and then 3 things they're thankful for on the flaps below with pictures above them.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Categories</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">How to make it:</span></h3><p>1. Give students 1 piece of blank paper.</p><p>2. Have students fold the paper in 4, 6, or 8 boxes (depending on the project).</p><p>3. Unfold the paper so they can see the dividing lines.</p><p>4. Pass out colored pencils, crayons, or markers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1odAKRo4GjeZG8BMHqETT2puYYLcbhJhu9CH4sMKZKQ6P9FfEzf5Y5-Q_JZPuexpdjedZtdD-IJb7T2VnVWxVGeFnLzzwkldqAzf3695fUjz3BeO8_RnQmyOTsKc8VtObDW1Gsyh27rW2ouBPBRxuobWNUyv2_IqPtcrABrMk7s5bbvB7EwdJfBC/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="869" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1odAKRo4GjeZG8BMHqETT2puYYLcbhJhu9CH4sMKZKQ6P9FfEzf5Y5-Q_JZPuexpdjedZtdD-IJb7T2VnVWxVGeFnLzzwkldqAzf3695fUjz3BeO8_RnQmyOTsKc8VtObDW1Gsyh27rW2ouBPBRxuobWNUyv2_IqPtcrABrMk7s5bbvB7EwdJfBC/w640-h232/Slide2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">Materials you need:</span></b></h3><ul><li>1 piece of blank white copy paper per student (plus extras for those who "mess up")</li><li>Colored pencils, crayons, or markers</li></ul><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">Topics that work great:</span></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Definite articles</span></h4><p>Have students fold their papers into 4 boxes.</p><p>Write and/or draw nouns that fall into each category.<br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Adjectives & ser</span></h4><p>Have students fold their papers into 4 boxes.</p><p>Write "yo" and 3 other people - one in each box.</p><p>Write and/or draw adjectives that describe each person.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Gustar & nouns or verbs</span></h4><p>Have students fold their paper into 4 boxes.</p><p>Write and/or draw what they and 3 other people like or like to do - one person per box.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Present tense verbs</span></h4><p>Have students fold their paper into 6 or 8 boxes, depending on how many subject pronouns you want to include.</p><div>Write a subject pronoun in each box with a correctly conjugated verb in a sentence. Include a picture.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Ir & places</span></h4><p>Have students fold their paper into 6 or 8 boxes, depending on how many subject pronouns you want to include.</p><div><div>Write a subject pronoun in each box with a correctly conjugated form of <i>ir</i> plus a place. Include a picture.</div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Weather</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;">Have students fold their paper into 4 or 6 boxes.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Write a weather expression in each box.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Write and/or draw what they like to do in each weather condition.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Adverbs of frequency</span></h4><p>Have students fold their paper into 4 boxes.</p><div>Write an adverb of frequency in each box with an activity they do with that frequency. </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #147dd9;">Clothing</span></h4><p>Have students fold their paper into 4 boxes.</p><div>Write a season in each box. Include a clothing item they wear for each season.</div><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Other great times to pull these projects out</span></h2><p>These activities are great when your amazing lesson ends earlier than you anticipated <i>(read: when used sparingly)</i>.</p><p><b>They're also great when:</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>There's an assembly and <b>half of your students will be absent</b>. No reason to teach something new that you'll have to entirely reteach tomorrow.</li><li>There's an early dismissal and <b>you're only seeing one of your three Spanish 1 sections</b>. No reason to get them on different schedules.</li><li>You have a 2-hour delay and <b>every class is absurdly short.</b> How are you going to teach a full lesson in 17 minutes??</li><li>When it's the day before a long weekend or break and <b>you don't want to start something new</b> because your students will just forget it all.</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRWayofJJl6dP_h4DiBTXB0huNCGBVSjTNqZXvwkK98bIaqDnMYJbMP_L_Z0cNHpv2oulB3-oWFcqbleXJucJDtjiwjZPWcwo_Ulq_bjTyjGyPZKKaFw2Xvf30PSqXM3Z_bXdeLrBHPEW0w-97TITT_UQBlkukH4q22qkLW_dLlTNR58eEvj4-zuCN/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRWayofJJl6dP_h4DiBTXB0huNCGBVSjTNqZXvwkK98bIaqDnMYJbMP_L_Z0cNHpv2oulB3-oWFcqbleXJucJDtjiwjZPWcwo_Ulq_bjTyjGyPZKKaFw2Xvf30PSqXM3Z_bXdeLrBHPEW0w-97TITT_UQBlkukH4q22qkLW_dLlTNR58eEvj4-zuCN/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>What activities do you keep in your back pocket when your lesson ends early? 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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-4285600843686633422022-03-24T12:08:00.006-04:002023-09-29T12:44:25.753-04:00How to teach Spanish Affirmative Tú Commands so students get it the first time<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vt8sVKeL1D2EtuShTDC3dKxPq6znF9uLHoJXqM27XNrVLd3i6ydDWfesAmW7VgrNirRoLXGAQiRErHDKMujJzgSQ7mEBnRvgGgPpRm03p1tcEMkmqCaXe0KinPZqtYy_4reO5visABX0Jg0Wb759ApPUMfNaQAeIdiHlF25V0-ZuC596o9naRAcp/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vt8sVKeL1D2EtuShTDC3dKxPq6znF9uLHoJXqM27XNrVLd3i6ydDWfesAmW7VgrNirRoLXGAQiRErHDKMujJzgSQ7mEBnRvgGgPpRm03p1tcEMkmqCaXe0KinPZqtYy_4reO5visABX0Jg0Wb759ApPUMfNaQAeIdiHlF25V0-ZuC596o9naRAcp/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I find the commands unit to be pretty fun to teach.<p></p><p>Students love being bossy! 😂</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Here are 3 tips to make sure your students get it the first time.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Break down the different types of verbs over a few days.</span></h2><p>I teach affirmative tú commands with regular verbs on Day 1, stem-changing verbs on Day 2, and irregular verbs on Day 3. </p><p>And <b>by Day 4 students are basically pros! </b></p><p>Affirmative tú commands are honestly so stupidly easy (<i>"put it in the él/ella form of the verb and say it with authority"</i> is what I tell my students 😂) that you can easily incorporate new vocabulary.</p><p>Chores vocabulary maybe?</p><p>Giving directions in a city? </p><p>What a new student should do in school?</p><p>Whatever strikes your fancy and makes the most sense in your curriculum. </p><p><div class="kartra_optin_container98f13708210194c475687be6106a3b84"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/7rmvbtJ8nulF"></script><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Include a variety of activities.</span></h2><p><b>Partner speaking activity</b> where your partner asks you what they should do today and you respond with the verb in the command form.</p><p><b>Whole-class speaking activity</b> where students get up out of their seats and ask what they should do and the partner responds in the affirmative tú command form.</p><p><b>Translate</b> English to Spanish.</p><p><b>Multiple choice</b> - choose the correct command form of the verb. </p><p><b>Answer questions</b> in the affirmative tú command form of the verb.</p><p><b>Read a paragraph</b> and write the command form of what Ana has to do today.</p><p>And whatever else you can think of! </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Give students scaffolded notes pages. </span></h2><p>I teach basically all vocabulary and grammar and anything else with powerpoint. </p><p>I give students a scaffolded notes page so they can easily take notes and refer to them later.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjnN4xUwTANnVb7nfP_WIloBbecXPoqF8dBSZQ-lmVe3Ywu2zW7ItfZO8XotGSMV5S_k9i2Z8IPMssZlvS2jShDpeMwQUoPMujEHoO33WwIOeV7l9Trv2V8qiwE3DsNuTy1IZ0txlSQQi0BT7Rv7czjkMkKHd-hF-PqOeDlnlC3lR6xOVsZiVdzE5/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjnN4xUwTANnVb7nfP_WIloBbecXPoqF8dBSZQ-lmVe3Ywu2zW7ItfZO8XotGSMV5S_k9i2Z8IPMssZlvS2jShDpeMwQUoPMujEHoO33WwIOeV7l9Trv2V8qiwE3DsNuTy1IZ0txlSQQi0BT7Rv7czjkMkKHd-hF-PqOeDlnlC3lR6xOVsZiVdzE5/w400-h400/Slide1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>By "scaffolded" I mean it matches the powerpoint exactly with blanks in it for the important parts that they have to write down.</p><p>So they can build those note-taking skills and also have something useful to refer to later in the period or when prepping for an exam! </p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhndi5H70MASj_8LifIjpxl48Ic_HE8dPKeo6akq9v5ohQuw2cSR-vyI6fj3K-N4H27QjoJZ31gCAVHr624RSfoy0pYMie4_xSYsTPgk5nak0PxRNWKoAFwYmlERrlCZn-TUeC5cAKh8GGPRK_vCX_eo1NnhQ5Mb1NFt2bQ_sNXJvV7nhm6V2nZ2G/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhndi5H70MASj_8LifIjpxl48Ic_HE8dPKeo6akq9v5ohQuw2cSR-vyI6fj3K-N4H27QjoJZ31gCAVHr624RSfoy0pYMie4_xSYsTPgk5nak0PxRNWKoAFwYmlERrlCZn-TUeC5cAKh8GGPRK_vCX_eo1NnhQ5Mb1NFt2bQ_sNXJvV7nhm6V2nZ2G/w640-h86/Slide2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>You can grab my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Affirmative-Tu-Commands-Bundle-1268132" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">Spanish Affirmative Tú Commands Bundle</span></b></a> in my TpT store and not have to worry about creating anything from scratch! </p><p>It includes 3 lessons, 1 homework, and 1 quiz with both paper and digital Google Slides versions. 📝💻</p><p>And it includes 40+ great reviews. 😄</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Affirmative-Tu-Commands-Bundle-1268132" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBTnwzNQGKjL2CaNBUB7kzDam31hKU7hgUp3aKAoYv6ca1xxmCVgEChb8Spf6if8qzGld5Uo4F9yL7DxJOwTsU-JGR6a7jcTW-dokZtOhI5fOWoDy8AYy2kgRBYu9vLK8jeP0w20eIrOHGNEyx7mSc9EpFzK2LAjYUpTdkmAZejHp3jW9wvxTuJ0ET/w400-h400/commands%20covers_Google%20copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Do you have any other tips for teaching Spanish affirmative tú commands? 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I like to include listening activities in my Spanish classes as much as I can.<br />
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It can be <b>seriously challenging</b> to find good listening activities for lower-level students, though.<br />
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Textbooks only have so many (good) listening comprehension activities, and it can be tricky to find recordings of Spanish speakers who speak <i>SLOWLY</i> and <i>CLEARLY</i>.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Here are three great websites that I've found and used in my Spanish 1 and 2 classes:</span></b></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">1. Quia</span></b></h3>
There are listening activities for Level 1 <a href="http://www.quia.com/quiz/2815366.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">HERE</span></b></a> and for Level 2 <a href="http://www.quia.com/quiz/2815413.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.<br />
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Click <b>"Start now>>"</b> and you will see <b>10 multiple-choice listening activities.</b><br />
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Each time you reload the page, it will give you new activities. <i>(Good news if you want more options, bad news if you want to bookmark the page and go back in the future for particular recordings.)</i><br />
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There are probably 30 listening activities that Quia randomly picks and loads on the webpage.<br />
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Quia provides multiple-choice questions for each listening activity, so you can use those or make your own!<br />
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I like to go through and listen to all the activities and record the ones I want to use in class. <div><br /></div><div>I used <a href="https://www.audacityteam.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">Audacity</span></b></a> to record them, which is a free program you can download on your Mac or PC. It's super easy to use, and then you can save the recordings to your computer and use them year after year.<div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e73478;">2. 123TeachMe</span></b></h3><div>
There are listening activities for Novice Low<b> <a href="http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/interpretive_listening_novice_low" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">HERE</span></a></b>.<br />
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There are <b>39 "groups"</b>, and each has two audio recordings. <br />
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I just go through and listen to a bunch of them and record the ones I want to use in class. <br />
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These recordings show up in the <b>same order </b>every time you load the page, so you can pull up the website in class and play the recording(s) you want. <br />
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The website includes a question for each recording, so you can use that one or create your own!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">3. University of Texas</span></h3></div><div><i>A reader sent me this link, so many thanks to Amanda B! </i></div><div><br /></div><div>The University of Texas at Austin has <a href="https://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;"><b>Spanish proficiency exercises</b></span></a>, organized by Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Superior. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can choose various topics for each level, and then there are several speakers from different Spanish-speaking countries, so your students can hear a variety of accents.</div><div><br /></div><div>You could easily pull this website up in class and play the recording you want, or record in advance whatever you want students to listen to.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YZ1spKEyK5a-4KAkjcSonuetTinmQjeXwf_mqaEghnQ-XZZl-nwIESUkx_BUoGSBz7jiULHawSJAvJFcUDychhRypCixk-OABKMYYheB6OetXbSlf71fMNeFAQIJw9kFknjWEKl58fY/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YZ1spKEyK5a-4KAkjcSonuetTinmQjeXwf_mqaEghnQ-XZZl-nwIESUkx_BUoGSBz7jiULHawSJAvJFcUDychhRypCixk-OABKMYYheB6OetXbSlf71fMNeFAQIJw9kFknjWEKl58fY/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I hope these ideas have helped you include more listening activities with native speakers in your lower-level classes! Where else do you get good listening activities? I'd love to hear other suggestions!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiPoX4brSjvMaQXIcJFFy7rGd8oTpz_l8vnTukzXYnh6AYUuN7dUSDfBAhNKhmgdSwnr8hUtDMLgL0-VWhDfPI7m1tVmeAOuKtuySwtq49E1IM7zepC7o2baUXbmDMuBSTGiLX5VJaLA/s1304/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiPoX4brSjvMaQXIcJFFy7rGd8oTpz_l8vnTukzXYnh6AYUuN7dUSDfBAhNKhmgdSwnr8hUtDMLgL0-VWhDfPI7m1tVmeAOuKtuySwtq49E1IM7zepC7o2baUXbmDMuBSTGiLX5VJaLA/w426-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br />
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>Miss Senoritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802349399847696071noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-54929537333460186072022-01-21T19:58:00.006-05:002023-09-29T11:14:58.851-04:001 Easy Tip to Prevent Cheating on Quizzes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNJGAEfuRERY00-7yohRWzZeIRgy2js9jiBOUeTg8byfwel5TPtRVVlvFfMCT4kWwLAazccy62Lftg7piBs25WTJ52F4A_0cR8TGHdycJ5b4pdx9HIgHWD6BbtbsDDqFmDvwjHO3ib2pzcLLMd95JXaPMuWJgx3Yk-rF5leisyeWCCWfd19taYkRRa=s869" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNJGAEfuRERY00-7yohRWzZeIRgy2js9jiBOUeTg8byfwel5TPtRVVlvFfMCT4kWwLAazccy62Lftg7piBs25WTJ52F4A_0cR8TGHdycJ5b4pdx9HIgHWD6BbtbsDDqFmDvwjHO3ib2pzcLLMd95JXaPMuWJgx3Yk-rF5leisyeWCCWfd19taYkRRa=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br />The whole point of a quiz is to assess students' knowledge. Not their eyesight of their neighbor's answers. 😒<p></p><p>If you have students with wandering eyes, I have a tip for you! </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><b>Make different versions of the quiz.</b></p><p>It does take a little longer to make 2 (or 4 😂) versions of the quiz with different answer keys, but it's totally worth it.</p><p>Because someone will inevitably copy their neighbor's answers and get a ZERO.</p><p>And that'll be the last time anyone ever does it. 😈😂</p><p><b>There are two ways you can (easily) make different versions of the same quiz.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">1. Change the order of the questions.</span></h3><p>Bump every number down 1 and make the last question #1.</p><p>The only thing you have to be cautious about is if #1 is B and #2 is B, then when you bump #1 to #2 and #2 to #3, version 2's answer key still has the same answer B as the first version. You will want to change that answer. </p><p><br /><br />
</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">2. Change the order of the answers.</span></h3><p>This is a viable option if your quiz is multiple choice. A becomes B, B becomes C, C becomes D, and D becomes A.</p><p>When I make a quiz, I keep track of what all the answers are so that I can make sure each version has a completely different answer key. </p><p>I hope this helps keep everyone's eyes on their own papers! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD0Nsqez1_JE8V9BzgX1L2NiVw65LvcOJ_I1GuTVLLrJI52Slh3WeqzquevaVg5A8_YU4C_Bxy5lHHncAXRlBEg_Uk2XyA0YsKf9jHbK12P67WAYtW57Wp7dDNmNM7bZK6sev-4w3VKQG4KgbaKO0Xacrsbbyv6e9yVsFiSf3vaIZNMWwdPDKp4iGw=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhD0Nsqez1_JE8V9BzgX1L2NiVw65LvcOJ_I1GuTVLLrJI52Slh3WeqzquevaVg5A8_YU4C_Bxy5lHHncAXRlBEg_Uk2XyA0YsKf9jHbK12P67WAYtW57Wp7dDNmNM7bZK6sev-4w3VKQG4KgbaKO0Xacrsbbyv6e9yVsFiSf3vaIZNMWwdPDKp4iGw=w640-h192" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-12613003510251218482022-01-02T11:40:00.015-05:002023-09-29T11:53:48.436-04:00Listo y Llamativo: a Spanish 1 and 2 Curriculum to Get your Students Speaking Spanish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSa2GBjHDKqq1-Z1gnFKgf5KAsqdNjgnyUjd31w5KGwVGsnlFK53CgN3L5Adwca_04Nm-aXt2_PK58q1BB-A17u_QZRcDwyW9JUj78AnZYN9LLCDNuUcXfNvi8rN-uOnRXEl8st34GMdrbk6qRtqnkMWesELoxYgS_hP6IOQH2GKDux2lLa6bPcCcX/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSa2GBjHDKqq1-Z1gnFKgf5KAsqdNjgnyUjd31w5KGwVGsnlFK53CgN3L5Adwca_04Nm-aXt2_PK58q1BB-A17u_QZRcDwyW9JUj78AnZYN9LLCDNuUcXfNvi8rN-uOnRXEl8st34GMdrbk6qRtqnkMWesELoxYgS_hP6IOQH2GKDux2lLa6bPcCcX/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">My first year of teaching I lived with my parents. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It was great because I worked 12 hours days and that meant dinner was hot and ready for me when I got home at 8pm.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">But also... I was working 12 hours days and living with my parents.</span></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was about as fun as a wet sock.</span></em></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://giphy.com/embed/T1WqKkLY753dZghbu6" width="480"></iframe></span></span></p><p><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/theoffice-T1WqKkLY753dZghbu6">via GIPHY</a></span></span></p><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><p></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And you know what I did on weekends?</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I worked.</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought every paper students touched needed a grade and I didn't have any resources handed down to me.</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The school district was basically like <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">"you're the only Spanish teacher in the building. Here's a list of vocab and grammar to teach and the order to teach it in. The rest is up to you and you have no one to collaborate with inside this building. Good luck."</span></em></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.4px;">It's unclear how I lasted the entire year.</span></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But my second year was easier because all I had to do was redo the terrible lessons (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">only like half of them...</span></em>🙃) and then I could reuse the good resources!</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My workload was down to like 11 hours a day. 😂</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're nodding along to this story because you've been there - those days can be over.</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you teach Spanish 1 or 2, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">I have a membership that will make your life incredibly easy.</span></span></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm talking like <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">teach it, grade it, and go home to drink wine on your couch</span></em> easy.</span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://giphy.com/embed/1r7Qnl3c66wK5IYwc9" width="480"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/thebachelor-the-bachelor-winter-games-1r7Qnl3c66wK5IYwc9">via GIPHY</a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You'll get 18 days' worth of resources every single month for each level.</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">18 days times 10 months = 180 days.</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's 👏 the 👏 entire 👏school 👏year. 👏</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p hover" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything done for you, and editable so you can tweak it if you want to. 🙌</span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p class="eb_p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are also a few extra options and supplemental activities. 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jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-57907581056984313302021-12-03T13:10:00.137-05:002023-09-29T09:09:44.277-04:00Insanely Easy Speaking Activities for Spanish Class: Manipulatives<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0gjxlZmlhf6yAgtLkaJvYzGvunpMYsLVdutt7QB2qJJ9COvUGMbD7UBKPtktULoP-m2TGSZuBK7_jzvEmho2lcGNgm3sWqBYXd3ZkJAS7Jnj3C_zTyku0XNHvYhIF6gagQQB8bb9tI0ChqmZYM78cWPVOJOPat6Aeh_kFFdGPVkaLoq8yLFO99zEw=s576" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0gjxlZmlhf6yAgtLkaJvYzGvunpMYsLVdutt7QB2qJJ9COvUGMbD7UBKPtktULoP-m2TGSZuBK7_jzvEmho2lcGNgm3sWqBYXd3ZkJAS7Jnj3C_zTyku0XNHvYhIF6gagQQB8bb9tI0ChqmZYM78cWPVOJOPat6Aeh_kFFdGPVkaLoq8yLFO99zEw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br />My favorite speaking activity is an <b><a href="http://misssenoritatpt.blogspot.com/2019/10/insanely-easy-speaking-activities-for.html"><span style="color: #14ae94;">A/B partner activity</span></a></b>, but sometimes it's great to switch things up and give students actual pieces of paper <strike>that they will litter all over your floor</strike>. <p></p><p>This type of speaking activity definitely requires more prep, but it can be worth it in the long run.</p><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How it works:</span></h2><p><b>Students work in partners</b> and take turns asking each other whatever question(s) you taught them that day (or unit) and prompting their partner's answers with <b>a picture that they pull from an envelope or baggie.</b></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">How to prep this activity:</span></h2><p>It's easier IMO if students have <b>one question they're asking their partner</b>, rather than having to think about which of several questions to ask.</p><p><b>Decide what question students will be asking.</b> For this example, I'm going to use <i>"¿qué necesitas?"</i> with school supplies vocabulary. </p><p><i>This particular activity would be ideal for Spanish 1, but this format of speaking activity could be used for any level.</i></p><p>Make sure you have <b>clipart images for each vocabulary word</b> students will be practicing.</p><p>If you have about 6-8 images, then make each student a baggie of clipart. If you have more images, then the partner pairs can share (<i>read: less work for you</i>). </p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">How to create your clipart images in Word:</span></h3><p>Open up a blank Word doc and <b>insert a table with columns that are at least 2"x2"</b>. </p><p><i>You want the images to be large enough to easily pick up <strike>from the floor</strike> and handle.</i></p><p>Insert <b>one clipart image into each box</b> and size it so it's a little smaller than the box. </p><p><i>Give yourself some grace (read: margins) for when you have to cut the images out. You'll be going for speed.</i></p><p>Copy and paste enough clipart tables to fill the page (don't waste paper!) and print.</p><p><br /></p><h3><span style="color: #e73478;">Now cut your images out:</span></h3><p>If you have a paper cutter, now's the time to take that baby out. If not, grab your scissors.</p><p><b>Cut the images out</b> and shove each set into a ziploc bag or envelope. </p><p><b>Pro tip</b>: Print the clipart on several different colors of paper so it's easier to figure out which baggie is missing the <i>carpeta</i> picture when you find it on your floor after first period.</p><p><br /></p><h3><span style="color: #e73478;">Once you're in class:</span></h3><p>Explain to students that they will take turns asking <i>"¿qué necesitas?"</i> and pulling one picture from the baggie to show their partner. </p><p>That person will respond <i>"yo necesito ___" </i>and the vocabulary word for the clipart image. </p><p>Then just sit back and watch students speak Spanish without hardly realizing it.</p><p><br />
</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Topics this activity works well with:</span></h2><p>Just about anything with one question and a variety of different vocabulary answers.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>¿Qué te gusta hacer? + activities vocab</li><li>¿Qué te gusta? + nouns vocab</li><li>¿Qué tiempo hace? + weather vocab</li><li>¿Cómo eres? + adjectives vocab</li><ul><li>¿Cómo eras? + imperfect adjectives vocab</li></ul><li>¿Qué haces? + activities vocab</li><ul><li>¿Qué hiciste? + preterite activities vocab</li><li>¿Qué harás? + future activities vocab</li></ul><li>¿Adónde vas? + places vocab</li><li>¿Qué clase tienes? + school subjects vocab</li><li>¿Qué comes? + food vocab</li><li>¿Qué haces? + reflexive verbs vocab</li><li>¿Qué llevas? + clothing vocab</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">The pros:</span></b></h2><p>This gives students more autonomy and control by being able to select pictures.</p><p>It can be more engaging to have manipulatives.</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">The cons:</span></b></h2><p>Little. pieces. of. paper. all. over. your. floor.</p><p>You have to cut out like 8539 sets of clipart. I mean sure, you can reuse the clipart baggies all day, but they won't last year to year. <i>It will feel like 8539 sets when you're cutting them out.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAOuZ2wa-HYwspqyImdZWrUywM-oVv4X24-vA6zJp5XUb9B09RrzyemeRCg2vL93QriM5boiWPdCI-uT4FKx9TTZJW75Jnj7tElzjh4P0ixPjvz4q-A80HGHdrYrBWS9DYl_ikhsiHqfrKm9DTPf1X8dsycAOI3qVxJWXwXlkNkPRQ3vvLcUmv3Woh=s869" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAOuZ2wa-HYwspqyImdZWrUywM-oVv4X24-vA6zJp5XUb9B09RrzyemeRCg2vL93QriM5boiWPdCI-uT4FKx9TTZJW75Jnj7tElzjh4P0ixPjvz4q-A80HGHdrYrBWS9DYl_ikhsiHqfrKm9DTPf1X8dsycAOI3qVxJWXwXlkNkPRQ3vvLcUmv3Woh=w400-h54" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Have you used an activity like this in your classroom? How did it go? Share in the comments below!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlBd-sxR03-MeWgvd6WKFR6RYLtiVQ8oNG8RzyMPfj8Imt7MIwFPofeP93g6Dj5PcHOwhSlJ3co-__frp9BDh_aPs0NLrWZd24vRPsjuMzQORuj4uFMeBEU3NzryAnChf80fDZAl30jRWaJiF4YETzWeQ4Q1x27GGB5pLdUSiehuQZQfOQF9FLmxVw=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlBd-sxR03-MeWgvd6WKFR6RYLtiVQ8oNG8RzyMPfj8Imt7MIwFPofeP93g6Dj5PcHOwhSlJ3co-__frp9BDh_aPs0NLrWZd24vRPsjuMzQORuj4uFMeBEU3NzryAnChf80fDZAl30jRWaJiF4YETzWeQ4Q1x27GGB5pLdUSiehuQZQfOQF9FLmxVw=w640-h192" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>jesslh313http://www.blogger.com/profile/12763485913901919208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-58096789892105138222021-11-04T14:00:00.019-04:002023-09-29T11:14:32.891-04:003 Tips to Make 1:1 Speaking Assessments EASY {with 30+ students}<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbT7Q-ny1e8Hvb2UiYLvsPTFBPpjcG-YIBDaA9dE9dGiuceoOAU9c9D3O16AkeCn24TQyhWQj02zmhdAFta687sbhgqEE9qi45mwsgjMAit_3tgpAFnCv8v5ptqYKKo_FscAkFF6Ae-zuqLsIXfZ0oKE914qi8c3zvxUxNQK_Y0vJrF9aw0PqAQ57k=s869" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbT7Q-ny1e8Hvb2UiYLvsPTFBPpjcG-YIBDaA9dE9dGiuceoOAU9c9D3O16AkeCn24TQyhWQj02zmhdAFta687sbhgqEE9qi45mwsgjMAit_3tgpAFnCv8v5ptqYKKo_FscAkFF6Ae-zuqLsIXfZ0oKE914qi8c3zvxUxNQK_Y0vJrF9aw0PqAQ57k=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Scenario: </b>It's the end of Unit 1 in Spanish 1 and your school district requires you to assess each kid's speaking skills. <p></p><p>Individually. </p><p>At the end of each and every unit. </p><p><i>Oh and you have 35 kids in each of 6 classes.</i></p><p><b>It's the stuff nightmares are made of.</b></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Because while you're talking individually to each and every student - <i>do you know what those other 34 kids are doing because you're not staring them down, so they're basically unsupervised? </i></p><p><i>*shudder* I don't even want to think about it.</i></p><p>But it doesn't have to be the most annoying thing you've ever done. </p><p><b>Here are 3 tips to make it easy and nightmare-free.</b></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">1. Make sure everyone knows when their turn is.</span></h2><p>If your students sit in rows, then the kid at the front of the row closest to the door goes first. Then the kid behind him. And when that row is done, the next row starts.</p><p>Or <b>snake through the classroom in whatever way makes the most sense for however your desks are arranged.</b></p><p>The only way you're going to get through every kid in 1-2 class periods is if no one interrupts and no one has any questions.</p><p><b>Students will also have less anxiety about the assessment if they know exactly when their turn will come.</b></p><p>This will guarantee they have enough time to prepare since they can watch their turn come closer and closer.</p><p><br /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;"></span></h2><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">2. Give students the easiest work they've ever seen.</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;">You do not want anyone to interrupt you for any reason because every second you're not giving an assessment means the whole thing takes longer.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Give your students work they could not possibly have any questions about.</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">If this means you're giving them work in English to learn about a Spanish-speaking country, do that. If they are thoroughly entertained and engaged with a word search for this unit's vocab, cool. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Whatever keeps them occupied<i> (and doesn't feel like waste-of-time busy work)</i> while you speak individually with their classmates. </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">3. Get another teacher to come in and stare kids down.</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;">Most classes will understand how this works - they work quietly while their classmates take an assessment and they wait for their turn.</p><p style="text-align: left;">But sometimes you have a class that has an extreme number of ants in their pants and/or just <i>cannot</i> handle this task.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>If you have a class that cannot sit quietly without being stared down every single second,</b> then beg, barter, and plead with a colleague to help you out.</p><p style="text-align: left;">You just need someone to stand in the doorway or at the back of the room so you can get through the speaking assessments. They can even bring papers to grade. </p><p style="text-align: left;">You just need those extra eyeballs.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It'll make everything <i>soooooo much easier.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">Bonus Tip</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Require students to stay after school to do their speaking assessment. </b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Schedule them in 5-minute increments over the course of a week or so.</p><p style="text-align: left;">This certainly won't work for every school, but it's super easy if you can do it this way.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIHrdEskKP1Wgc-2nispTbmF2Ai1YYcq0PhpVSSWBDPleLW3AMR9-g76CVgS6ES2QQ86gPJH8NFHxJeILQsULALPBuLaejK6G-TAdz2crSHcf-aYa6fZ46b4-useEsT0CGIc3ZG1ThOpXSu2Cbo3DREGk907CIoAtkxKvA3dmMJ13mHrsCEt8x4HJX=s869" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIHrdEskKP1Wgc-2nispTbmF2Ai1YYcq0PhpVSSWBDPleLW3AMR9-g76CVgS6ES2QQ86gPJH8NFHxJeILQsULALPBuLaejK6G-TAdz2crSHcf-aYa6fZ46b4-useEsT0CGIc3ZG1ThOpXSu2Cbo3DREGk907CIoAtkxKvA3dmMJ13mHrsCEt8x4HJX=w400-h54" width="400" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Do you have any suggestions for successfully administering these types of speaking assessments? </p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Besides "make students do it in partners or small groups and it's a billion times easier". </i>😂</p><p style="text-align: left;">Share in the comments below!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh37gC8RHWXkbycz64WPd-nxNQmtN395nETUpttmWapej37ijErXSkVRTymwLtHriE8lPzz84CB2EPbRHDqwgnn8lRfcxvqOpMy1bYFYyqBWC0N5d0UjhwF6lLshSOtCLJJzWhgpZGGh3DqIQGanl_D0_JhOqI7zhdlaAHq7gmZS2dWISAiHmRWvTP=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh37gC8RHWXkbycz64WPd-nxNQmtN395nETUpttmWapej37ijErXSkVRTymwLtHriE8lPzz84CB2EPbRHDqwgnn8lRfcxvqOpMy1bYFYyqBWC0N5d0UjhwF6lLshSOtCLJJzWhgpZGGh3DqIQGanl_D0_JhOqI7zhdlaAHq7gmZS2dWISAiHmRWvTP=w640-h192" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><div class="kartra_optin_containera1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/FMnZTuEOSirK"></script></div>
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<b>You simply can't grade every piece of paper that students touch.</b><br />
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It's too many papers and students don't need 857 grades at the end of each marking period.<br />
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Besides that, <i>your friends and family will miss you</i> if you try to grade ALL THE PAPERS.<br />
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Here are 5 tips for staying on top of grading (and having a life!):<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">1. Don't be afraid to throw papers out.</span></h2>
I used to tell my high school students that the Trash Monster was very hungry and I had to feed it their work in order to save myself.<br />
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If you collect student work, but have no intention to grade it, just throw it out.<br />
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<b>They'll forget about it.</b><br />
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If they don't forget about it and they ask you where that precious classwork went that they did last Tuesday - tell them you had to feed the Trash Monster.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">2. Plan so that your big grading days are staggered whenever possible.</span></h2>
If 60 of your Spanish 1 kids are turning in a big project on Tuesday, then don't plan on your Spanish 2 students turning anything big in until at least Thursday.<br />
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<b>Don't inundate yourself with work to grade if you can avoid it.</b><br />
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If you can stagger when different periods start the same project, which therefore staggers the due date - even better!<div><br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">3. Plan what is worth grading and what isn't. Be forgetful about what isn't.</span></h2>
Plan to collect a certain number of classwork assignments, homeworks, quizzes (and whatever other categories you have in your gradebook) on a weekly basis.<br />
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<b>Prioritize</b> ahead of time what those assignments will be.<br />
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<b>What assignments best demonstrate students' understanding? </b><br />
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Or (let's be real) <b>what assignments will take the least amount of time for you to grade?</b><br />
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<i>Be forgetful about everything else.</i><br />
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If you know you're going to grade Monday's and Wednesday's classwork assignments and you only need 2 classworks a week in your gradebook, then you either don't need to collect Thursday's classwork (or Tuesday's or Friday's) because you "forgot", or you can throw it out as soon as students leave your classroom.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">4. Give kids a check plus, check, or check minus.</span></h2>
This maintains the <i>illusion</i> of grading their work, but those grades never get entered into the gradebook.<br />
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It costs you almost no time to make check marks on papers so kids think their Spanish Menu is a valuable piece of work, but you can go to happy hour instead of staying late after the last bell rings.<br />
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<b>You can even give kids check marks on their work in the middle of class.</b><br />
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They won't even realize these "grades" aren't going into the gradebook. 😈<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8c0969;">5. Set a designated grading time for a specific amount of time and stick to it.</span></h2>
<b>Pick a day</b> (your planning period every day? Sundays at 2pm?).<br />
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<b>Pick a specific amount of time</b> (45 minutes 4 days/week? 2 hours once/week?).<br />
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Sit down and <b>grade like your life depends on it.</b><br />
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Get 👏 It 👏 Done 👏<br />
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<b>Be strict with yourself. </b>Stick to your schedule.<br />
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Don't check your email during Grading Time. <b>Put your phone on Do Not Disturb.</b><br />
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<i>Grading time is for grading only!</i><br />
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I wrote my Master's thesis while teaching full time and my thesis took up every waking second that I wasn't at school. I was out the door by 3pm whether or not the papers were graded because I had a freaking thesis to write. <i>#priorities</i><br />
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That situation forced me to focus exclusively on grading during my planning period, rather than wander down the hall to chat with my teacher friends who were also "off" that period.<br />
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<b>I never ever took work home and my students still had grades in a timely manner.</b><br />
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<br />Bell ringers will get your students seated and working from the moment the late bell rings.<br />
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Seated, <strike>silent</strike>, and on-task. <div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>This activity does not actually include the promise of silence, but you can dream.</i><br />
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What are bell ringers?</span></h2>
I've heard them called a lot of different names, and I've even called them different names myself - bell work, bell ringers, warm-ups, do nows, drills.<br />
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Justin from SpanishPlans calls them <i><a href="https://spanishplans.org/2015/10/02/bell-work-in-spanish-class/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">entradas</span></b></a></i>, Elisabeth from Spanish Mama calls them <i><a href="https://spanishmama.com/bellringer-choice-boards-for-spanish/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;"><b>Para Empezar</b></span></a></i>, Martina Bex from the Comprehensible Classroom calls them <i><a href="https://martinabex.com/2011/11/18/la-campanada/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">la campanada</span></b></a></i>.<br />
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There are probably 8 other names that I haven't used or heard of.<br /></i>
<br />Basically, bell ringers are a short activity that is projected to the screen or otherwise available for students to <span style="background-color: white;">start working on as soo</span>n as they enter the class. </div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>They should be:</b><br />
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- <span style="background-color: white;">4 to 6 q</span>uestions<br />
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- something students can (not should, but CAN) do without help - <i>it should be suuuuuuuuuuper easy</i><br />
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- either a review of yesterday's lesson or a prep of some sort for today's lesson<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Ideal bell work formats are:</span></b></h2>
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- fill in the blank<br />
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- answer questions (in complete sentences!)<br />
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- match pictures of vocab words with their Spanish name<br />
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- match questions with their answers<br />
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- unscramble words so they are in the correct order in a sentence<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Need some more bell work ideas?</span></b></h2>
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Allison from Mis Clases Locas has a different activity for each day of the week for her <a href="http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2014/07/para-empezar.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">bell work</span></b></a> - including música miércoles and baile viernes.<br />
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Elisabeth from Spanish Mama posted another <a href="http://www.secondaryspanishspace.com/2017/09/bellringers-stress-free-ideas-for-world.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #14ae94;">dozen ideas</span></b></a> of great bell work activities on Secondary Spanish Space.<br />
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You can now do a different type of activity every day for like 3 weeks. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🙃</span><div><br />
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Setting Bell Work Routines</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">Picking up the Bell Work Sheet:</span></h3>
I used to have <b>a bin at the front of the room by the door</b> where students could pick up a sheet for a week's worth of Do Nows every Monday as they entered class.<br />
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Sometimes kids would take an entire stack and leave none for the rest of the class, like the school was gonna run out of paper and <i>they'd be darned if they didn't have a Do Now sheet for Spanish class</i>.<br />
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My solution was to take the entire stack and pass out Do Now sheets to kids as they entered class. </div><div><br /></div><div>This could be <span style="background-color: white;">a student's job i</span>f you find that you have a Do Now hoarding problem in your classroom as well.<br />
<br /><b>You can snag my blank bell work sheets </b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-Bell-Ringer-sheets-and-Exit-Tickets-259504" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #14ae94;">here</span></a><b> </b>(they're free!).<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e73478;">Settling down:</span></h3><b>
Having students work quietly and independently on bell wo<span style="background-color: white;">rk, n</span>ot only gets them back to remembering what in the world they did in Spanish class yesterday, but also gives you time to take attendance and do any other brief housekeeping tasks.</b><br />
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Set a timer for 3 or 4 minutes after the late bell rings and get your attendance done.<br />
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Stretch.<br />
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Take a sip of water.<br />
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Stroll around class and see how kids are doing.<br />
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Relax for 5 seconds because you deserve it.<br />
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When the timer goes off, review the Do Now, have everyone put it away, and start on your lesson.<br />
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Collect the whole sheet of Do Nows on Fridays. It's a pretty easy system.<br />
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To Grade or Not to Grade Bell work?</span></h2>
It's your classroom and <strike>you're the dictator</strike> you make the rules, so you can do whatever you want. I strongly advise <b>maintaining the appearance that bell work is graded</b> or kids won't take it seriously and won't do it.<br />
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Your dream of kids being seated and working when the late bell rings will be destroyed. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Students will casually stroll around the classroom like they don't have a care in the world.<br /></i>
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In order to maintain the appearance of bell work being graded, I suggest you start out the school year by... well... grading it. <br />
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Religiously.<br />
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Every week.<br />
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For at least 3 or 4 weeks.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Sorry.</i><br />
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And after that <b>grade it once in a while for completion</b> and feed it to the trash monster all the other weeks.<br />
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<div class="kartra_optin_container6c8349cc7260ae62e3b1396831a8398f"></div><script src="https://app.kartra.com/optin/4lm2oZsbWVrK"></script>Miss Senoritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802349399847696071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386580605286969161.post-78584756038752373702021-08-23T07:00:00.004-04:002023-09-29T11:56:11.576-04:003 Reasons You Should Let Students Choose Their Own Seats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VU40SzA6o2IsDtCAjgS74sU28MLtJ-5hakWwfw5qkBGaSdrPyvCh_Z_z9E1_g_JP1x1a8ETiljrCCkY_BbuEVsrJniB-lvxuNt8FsldwM7csQ2393Vzy_7QZ6jldp5deLyp850kkqRo/s869/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="869" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VU40SzA6o2IsDtCAjgS74sU28MLtJ-5hakWwfw5qkBGaSdrPyvCh_Z_z9E1_g_JP1x1a8ETiljrCCkY_BbuEVsrJniB-lvxuNt8FsldwM7csQ2393Vzy_7QZ6jldp5deLyp850kkqRo/w640-h640/Slide1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>My 7th grade Social Studies teacher let us choose our seats. <div><br /></div><div><i>On the very first day of school! </i></div><div><br /></div><div>It was something I had never been allowed to do before and it was incredibly exciting. We could all sit with our friends! </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>And then two weeks later, after she figured out who everyone was friends with, she assigned our seats and no one sat near any of their friends for the rest of the entire year. </div><div><br /></div><div>She was a smart lady. Much smarter than any of us because we did NOT see that coming. 😂</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQbMw0suJZFtUckpjTnYawuhzkTvNWlFnJWviZHsFF70joJxPT9okik6cAduqL6psb2kXt77A3NmjzlwVZb7jmL-wiaGmREmVvAOzRr0WTfHjs6h3O0gHaNOX1WP9Bw-6puSwriqVU34/s869/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="869" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQbMw0suJZFtUckpjTnYawuhzkTvNWlFnJWviZHsFF70joJxPT9okik6cAduqL6psb2kXt77A3NmjzlwVZb7jmL-wiaGmREmVvAOzRr0WTfHjs6h3O0gHaNOX1WP9Bw-6puSwriqVU34/w400-h54/Slide2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br />
I also let students choose their seats, and it has gone really well for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>And unlike my brilliant 7th grade Social Studies teacher, I don't give students assigned seats later in the year. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>I don't ever assign their seats. </b></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Don't tell any of my previous Department Chairs or Principals. </i>😂<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
I have several reasons for this... Let me explain. Maybe this system will work for you too!<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Reason #1: It's easier.</span></b></h2>
When I used to assign seats, there were always those students who would challenge my seating choices. Sometimes openly, but usually passively. </div><div><br /></div><div>They would walk into the classroom and sit in the seat three seats over. </div><div><br /></div><div>Or across the room. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Or anywhere but the seat I had their name in on my seating chart. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>They would just sit down like they thought I wouldn't notice. And I would say <i>"Monica, can you move to your seat please?"</i> and Monica would argue. </div><div><br /></div><div>She would list all her infinite reasons why her assigned seat was not nearly as good as the seat she was currently in. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"But I won't talk in this seat."</i> </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"But I can focus better in this seat."</i> </div><div><br /></div><div>And while all her reasons may or may not have been legitimate, she knew all the right things a teacher wanted to hear. </div><div><br /></div><div>And precious class minutes were lost to Monica's objections about seating. And then Victor's objections about seating. And Asia's. And twelve other students'. <br />
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I got tired of fighting about it. </b> I got tired of losing precious class time over something petty.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Reason #2: I will move you.</span></b></h2><b>
Giving up control of the seating chart is not giving up control of the classroom. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Reason #2 goes hand-in-hand with Reason #1 and both must exist in the classroom in order to make students choosing their seats work. </div><div><br /></div><div>When Monica sits in a seat of her choosing, and that seat happens to be next to her best friend, I tell Monica that <b>she will sit in a seat of my choosing if she cannot pay attention</b> to the lesson and complete her work. </div><div><br /></div><div>That seat is always right up front. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know why students always hate to sit in the front row. <i>I must have terrible breath. </i>🙃😂<br />
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If it is the beginning of the school year and expectations are still being established, I tell Monica, and really the whole class, that if she cannot pay attention in class and complete her work, then she will move up front (or to another seat of my choosing that I point out in that moment). </div><div><br /></div><div>I say it calmly, evenly, and like I really mean it. And I do. <br />
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And then I move on. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>But the instant Monica's behavior is disruptive or off-task, all I have to do is point to the seat I have chosen for her and she must get up and move to her new seat that she will sit in until she proves she knows how to act in my classroom.</b><br />
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If it is the middle or end of the school year and expectations have already been established, then Monica has <strike>probably</strike> definitely already seen me move students who cannot handle sitting in the seat of their choice. </div><div><br /></div><div>I will remind her quietly that she is to pay attention and complete her work, and I point out the seat she will sit in if she cannot meet these expectations.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #8c0969;">Reason #3: It works for me.</span></b></h2>
It really does. </div><div><br /></div><div>And it could work for you! 😄</div><div><br /></div><div>If students know that they will absolutely lose the privilege of sitting where they want (99% of the time it's next to their friends), they will be more mindful about their behavior. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>They don't want to be That Idiot that has to sit up front when everyone else gets to sit wherever they please.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>They don't want to lose the privilege that everyone else has and if they know for sure that you are completely serious and will absolutely move them the minute they are disruptive, they will avoid losing this privilege. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is especially effective with the class clowns.<br />
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I don't have to fight with students about where they sit so I am happy. </b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Students get to sit where they want, so they are happy. </b> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Students have to behave themselves to keep the privilege of choosing their seating, so I am even happier. </b><i> #winning<br /></i>
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I should note I have had success with students choosing their own seats in 7th grade classes through seniors. It may or may not be successful in an elementary classroom.</i><br />
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