This post could also be called "How to teach the Spanish Alphabet so good that you have to ban students from singing it" .  Or "For heaven's sake - it's March, please stop singing that song" . For the record, I've only had to ban one class from continuing to sing the alphabet song well into March.  That class was full of overly enthusiastic 7th-grade girls. 🙃 ...

It's so important to get your Spanish students actually speaking the language.   I like to tell my Spanish 1 students within the first week of school that no one ever says "Wow, you write Spanish really well."  They say "Wow, you speak Spanish really well."  ...

I'm pretty sure when I was learning Spanish in high school, we learned about culture in Spanish-speaking countries by reading blurbs in the textbook. Honestly, it's shocking we learned anything about how people live in Spanish-speaking countries. The internet is an amazing tool for teaching culture and truly letting students learn how people live in other countries. I love to use webquests to teach culture.  Here's how I create them!...

If you're looking for a great way to wrap up Spanish 1 and let students show off all they've learned this year - have I got a great idea for you! Meet the Spanish 1 Final Project . Students create a booklet about themselves and cover just about every topic they've learned throughout the year....

  I love a review game. I have blogged about bingo (lotería), dominoes , and charades . Let's talk about Memory....

Think about those tricky lessons you teach where the words change or move. Or where the words change AND move like with direct, indirect, and double object pronouns. I make a powerpoint that teaches my students what words change, what they change to, and where those pronouns move to....

I'm gonna go ahead and say the preterite vs imperfect is the worst part of Spanish 2. It's probably the hardest thing students have faced up to that point. And then they get to Spanish 3 and meet the nightmare known as the subjunctive. 😂 I have a few suggestions to make teaching preterite vs imperfect palatable and not pure horror....