Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input

I found the song "Canción de las Brujas" on YouTube. It has several words that my Spanish 1 students know so I made a cloze acti...

Before I began the "story asking" phase for the lesson on 10/26, I gave each student a plain sheet of paper. They folded it hot d...

Focus Words: espera, levanta, curioso, debajo de (del) Class story 10/25/11 Hay un pájaro que vive en el centro comercial. Su n...

What to do when there's only a few minutes left in class? We had about 10 minutes remaining in class and I had hoped to begin another mi...

Ana no entiende las ciencias Sra. Hitz story: 10/19/11 Hay una chica que se llama Ana. Ana es alta, t...

The focus words for yesterday and a few new ones for today were: está preocupado , estudia , entiende , hace preguntas , and se esconde. I...

I use Cuéntame Más® with my Spanish 1 class. The students have read all of the stories in Chapter 1 so today they worked with a partner to ...

For students that want to review the days of the week in Spanish, check the two websites below for practice. The first website is the best ...

story to read in class 10/10/11 la oveja—the sheep el pastor—the shepherd cuida—takes c...

On Friday, the Spanish 1 students started a story about a guy named Diego whose job was to take care of three little green elephants. He wa...

El chico perezoso (story script from Martina Bex’s website ) (10/5/11) Hay un chico que se llama Pepino. Pepino trabaj...

Today I tried something different in presenting the stories. I wanted the students to fully concentrate on listening to the story. They di...