Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input

VERBA! Have you heard of VERBA ?  It is a fun card game created by Kevin Ballestrini, (@kballestrini on Twitter) originally in Latin, bu...

I almost made it through the 2014-15 school year without losing my voice...but when I awoke this morning and started to talk, I knew my luck...

I have read La Guerra Sucia , a novel written by Nathaniel Kirby , several times with my students.  Thanks to several teachers blogging abo...

I recently stumbled across a website named Pictotraductor . On the Pictotraductor website, you can type in a sentence in Spanish and it w...

This morning I was reading tweets from #langchat and clicked on a link that took me to Señor Fernie's blog .  He is a kindergarten t...

Springtime is the time of the year when we receive the list of students' course selections. After receiving them I reach into my files...

My all-time favorite Spanish author is hands down, without a doubt, Julio Cortázar. Thanks to Carrie Toth for creating 3 embedded readings f...

If you are a fan of the TV show "Survivor", then you are familiar with the memory type game that the contestants play with cubes...

Student sketches for Esperanza novel My Spanish 4 students recently completed reading Esperanza by Carol Gaab , TPRS Publishing, Inc . ...

Have you seen the website named MonoFace ? It's a website that has photos of different people with different expressions.  By clicking...

As World Language teachers, part of our responsibility is to educate others about the benefits of learning a second language.  I have a Pi...

Storytelling doesn't always have to encompass the full story. In fact, today in class, the students and I created a lot of stories, ...