MS Spanish Guide

● Introduce vocabulary with captions using a variety of visuals and a graphic organizer. ● Group/partner students to allow opportunity for them to speak in Spanish. ● Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters with word banks (eg. Hello. How do you prepare for the day? What is your day like?). ● Check for understanding in different ways (eg. TPR, whiteboards, hand signals or gestures). ● For listening activities provide Cloze activity sheets with word banks for students to reference. Provide the responses on the back or in a separate document for the student to receive immediate feedback. ● For writing responses provide exemplars of possible student responses highlighting key language and structure (eg. if a student is writing sentences, include an example highlighting the differences in the English and Spanish alphabet and/or grammatical structures). ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialog. ● Interview or survey other students about a chosen topic in Spanish, then present your fi ndings to the class. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Students can build and categorize word lists (synonyms, antonyms, etc.) ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing.

Skill Building

Extension

* Updated 6.10.24