In July 2019, a gator was spotted in the popular Humboldt Park Lagoon in Chicago, and "Chance the Snapper" soon went viral! Share this fun story with your students in Spanish class using these readings and suggested follow-up activities.

This is a special edition of EL MUNDO EN TUS MANOS that focuses on the gas shortage of early 2018. Please follow the lesson plans suggested in THIS BLOG POST to present the included materials to your students. If you are a...

Thank you to Dana Wilson and Catherine Ousselin with help translating these posters into French!This file contains posters for your classroom of the major question words used in story asking. If you'd like to add anything else, just email me...

NOVEMBER 11 2019 SPECIAL EDITION ARTICLE MORALES RENUNCIÓ A LA PRESIDENCIA MÉXICO CONCEDE ASILO POLÍTICO A MORALES   Because this is a Special Edition, it does not include multiple articles nor does it include many of the resources included in...

Observing other language teachers is one of the best ways to hone your own practice by noticing what strategies teachers use to help learners understand and feel comfortable.   Use one of these two note taking forms to help you...

This product contains one Wordoku puzzle which will help students internalize the meaning of the sentence "El hombre quiere hablar con la mujer porque él piensa que ella es fascinante". The sentence is divided into nine chunks, and students complete...

This editable document gives students a place to organize the spelling change patterns in verbs that have already been pointed out to them through pop-up grammar.  

This product contains the translation of a gripping excerpt from the novel "North Sea Pirate" by Robert Harrell and complete lesson plans to explore it in Spanish classes using literature circles. An editable file in English is also included so...

This game is perfect for Preferred Activity Time. On each slide, there is an answer in Spanish to a question. Students should work in groups to write the best/most creative/most logical question that would have solicited the answer shown. Consider...

This product contains 14 scripts that can be used to play Mafia in beginning French classes. Each script is written with a very limited vocabulary set, and the same limited number of structures are recycled throughout the 14 stories. The...

A six-day unit to teach the structures il/elle s'assieds, il/elle se lève, and il/elle crie, along with body parts and classroom objects. It includes a story script, TPR activity description and supplies, two songs with lyrics activities, a story, story...

This is a free issue of EL MUNDO EN TUS MANOS chronicling news stories from the summer of 2018.   SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS: Two subscription levels are available for the 2018-2019 edition: » Weekly (37 issues) Click here to view » Bi-Weekly...

This Breakout activity is designed for Spanish 2+ students that have done Breakout activities before! "Emilio" has misplaced his passport and will be unable to join his family on their Cuban vacation if he can't find it in the next...

This reading for Spanish 1 students is the result of a story asking session in Katie Sevilla's Spanish class using the TPRS® script "El amigo simpático". Use it as a supplemental reading after asking the same story in your class,...

This reading is a summary of a news story from January 2016 about Justin Bieber's visit to Tulum, in which he and his friends were asked to leave the park after climbing some monuments.

This product contains an article in Spanish with brief background information about Hurricane María, which hit land in Puerto Rico on the morning of September 20, 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane. It also contains a story, told in Spanish...

Use these two viewing guides in your Spanish classes as you watch videos suggested in the plans linked here.

ISSUE FEATURES Each issue will include the following resources: 5 news stories from the Spanish speaking world, written in Spanish and provided in 3 versions (see below) Suggested authentic resources for further exploration Activities/suggested activities for each news story a...

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This two-page story was written for Intermediate Spanish speakers. It is written from the first person perspective and contains concentrated repetitions of several past tense structures, such as "había", "puso", "vi", "corrí", and "me acerqué". It was designed to prepare...

QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) is a strategy developed by Taffy Rafael to help students respond accurately to reading comprehension questions. In addition to the originally intended purpose for QAR, there are many intangible benefits to learning and using QAR in the...

This is a sample exam for the SOMOS curriculum. No answer key is included because this is a free product that overzealous students could possibly track down.

This product includes readings and extension activities to use with "Justino", the short film and commercial for the 2015 Spanish Christmas lottery. A simplified and detailed version of the reading are provided in the present tense, and a past tense...