We are in the last week of MMM, although the polls remain open until the end of the month, and the resources never expire. Check out our Round 2 and beyond Presentation with voting links. The 1st semifinal went back ..read more

Our March Music Madness is just under a month away and we’ve got some surprises in store. The first is the unveiling of our Teacher Bracket Prediction Challenge. Teachers can fill out a google form with their picks to try ..read more

With a toddler and newborn, I haven’t posted as much as I would like the past year. But if there’s one thing that gets me foregoing sleep so I can work on creating… it’s the annual March Music Madness. We ..read more

We are less than a week away from March Music Madness 2024. Plenty of time to get in on what will sure to be the highlight of the year for your students. We recently sat down with Claudio Elliot on her podcast Growing with Proficiency to discuss the Music Tournament. One of the key talking points is how we can use music as a way to discuss in the target language, without having to study the lyrics. Our resource drive is growing and the one thing you won’t want to miss is the Round 1 Matchup Slideshow which has all the links you need and is the perfect thing to project if you listen and discus ..read more

1709532060   days   hours  minutes  seconds until SpanishPlansMMM24 The 11th annual March Music Madness tournament is approaching and teachers are gearing up. Our MMM24 homepage has what you need. Don’t miss what students consistently call their favorite part of the year. Our 2024 bracket features 16 current songs (all from the past year) from 25 different artists, hits songs that are currently played on the radio, with over 3 BILLION streams.  New to the craze and looking for more information? Check out our new FAQ page. Any questions Here’s all the links you ..read more

Next week I’ll be using the Spanish Lottery video of Justino with materials from the Comprehensible Classroom. In order to preview the story I used a Mad Libs activity, generated by ChatGPT which I  fined-tuned. Students worked with a partner: they first wrote the words on a list. Then they asked their partner for their words to fill in the text. They then read the completed text to their partner. Here’s a free copy of the activity. You can also do it together as a class by taking suggestions from the class and then writing in their answers and reading the story together ..read more

After different variations over the years, [FVR (Free Voluntary Reading], Lectura Libre, SSR (Silent Spanish Reading) among others] I’ve again renamed our reading time in class to ISR: Independent Spanish Reading. To kick things off this year, we read for several days in a row to give students a chance to finish a book. We had already read 1 book together as a class to start the year (Capibara con Botas) so I started off ISR with the easiest of books that I had in my collection.  When students were finished reading they submitted their name with the book they read and I created posters to ..read more

After presenting a MovieTalk/Clip chat, what’s your next step? If you use screenshots to present a video (which is usually my preferred way), then you are already halfway there. Organize the important screenshots on a slide and leave room for students to write underneath the picture. I’ve done this before to have students work with partners to re-tell the story, but another option is to have them write the description of the scene or the phrase as part of a note-taking activity. This allows the students to physically write out the main phrases and vocabulary you are targeting. You can type the ..read more

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Some ideas to keep in mind this month: We recently combined several of our products into a Hispanic Heritage Bundle… including our popular 10 Misconceptions about the Spanish Speaking World. Technology: Hispanic Country Powerpoint/Slides Backgrounds. Have fun by using our free Passport Page and have students look up a fact about each country. Or purchase our Hispanic Country Stamp Clipart or if you want the real stamps, you can purchase them as a set or individually. We’ve recently updated our list of Hispanic novels for young adults to 180. You can check out th ..read more

It’s that time of year again…. summer break is coming to an end for me and I’ll be back in the classroom for year 17 soon. Here’s a few things we’ve been up to over the summer to help make YOUR transition back to the classroom an easier one. With more and more teachers needed new ways to show student growth to administration these two projects are just what every teacher needs. Our first product is our Timed Writing Prompts for any language with a timed-writing sheet to count words and FOUR original storyboards. Featuring six panels of a sequenced story, students write as much as they can in 5 ..read more