This lesson reviews the Spanish verb GUSTAR - it's conjugation, use with nouns and infinitives, and using it in the Simple Form versus the Emphasis & Clarity Form.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive
This theme is part of Spanish 2, Unit 2: Home Life. This theme is 8 days teaching food words and negative informal commands in Spanish.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Welcome to Spanish Grammar in Context, where you will find detailed grammar explanations of the Spanish language. Unlike traditional reference grammars, each topic is explained using authentic video examples from the Spanish in Texas project. Accompanying practice quizzes are available on an open Canvas course site.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
This unit introduces children to a number of concepts related to water. First, students activate and build on prior knowledge as they explore various places where water is found (e.g., lakes, rivers, swimming pools). In the second lesson, students differentiate between water found naturally (e.g., a lake) and artificially (e.g., a swimming pool). The third lesson focuses on the uses of water and its importance for human life. Next, students learn about the various states (solid, liquid, gas) that water can be found in. In the final lesson, students learn what people can do to conserve water and care for this natural resource. Throughout the lessons, students are exposed to songs and books about water. The unit culminates with as assessment that asks pairs of students to create a nonfiction question-and-answer book about a specific representation of water. Description of the assessment task with an optional technological application is also included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This seminar addresses the inherent challenges of translating poetry from different languages, cultures and eras. Students do some translation of their own, though accommodations are made if a student lacks even a basic knowledge of any foreign language.
Material Type: Full Course
This is a workshop on Skimming, Scanning, and Interpreting | Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 Workshop.
Material Type: Interactive
Going to school, playing with your friends, reading a book or giving your opinion on issues that interest you are activities and rights that you exercise. However, for some children, these activities are unthinkable as they live in isolation due to their physical or mental limitations. As you read, identify the conditions in which millions of children with different abilities live in the world.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Reading
Students take a walk on the wild side when they research an animal and create a scavenger hunt activity for their classmates.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
These videos from COERLL's annual Heritage Spanish workshop address different topics in heritage teaching such as: - Heritage language program development - Open educational resources for heritage Spanish - Basic sociolinguistic concepts for the Heritage Spanish classroom - Spanish HL Learning and Teaching
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Soy el mundo will allow students to use prior knowledge of names, places, and ages from unit #1 through reading biographical excerpts of culturally relevant Spanish speaking figures. These excerpts, describing people's (dis)likes and physical characteristics, are authentic readings to enhance literature and grammatical concepts in 20 minute periods.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Students learn food vocabulary, restaurant vocab. and phrases, mealtime and food culture, and grammar as it pertains to food and eating.
Material Type: Unit of Study
eComma is a social reading tool teachers can install in their Learning Management System (LMS). It allows students and teachers to read and annotate texts together, pooling their knowledge and perspectives for a deeper understanding and analysis of what they are reading. The eComma website linked here explains how to explain the tool in an LMS and has a user guide and case studies with ideas for how to use it in a class.
Material Type: Case Study, Interactive, Reading
Karina has lived all around the world and seen the importance of learning a second language. You'll learn why you should, too.Karina Morey is in seventh gra...
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
A little guide for foreign language teachers and parents! Please check out my Workbook 'German for Children' and my website: www.beebilingual.org How to teac...
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices for foreign language instruction at the high-school and college levels. It features 12 interactive media-rich modules taught by different professors from the University of Texas at Austin. Modules include Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Technology, Classroom Management, and Assessment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Syllabus
This resource presents the World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. Through this resource, Foreign Language teachers can access the standards at a glance as and Adobe Acrobat PDF.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan, Module
Description provided by COERLL: COERLL hosted an online “OER hangout” on September 25th on the subject of creating open educational resources (OER) with students. With 26 people attending, five language instructors shared their experiences of working with their students to create openly licensed resources for teaching and learning: Amber Hoye and Kelly Arispe lead the Boise State University Department of World Languages’ Pathways OER Language Teaching Repository of openly licensed proficiency based activities, created by students and teachers. Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, and Laura Middlebrooks are part of a team of faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University who have developed an open, connected platform for students to share authentic resources. At Boise State, upper-level undergraduate students, with the mentorship of staff and faculty, create activities to be used in the weekly language lab component of introductory language courses. These activities can also be used in the classroom and K-12 teachers in Idaho have been involved in creating and teaching with them. At Virginia Commonwealth University, undergraduate students in the 202 class, who are either majors on their way to upper level courses or students finishing their language requirement, curate authentic resources and discuss them with native speakers. Then, upper level students turn those curations into instructional modules, which are being integrated into online open textbooks. You can learn more about the logistics of these projects by viewing the webinar video, reading about the projects, and perusing the materials. Here, we’ll mention a few of the important themes that came up during the discussion. One important element of students being involved in materials creation is that they understand what other students will be interested in and can choose topics and texts they know their peers will enjoy. Involving students ensures that a more diverse array of voices and perspectives are represented in the materials, and gives students more of a choice in their own education. Students also gain skills beyond language and culture when they work on these projects: digital citizenship, open license knowledge, technical skills, an understanding of language proficiency, and knowledge of state and national standards. Each of these projects has a broad community of people with various skills who can support each other and contribute in different ways. At Boise State, the language resource center director, language students and students from other departments, faculty mentors, SLA & CALL researchers, K-12 teachers, state partners, and librarians have all contributed to the OER. At VCU, students, faculty, and librarians contribute to the materials and partnerships are developing with K-12 teachers who use the materials in their courses. Each of these projects follows an iterative process of development. The work doesn’t start and finish in the span of a semester, it grows and changes. Students develop materials, native speakers proofread them, teachers teach with them, and the team refines them. The Pathways Project carries a disclaimer that “The activities on the Pathways Project OER Repository were created by upper-division students at Boise State University and serve as a foundation that our community of practice can build upon and refine. While they are polished, we welcome and encourage collaboration from language instructors to help modify grammar, syntax, and content where needed.” The cycle of the projects is such that lower-level students can get involved in the project as learners, but go on to take a more active role in the project as they progress. The panelists recommend to anyone interested in creating OER with their students that they start small, and reach out to available communities (institution-wide, or online professional networks) for support and sharing. On that note, COERLL’s next OER hangout is on the topic of joining a teacher community. Join us on November 13th! View the webinar video, links to the repositories, slides from the presenters, and more on the event page of COERLL’s website.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
