IxChel: La Diosa de la Luna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkeNM1B1Ko
This is a great video about a story from Guatemala. I will definitely use this video as a listening activity and to expose my students to some Latin American culture.
Foreign Langauge in the Elemantary Schools (FLES)
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/fles/teacher_resources.html
In this website you will find a lot of teacher resources for any context. There are games, vocabulary words, activities, songs, and lesson plans that you may use to teach any language. I find this website interesting because it has a lot of good ideas of how to teach important vocabulary words that you have in your own classroom. Also, there is a link to commentaries on students' favorite activities which I think it's helpful to read if it's your first time teaching and you don't have an idea of what kind of activities your students might enjoy doing.
Mama Lisa's World
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=sh
I recommend this website to everyone interested in teaching English, French or Spanish to young learners. In this website you will find a variety of songs from around the world that you may use in your lessons. Most of the songs are translated in the three langauges mentioned above. Teachers may also use some of these songs whenever they talk about a specific country. For example, if you will be teaching about Venezuela, you may use one of the songs found under the Venezuelan list of songs.
Online Resources for Teachers of Spanish
http://www.iteachspanish2.com/Bienvenidos.html
This is a good website that has alot of ideas to teach Spanish. I especially like the idea of having students recite their phone numbers to the whole class as a practice activity after they have learned the numbers in Spanish. Also, if you keep on browsing in this website, you will find a variety of activities that you can incorporate in your lessons to teach different topics like colors, food, family, days of the week, and adjectives.
Españole
http://www.espanole.org/
This is a website for teachers and students interesting in Spanish. This is a great website if you're planning to teach your students about the countries where they speak Spanish. If you click on the "countries" link, you will find all kinds of infromation about 20 hispanic countries. Therefore, if you want to do a cultural project, this is a god resource. Also, there are some literature resources for the Spanish teacher.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Aprende a hablar y pronunciar "Speaking and Pronuniciation Resources"
Phonetics: The sounds of Spoken Language
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
This is a great website for Spanish or English teachers because you can learn what parts of the mouth are needed to articulate different sounds in Spanish or English. I found this website interesting for my teaching context because I can help my students improve their pronunciation of specific sounds by teaching them where they have to place their tongue, lips etc. After you choose a language, you click on a type of sound like fricatives or trills and you will be able to see how the tongue moves every time a sound is
English 4 Kids
pronounce.http://www.english-4kids.com/games.html
In this website, you will find a lot of games hat will encourage your students to speak and practice their pronunciation. If you go down the list, there is a title that says "ESL Communicative Games for Learning" and under that there are a variety of games that you can play with your students. This website is for ESL teachers but you can modify the games for any teaching context depending on your students' levels and interests. I think most of the games fit in my teaching context and young learners will love playing this games.
Los pollitos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4y6PEWhGmE&feature=related
This is a very popular song called "los pollitos" that I will use with my students to help them improve their pronunciation. I think that the incorporation of songs in the language lessons is a very fun and effective way to motivate students to pronounce words in the target language. Also, singing songs is a good way to practice the pronunciation of words several times.
ESL galaxy
http://www.esl-galaxy.com/speaking.html%20
This website has a variety of communicative activities that will encourage your students to interact and communicate with each other. All of these activities are in English but can be modified to Spanish. I especially like the activity called "find someone who likes to..." In this activity, students have to look for other students by asking them who likes to do certain activities. For example, "Do you like watching TV?" Therefore, in this activity students have to communicate in the target language in order to fill out a list. I think this is a great activity after you introduce the words like and dislike in Spanish.
Teaching Ideas
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/timefiller/describpics.htm%20
I like this idea of "Describing Pictures" because students are encouraged to describe a weird picture given by the teacher. The picture may include shapes, letters, colors or numbers that will motivate students to do a careful observation in order to orally describe the picture. I think this activity is something that I will consider doing for my teaching context because young learners like to create and describe funny pictures.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Lectura y Escritura/ Reading and Writing
Colorín Colorado
http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/brightideas
I recommend his website to bilingual teachers or any language teacher because it has great ideas for literacy activities that you can incorporate in almost any teaching context. In this website there is a section for educators that has a link to “ bright ideas” that you can use for your lessons. On the very bottom on of this page, there are two activities that I will consider doing in my teaching context: Retelling Stories and Literacy Circles.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/brightideas
I recommend his website to bilingual teachers or any language teacher because it has great ideas for literacy activities that you can incorporate in almost any teaching context. In this website there is a section for educators that has a link to “ bright ideas” that you can use for your lessons. On the very bottom on of this page, there are two activities that I will consider doing in my teaching context: Retelling Stories and Literacy Circles.
El castellano.org
I like this website because it includes an online dictionary in Spanish and can be useful if I have to explain the meaning of certain words. It also contains a variety of other resources that can be used for teachers to help them strength their language skills in Spanish. This is more like a tool for the teacher.
Mis cositas
http://www.miscositas.com/spanish.html
I love this website because it contains a lot of god ideas for reading and writing activities. In addition, a variety of worksheets are offer that may be used after a reading activity. There is also a booklet with a lot of songs that can be used as a reading activity follow by a listening activity. One of the things that I like the most is a repertoire of different Thematic Units to teach Spanish.
Literacy Connections
http://www.literacyconnections.com/SecondLanguage.php
This is a great website that you can also use for a variety of teaching contexts. There is a lot of information on strategies that you can use to encourage your students to read and write. It also provides other online resources for parents and teachcers. I will use some of the activities mentioned in this website such as "the readers theather" activity. If you look on the left side of this page, there is a link called "Readers Theather" and if you click on it, you wil find a lot of examples of this activity. All of the examles are in English but I will modify them to Spanih or I will create my own with my students.
ABCTeach
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/
In this website, you will find a lot of good ideas for teaching in general, especially for reading and writing. I like the writing activities even though I will have to modify them by changing them to Spanish. Some of the ideas that I wil consider doing is "color and write", "poetry" and "letters". Young learners will be encourage to read and write by using art within a writing or reading activity. You should look at this website if your teaching context is for begginers.
Mis cositas
http://www.miscositas.com/spanish.html
I love this website because it contains a lot of god ideas for reading and writing activities. In addition, a variety of worksheets are offer that may be used after a reading activity. There is also a booklet with a lot of songs that can be used as a reading activity follow by a listening activity. One of the things that I like the most is a repertoire of different Thematic Units to teach Spanish.
Literacy Connections
http://www.literacyconnections.com/SecondLanguage.php
This is a great website that you can also use for a variety of teaching contexts. There is a lot of information on strategies that you can use to encourage your students to read and write. It also provides other online resources for parents and teachcers. I will use some of the activities mentioned in this website such as "the readers theather" activity. If you look on the left side of this page, there is a link called "Readers Theather" and if you click on it, you wil find a lot of examples of this activity. All of the examles are in English but I will modify them to Spanih or I will create my own with my students.
ABCTeach
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/
In this website, you will find a lot of good ideas for teaching in general, especially for reading and writing. I like the writing activities even though I will have to modify them by changing them to Spanish. Some of the ideas that I wil consider doing is "color and write", "poetry" and "letters". Young learners will be encourage to read and write by using art within a writing or reading activity. You should look at this website if your teaching context is for begginers.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Aprendiendo español al escuchar
Canciones de Cricri
This is a good website for young learners because it has a lot of songs that teachers can use in their lessons to expose students ( beginner and intermediate level) to listening activities. Also, some of the songs included in this website can be found in You Tube where images appear related to the lyrics of the song. In addition, integration of these videos may help visual learners have a better connection with the language they are hearing.
José Luis Orozco’s songs
In this website there are not activities or lesson plans, however, it is important to know that Jose Luis Orozco is a very famous bilingual author and singer who has written a lot of Spanish songs for children. Teaching these songs to young learners is a good exposure to the target language and provides students the opportunity to acquire a variety vocabulary words. I used some of his songs when I taught Spanish to Elementary students.
Story Place: La biblioteca digital de niños
In this website, you can find a variety of digital books that a teacher may present in class. This website offers two libraries, a Preschool library and an Elementary School library. Students may also use this website to work individually. If the students are at an advanced level (Listening for the Gist stage), the teacher may play some of the digital stories from this website and later in groups they can discuss the story’s main idea.
La tortuga taruga
This is a good website for children who are learning Spanish. The website contains six video clips and few songs that can serve as extra listening activities for students. I think I will use some of the video clips in combination with other activities, especially if we are learning colors or numbers.
Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (Teacher Resources)
I like this website because it offers a variety of lessons that contain listening activities. Teacher can use this lessons to expose their students to authentic language. Also, under teacher resources, there is a section with a list of songs but you can’t listen to them. Maybe you can listen to the songs in You Tube
El Autobus Mágico: Está en el aire
This is a great video that can be shown to advance students. Teacher may play this songs and ask students to discuss what is going on in the video clip. The discussion can be focus on main ideas. Also, this video can also be incorporated as part of a Thematic Unit.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Propósito
The purpose of this blog is to share links, activities, and resources with anyone interested in teaching Spanish to young learners. However, some of these activities may also be modified to teach ESL.
The intended audience is all my classmates and anyone interested in Teaching a Foreign Language.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Teaching Context
The teaching context I chose is based on a Spanish classes I taught in an Elementary School in Austin, Texas in the year of 2006. Most of the links and resources will specifically be for young learners in my teaching context but can be modified for other contexts.
v The teaching context I have chosen for my work in this class is Spanish.
v Spanish would be taught as a foreign language for second and third grade students in an Elementary School in the United States. However, it is important to point out that there is diversity of cultural backgrounds, (some students are from India, China, and Korea, etc…) but all of them speak English.
v The proficiency level of the target language will be a beginner, though the students have been already exposed to the target language since they have had Spanish instruction since kinder.
v The students will get forty-five minutes of instruction once a week. There will be about sixteen (16) students in each class.
v The students’ age would be between 7-9 years old. The language instruction will be given during their regular school days.
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