Take a look inside Spanish Chat Mats: 109 printable chat mats for speaking and writing, organized by theme and by grammar. Every mat has sentence frames, a model dialogue and the verbs students need to keep a conversation going in Spanish, and each one comes as a PDF and a Word file. Get the chat… Read More 109 ChatMats for Grammar and Speaking Practice
Bring culture, reading, and hands-on learning together with a tissue paper cempasúchil craft for El Día de Muertos! In this video, I share a simple mini craft project that supports comprehensible input while students follow directions completely in Spanish. This activity connects culture with language practice and gives students repeated exposure to informal commands in… Read More Cempasúchil Craft for Día de Muertos Spanish Class
Bring el Día de los Muertos into Spanish class with a flexible ofrenda project students can adapt by level. In this video, I share a practical project idea for creating an ofrenda in Spanish class. It can work for novice learners, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, and Spanish 3+, depending on how much language you ask… Read More Ofrenda Project for Día de los Muertos in Spanish Class
Help students build confidence narrating in the past with short, contextual preterite practice! Learning to narrate in the past takes time, especially in Spanish with so many irregular verbs. In this video, I share a simple way to give students “little and often” practice using the preterite in context. This activity focuses on talking about… Read More Preterite Practice for Talking About Halloween in Spanish
Give Spanish verb practice immediate feedback with self-checking sheets! In this video, I share how self-correcting sheets can help learners practice Spanish verb conjugations on their own or in class. Verbs take time, repetition and feedback, and these digital activities give students another practical way to keep practicing. I talk about using these sheets for… Read More Self-Checking Sheets for Spanish Verb Conjugation Practice
Make Spanish adjective practice clearer and more interactive with opposites, silly examples, and a self-correcting sheet! In this video, I share a simple way to introduce and practice Spanish adjectives using opposites, twin-style comparisons, and polar-opposite examples. These contexts give learners a practical way to understand meaning and then use adjectives to describe themselves or… Read More Teaching Spanish Adjectives with Fun Opposites and Self-Checking Practice
Use odes as a meaningful writing activity for language learning! In this video, I share a simple way to bring odes into language class so students can write about something that matters to them. If you teach Spanish, Pablo Neruda’s odes are a natural place to begin, but this idea can also work in French… Read More Odes for Language Learning in Spanish and French Class
Turn vocabulary review into a quick, high-interest classroom game! In this video, I share a simple buzzer activity you can use with a vocabulary page from your language program. Students work in groups, use categories from the vocabulary list, draw clues, and buzz in when they are ready to guess. It feels a little like… Read More Fun Buzzer Vocabulary Game for World Language Class