Teaching Spanish 3 is an exciting turning point for both teachers and learners. At this level, students move beyond basic communication and begin expressing more complex ideas, exploring authentic cultural content, and building true language independence. This page gathers Spanish 3 lessons, unit plans, activities, CI resources, assessments, and ready-to-use classroom materials in one place so you can save time, strengthen proficiency, and create meaningful learning experiences for your intermediate learners.
Whether you’re building a full-year curriculum, refreshing a unit, or looking for engaging ways to increase comprehensible input, you’ll find support across all of the major skill areas: listening, reading, speaking, writing, culture, and grammar in context. These resources are aligned with ACTFL intermediate-low to intermediate-mid targets, and they are designed to help students communicate with confidence while exploring the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.
Inside this pillar, you’ll discover:
- Complete Spanish 3 unit plans
Topics such as community & places in town, clothing & shopping, identities, past experiences, health & wellness, future plans, travel, environment, and more. - Daily lesson sequences
Ready-made routines, warm-ups, CI input cycles, speaking prompts, and formative assessments tailored for intermediate learners. - Comprehensible Input activities
Storytelling, short readings, MovieTalks, picture talks, Chat Mats, and interpretive tasks that build understanding naturally. - Printable games and digital activities
Student-friendly tasks that can be used as stations, warm-ups, fast-finishers, partner work, or sub plans. - Spanish 3 grammar support in context
Preterite vs. imperfect, object pronouns, commands, present subjunctive, future, conditional, relative clauses, and more—taught through meaningful communication. - Reading and listening comprehension practices
Culturally rich texts, biographies, dialogues, levelled readings, and AP-style interpretive tasks. - Performance tasks and assessments
Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs), rubrics, speaking prompts, writing tasks, and templates you can plug directly into your curriculum.
Your intermediate learners are capable of much more than they realize. With the right input, routines, and communicative tasks, Spanish 3 becomes a year of authentic expression, deeper cultural connections, and meaningful language growth. This pillar gives you everything needed to teach an engaging, proficiency-oriented Spanish 3 course with confidence.