Resources
May 29, 2018
Is it the year of the podcast? Back when I was asking for your help in identifying the best new blogs for 2018, Maris thought so. I certainly see a lot more buzz around about them- a whole lot more than I did in 2014. Spoiler alert: 2014 was not the year of the podcast. More […]
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April 23, 2018
Since I developed a student handout with the highest-frequency Spanish words organized by type and including translation and rank, and recently posted about how we put our most helpful high-frequency words and phrases on our shower-curtain word walls, it stands to reason that I’m a big fan of high-frequency words. Well, I am and I’m […]
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April 17, 2018
Not long ago, I fortuitously caught a tweet or headline notification from a newspaper, maybe the New York Times. It was a review of a new children’s book. The author’s name was Junot Díaz, and the name didn’t strike me right away as familiar. Soon I realized it was the author of a recent Pulitzer novel, The […]
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March 23, 2018
What do you do when you’re entering a new classroom, but this time, you have to leave it the way you found it, every single week? Well, you ask #langchat, of course. Two and a half years ago I took to Twitter to get ideas from my amazing #langchat PLN could come up. I was re-entering the […]
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March 13, 2018
Do you remember Mad Libs? As I was planning my semester around our novel Robo en la noche and our unit’s Driving Question: What can we create and share to show an interesting itinerary for a five-day trip in Costa Rica? it occurred to me that Mad Libs would be a fun way to explore a […]
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January 18, 2018
I just opened Bloglovin’ for the first time in… well, long enough that I had to log in. Can you believe it? I had to log in. Honestly, I did almost immediately find a really cool idea: Dom posted about using news headlines as a vocabulary gap activity and it struck me as a great hook […]
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October 20, 2017
Verb charts are a core piece of world language curriculum. Aren’t they? I suppose they are, but I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because we know that visual organizers can work well for learning, and so someone once put the verbs in a chart in a certain order, and then it just got reproduced that […]
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October 11, 2017
We have big goals for our students. Tell me about yourself. Help us know how to get to your house. Describe a favorite park a Spanish-speaking tourist might visit. Narrate a story. That last one is my goal for my students this year. Well, it’s not even that complicated. For my middle grades learners, who are […]
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September 5, 2017
My husband bought me emoji stamps for my birthday. Really, he did, because I’d put them on my Amazon wish list. Why? Because a teacher needs emoji stamps, of course! Actually, this purchase stems directly from me being a homeschooling parent. Checking my daughter’s math is on my list of favorite things to do right […]
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September 1, 2017
Can you give me a hand up on this soapbox for a minute? I’ll be here just a moment, and then we’ll move on, I promise. It’s all well and good to march for women’s rights and hold signs about men telling me what to do, but when it’s a sexy Latin man with a crazy […]
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August 29, 2017
I’m at the library a lot, and I’m a bibliophile. I especially love library books. In Spanish. For small children. Okay, so I do teach very young children at a homeschool co-op, and even more importantly, my own little ones are on a bilingual journey, but whether you teach littles, have littles, or are just […]
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August 12, 2017
Meet Marisa. She’s a really smart Spanish teacher… at a language school in Madrid. Her blog goes back several years, but it just came on my radar in the past year. It’s called “Aprendiendo español callejeando por Madrid,” y de veras, es una joya. Here in the first resource I’m sharing for #AuthresAugust I present […]
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