Are you teaching writing in Spanish? If so, and you work with kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade students, I’ve got a BIG freebie for you! In this blog post, I explain how I use my Spanish writing folder tools to help my students become more independent writers. Keep reading to get all of these materials…… Continue Reading
If you teach writing in Spanish, then you may be able to relate to the difficulties I’ve had with finding materials! One problem I’ve had is finding mentor texts in Spanish. (Mentor texts are books that can be used to teach students about writing. We point out writing strategies that a published author has used…… Continue Reading
Getting primary students to write can be quite challenging at times. If you teach students who are learning another language, it becomes even more challenging! Before I became a literacy specialist, I was a classroom teacher. And one of my years in the classroom was spent in a two-way dual language program. The goal of…… Continue Reading
Yesterday I wrote a post about teaching phonological awareness in Spanish (and how it’s a little bit different from teaching phonological awareness in English). Similarly, there are some differences between teaching phonics in Spanish and phonics in English. In today’s post, I’ll share ideas and free materials for teaching beginning phonics in Spanish. I’ll cover letter…… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about phonological awareness interventions for struggling readers. I described different phonological and phonemic awareness skills, and I suggested different activities for teaching these skills. But the skills and activities were all in English. And if you teach in Spanish (like me), you might be wondering if…… Continue Reading
If you’re a bilingual teacher like me, you know just how difficult it is to find quality books written in Spanish! Since I’ve always taught the primary grades, I feel like I see the same books over and over again. So where are all the Spanish books?! The answer, unfortunately, is that there just aren’t a…… Continue Reading
Happy winter break!! I hope that you’re on break, at least – I know some schools are going a few days into next week, which can’t be fun.This week was a little crazy – not that I’d expect anything else for the last week of school before break! On Monday I was out for a…… Continue Reading
Whew! This past week felt like it was never going to end! In addition to trying to get things together for the holidays, I’ve been busy making some new materials for my students. I recently finished up a syllable fluency reading program for Spanish reading fluency and started using it with my 2nd graders. They are loving…… Continue Reading
Happy Saturday!! I am feeling pretty good about the fact that we only have 2 more days before Thanksgiving break! Our district uses Monday and Tuesday for conferences, so I will probably be interpreting so much that I’ll forget how to speak English, but I am still really excited for our short week! Speaking of conferences…before…… Continue Reading
This week I started doing my 2nd grade group a little differently. My 2nd graders are reading at a mid-Kindergarten level, but they all have slightly different needs. They are also very easily distracted. 🙂 SO instead of trying to read with all 3 of them at once, I’ve set up mini-centers so that I can…… Continue Reading
