15 Exciting Creative Writing Prompts for Spanish Class to Spark Your Imagination
This blog post is part 3 of my creative writing blog post series. In part 1, I shared how you can use one simple activity: 5 Senses Brainstorm to start creative writing in your classroom. Part 2 included 3 creative writing exercises for daily warmups, and now in part 3, I will share 15 categories […]
3 Creative Writing Exercises for Daily Warm Ups in Spanish Class
Finding time to dedicate to creative writing exercises can be challenging. Maybe you have high hopes of teaching creative writing because of all of its benefits (encouraging self-expressions, boosting confidence and imagination, increasing concentration, among others). But you just can’t squeeze it into your class periods. Then doing a daily warm-up is your best option! […]
Start Creative Writing in Spanish with this ONE Activity
Teaching creative writing in Spanish class can seem far fetched. After all, we are just trying to get our students to communicate. Why add another level of difficulty to the process? But, creative writing has many benefits, and isn’t Spanish a language classroom, where we encourage all types of communication?! Benefits of creative writing include: […]
Use Story Prompt Cards to Spice Up Your Writing & Speaking Activities
Are you looking for a way to spice up your classroom communicative activities? Do students need more inspiration during creative writing tasks? Let me show you how story prompt cards can spice up your communicative tasks. With just one set of story prompt cards, you can have endless options for creative writing and speaking activities […]
Easy Spanish Poetry for Powerful National Poetry Month Lessons
I’ll be the first to admit that poetry was never my strong suit. So thinking about incorporating National Poetry Month into Spanish class, with novice or even intermediate students can be a bit scary! Teaching creative writing and poetry in the target language and interpreting figurative language may seem out of reach. But there are […]
Using the Poems of Pablo Neruda to Make Poetry Fun and Comprehensible in Spanish Class
One of the most famous Spanish poets is Pablo Neruda, and he is a great poet to introduce to your Spanish classes, especially intermediate to advanced level students. Teaching Spanish poetry Pablo Neruda style can be a daunting task. In the poems of Pablo Neruda, there is a lot of figurative language, a great amount […]
Let’s Get Digital: Current Events
Many world language teachers incorporate current events in the form of projects, presentations, or weekly assignments. We all have our typical routines with current events, but how will you make adjustments for this year? Here are some of my suggestions! 1. Write Your Own News Article / News Paper Virtually Students can format their own […]
Using Stations in Spanish Class
Keeping students engaged for an entire class can be a challenge, especially with block scheduling. One way I like to keep students actively engaged for 87 minutes is with stations. Depending on your class size and length of class period, you may need 3-6 stations per class. Here are my suggestions for implementing stations: Make […]
How to Easily Teach and Assess Presentational Communication in World Languages
Presentational communication is just one of the three modes of communication that world language teachers must teach and assess. We are also responsible for teaching interpretive and interpersonal communication skills. This is part 3 of the 5 part blog series on “The 3 Modes of Communication” where I explain in-depth each of the modes of […]