Teaching Tips from Sonrisas Spanish

January 18, 2021

Greeting and Roll Call—An Effective Transition

The Sonrisas Spanish lessons are designed to create an immersion environment in which students have lots of opportunity for [...]

December 31, 2020

Music and verse are a big part of the Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum. In Sonrisas Levels I and II, during [...]

November 30, 2020

It Is Developmentally Appropriate In the last several posts we have been looking at what characterizes the three phases of [...]

November 2, 2020

Our last two posts discussed how our Acquire, Develop, Learn® methodology gives elementary students the opportunity to naturally acquire [...]

October 5, 2020

In our last post we discussed how Sonrisas Level I provides students with the opportunity to acquire Spanish by [...]

September 15, 2020

At Sonrisas Spanish, we created the Acquire, Develop, Learn® methodology to guide how the different levels of our curriculum [...]

March 9, 2020

Circling is a big part of the TPRS Storytelling method that is used in Sonrisas Level III. As we [...]

January 31, 2020

One of the keys to acquiring a second language is the opportunity for interpersonal communication with comprehensible input. With [...]

November 9, 2019

This may seem like an odd idea coming from a curriculum writer, but sometimes you just need to ditch [...]

September 30, 2019

As part of the best practices for implementing the Sonrisas Spanish curriculum, we recommend that the instructor speaks Spanish [...]