Teaching Tips from Sonrisas Spanish

November 2, 2020

Students Are Ready to Learn with Level III

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 [...]

June 3, 2019

One of the most underrated and valuable strategies that teachers can use to improve their teaching is reflection. Whether [...]

May 6, 2019

At this time of year, when classes are wrapping up, and students and teachers alike are getting excited for [...]

April 5, 2019

By this time in the school year your elementary Spanish students have had many months to develop their comprehension [...]