Ensure Success for Your Elementary Spanish Program
Recent studies point to the fact that world language education seems to be declining in the United States. In [...]
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Story Time May Be the Most Important Part of Your Lesson
I love reading children’s Spanish stories to my elementary Spanish students. Story Time is my favorite part of the [...]
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Make Speaking Spanish Fun for Your Students
Creating Lifelong Language Learners One of the joys of teaching Spanish is that speaking Spanish is fun. Whether you are [...]
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Focus on the Experience in Your Spanish Class: Immersion, CI, and Meaningful Interaction
During the many years that we have been creating the Sonrisas Spanish curriculum and training teachers, there has been [...]
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Sonrisas, the Standards, and Student Outcomes
Sonrisas Spanish and the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning The National Standards for Foreign Language Learning were first published [...]
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Preschool Spanish with Sonrisas
Language Learning—We’ve Got It Backwards By now it has been clearly established that learning a second language promotes substantial cognitive [...]
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Scheduling and Flexibility with Sonrisas
One of the most frequent questions we get regarding the Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum is, “how long are the lessons [...]
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Sonrisas Spanish Best Practice: Use Repetitive Language
In our last post we wrote about the importance of establishing a consistent routine for your Spanish class. Once [...]
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Best Practice: Establish a Consistent Routine
Education research demonstrates the importance of routine for young learners. Benefits of having a predictable daily routine include a [...]
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Spiral Previously Learned Material Into Each Lesson
In second language learning it is evident how important repetition is. We have written a lot in this blog [...]
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