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20 Ways to Get Your Students Speaking in the Target Language, Part 1
November 30, 2016Know what makes my language teacher heart break? When I tell people that I am a French and Spanish teacher and they proceed to tell me that they took X number…
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Spanish Valentine’s Day, French Valentine’s Day, Día de los enamorados, le jour de la Saint-Valentin
January 17, 2014Valentine’s Day, Día de los enamorados, le jour de la Saint-Valentin is coming up soon. I LOVE teaching on this day – so much fun to incorporate French and Spanish love…
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9 Ways to Improve Your Students’ French Writing Skills
January 22, 2019Let’s be honest – for many of our students, writing in French is such a struggle. As teachers, grading 60-125 essays that are poorly written can be torture. Imagine if you…
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25 French Writing Activities, French Writing Projects for Middle School and High School
January 2, 2019In this series on teaching French writing skills, we’ve already discussed using templates to model good writing, as well as the importance of French transition words to decrease choppiness. This post…
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Do you struggle to teach writing to your French students? Do they write short, choppy first grade level sentences which are extremely painful to grade? Do they continue to make the…
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Using French Transition Words to Improve Student Writing
January 2, 2019In my last post about how to teach writing in French, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates for your lower level language students. This next post will teach…
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Using 100 Spanish Transition Words to Improve Writing for High School, Middle School Students
December 12, 2018In my last post about how to teach writing in Spanish, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates and examples for your lower level language students. This next post…
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Are you struggling to teach Spanish writing to your students? Do they write short, choppy first grade level sentences which are extremely painful to grade? And even more frustrating, do they…
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25 Spanish Writing Activities, Spanish Writing Projects for High School, Middle School Students
December 12, 2018In this series on teaching Spanish writing skills, we’ve discussed using templates to model good writing, as well as the importance of Spanish transition words to decrease choppiness. This post will…
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10 Reasons Why World Language Class Is the Best!
August 4, 2018Thought I’d write this fun post sharing how awesome it is that we get to teach French, Spanish, and a variety of other languages each day. Gym and lunch beware, we’re…
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How to Set the Tone during the First Week of French Class It’s always a challenge to figure out what to do for the first week of French class. You never…
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The 20 Worst Sub Experiences Ever!!
February 27, 2018As I was writing my last post, “Why Subs Fail (and How to Help Them Succeed)“, I heard lots of sub plans horror stories from all of you and just had to…
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Why Spanish Sub Plans and French Sub Plans Fail
February 27, 2018Do you leave what you think are very clear Spanish sub plans or French sub plans only to return to chaos the next day? Have any of the following happened to…
