Want free French and Spanish lesson plans? Well, guess what? I just opened 3 Free Resource Libraries! Join over 10,000 other teachers who are already have access to this secret treasure trove of…
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Online French Activities for Students at Home
March 18, 2020So the coronavirus has hit your town, your school closed, but you are still expected to teach your students who can’t come to school. These online French activities will provide engaging…
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Online Spanish Activities for Students at Home
March 5, 2020So the coronavirus has hit your town, your school closed, but you are still expected to teach your students who can’t come to school. These online Spanish activities will provide engaging…
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Preterite vs. Imperfect: How to Choose the Correct Tense
October 16, 2019Simple 5 Question System for Choosing Preterite vs. Imperfect As Spanish teachers, we all know that one of the trickiest topics to teach is how to choose between the preterite and…
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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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7 Ways to Win Over Parents on Open House Night
September 23, 2017My baby girl is now a middle schooler – how did that happen so fast??? My husband and I attended our first Open House at the Middle School – very different…
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Spanish Lesson Plans for the Whole Year!
September 6, 2017Are you a newer teacher who could use some guidance and Spanish lesson plans from a veteran teacher? Are you teaching multiple levels of Spanish classes at once (3-5 preps)? Do…
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First Week of Spanish Class, French Class: How to Teach Using Immersion In my previous 4 posts, I’ve talked about why it’s so important to create an immersion atmosphere, how to…
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First Week of Spanish Class, French Class: How to Teach Using Immersion In my last post, I talked about why it’s so important to create an immersion atmosphere in your class…
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How to Set the Tone during the First Week of Spanish Class It’s always a challenge to figure out what to do for the first week of Spanish class. You never…
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90% Target Language, Comprehensible Input, or Immersion?? The biggest trends in French and Spanish language classrooms right now are 90% target language and comprehensible input. While I agree that these are…
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Advice for a First Year Teacher
August 6, 2016Recently Rachel A. wrote this to me: “Hola! My name is Rachel and this fall I will be starting my first year as a Spanish teacher. I’m trying to plan…
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Virtual Field Trips in Your Foreign Language Classroom
July 27, 2015So I’m sure many of you have taken your students on real field trips – boy, they’re an awful lot of work: permission slips, chaperones, counting kids, finding the one kid…
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Blog Posts, Resources, Activities, and Lesson Plans
July 26, 2020WORLD LANGUAGE CAFE on TpT FREE RESOURCE LIBRARY! Over 10,371 teachers have already accessed 25+ free lesson plans! Free Resource Library with 50 Free World Language Games! RECENT POSTS DISTANCE LEARNING…
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What to Do with Talkative Students in French Class
January 21, 2020Even as an experienced teacher, sometimes I still struggle with chatty students in French class, so I put together this list of 25 strategies for talkative students. If you’d like to see the Spanish version…
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9 Day of the Dead Spanish Activities and Lesson Plans
October 14, 2019Looking for engaging Day of the Dead Spanish activities? Spice up your classes with these Day of the Dead Spanish activities ranging from authentic video clips to make your own memorials,…
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5 Day of the Dead Spanish Activities
October 14, 2019Hey guys! Just made a video sharing 5 of my favorite Day of the Dead Spanish activities. It’s too big to host on my blog (boo hoo!), but you can watch…
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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…
