If your French students are writing short, choppy first-grade level sentences, try using French writing templates to dramatically improve and formalize their writing. If this is happening in your class, you’re…
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French Transition Words to Improve 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 you…
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Spanish Transition Words to Improve Writing
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 will…
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How to Use Spanish Writing Templates
December 12, 2018Are you struggling to teach Spanish writing to your students? If your Spanish students are writing short, choppy first-grade level sentences, try using Spanish writing templates to dramatically improve and formalize…
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Spanish Writing Activities, 25 Spanish Writing Projects
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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Laura Lee, Spanish Teacher, Teacher Feature #5
February 17, 2018Today, we’ll meet veteran Teacher – Laura Lee (For the Love of Spanish) who taught Spanish K-8 in private and public schools for 18 years and is currently taking a year…
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Adding Francophone Culture to French Class
January 11, 2018We all know that Francophone culture is an important part of learning French, but we often don’t spend as much time as we should teaching our students about the cultures of…
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The Ultimate List of High School Rewards!
October 9, 2017Looking for high school rewards or middle school rewards to motivate students? Tired of finding reward ideas that are more applicable to elementary kids than your 8th, 9th, or 10th graders?…
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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…