- Northside High School
- Spanish Class Info
- CI Skills Practice
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CI Skills Practice (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking)
Requires Sign-up with My Teacher Account
¡Así se Dice! is a textbook companion website that offers accompanying activities for our system-wide adopted textbook. If you are interested in this, contact me for sign-in information.
Señor Wooly is a CI-focused language learning platform with fantastic songs and activities which mainly focus on building reading and listening skills. If you are interested in this, contact me for sign-in information.
Recommended by a very motivated beginning Spanish student!
Many thanks to my fellow educator, Ms. Denise Goodwin, and her awesome student Justin!
Resource For Learning a Foreign Language is filled with articles that focus on techniques to improve your language acquisition.
Free But May Require Individual Sign-up
Basho & Friends has catchy songs with a "hip-hop mentality" to teach you Spanish! There are videos and mini-lessons on topics like the Spanish alphabet, seasons and weather, colors, the body, numbers, days of the week, greetings and feelings, verbs, basic shapes, family, the planets, and the garden (plants, insects, etc.), and the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star song! There are also multiple practice activities, a vocabulary list, and a copy of the lyrics (with translations) for each lesson. This may only be available for free for a limited time.
i-Culture has video resources that show you different places around the Spanish-speaking world. You will need the code ICULTURE4U to sign up. Each video has subtitles in Spanish. There are also comprehension questions and links to web-based activities related to the video you watched. You can search for names of places you already know or that we talked about in class (like Granada, Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, or Segovia). Once you complete an activity, you can print out the text for the activities as well as your answers. You can also send your answers to your teacher directly from this page. The E-mail button will be active for you to send the answers once they are completed. This may only be available for free for a limited time.
Benchmark Universe eBook Library offers a 30-day free preview after sign-up. You will not have a customizable account, but you can access a ton of digital books by signing up for the Free Family eBook Subscription (K-6 Dual Language Library). There are options to hear the text read TO you by a native speaker.
DuoLingo is an excellent, free website, although it is an ads-based language learning platform. You will have to create an account. This will be available for as long as you'd care to use it!
Dreaming in Spanish is a YouTube channel created by a teacher who uses CI (comprehensible input) to teach Spanish. There is a wide variety of multi-level videos. Pablo uses pictures, gestures, real-time drawings to help the listener understand what he's saying.
The Spanish Experiment is a collection of well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish-speaker. You can read along in Spanish or in English.
Spanish Games and Stories is a list of interactive games and activities for adults and children. There are stories, vocabulary and grammar practice, listening practice, and news from the Latin World to practice reading.
Spanish Resource Library has many links to songs, books, games, movies/shows, simple-language fables, free printables for download and much more.
123TeachMe offers resources for studying Spanish online. There are online games, listening comprehension activities, and a list of resources for students of all ages.
Other Video Resources
Señor Peto's Story Listening Videos
Cho-co-la-te Hand Clapping Game
