Summer Spanish 1 Semester 1 Immersion Course (Elementary)

In this FIVE-week interactive, semester-long Spanish course, we will meet as a group THREE times per week for 45 minutes to learn Spanish. In the class students will develop the ability to understand and communicate in Spanish while playing games and having a ton of fun through reading short stories and class novels. Here is what you can expect throughout the course.

Hola! Welcome to my Spanish  course. This course will be great for students that have had NO exposure to Spanish. Students will be able to read, write, speak, and listen in Spanish at a beginner level after completing this course. I also offer 1:1 private tutoring if they need extra live help. I also offer a full curriculum for Spanish 2 and 3 if you wish to continue down the path of learning Spanish.

I use Google Slides to teach this unit. Students do not to have  previous knowledge of Spanish to join this class.  I teach with a focus on Comprehensible Input and not grammar since that is not how language is naturally acquired.  Comprehensible input Spanish readers are a game changer in the classroom. Leveled readers in Spanish tell captivating stories and incorporate repetition of high-frequency language making them an extremely effective way to engage students.  We will read a novel entirely in Spanish, have discussions in Spanish and play games/activities to expose students to the target language. Some fun traditional games that we will play are Tic-Tac-Toe, Connect 4, Sorry, Snakes and Ladders and Pictionary. The focus will be on developing skills in the areas of listening, speaking and reading.  

There are TWO class novels for this class.  They are called Edi El Elefante and Cabibara Con Botas. They are perfect novels to start learning Spanish because they are filled with common repetitive phrases, structures and vocabulary words to help students acquire the language. 

Edi El Elefante Book Description- Edi is a talented elephant, but he is very small. Edi does not want to be talented or small;  he wants to be BIG! One day, Edi discovers that a small animal can solve a big problem and that being small is not so horrible after all. This book is beautifully illustrated by the author herself. It is strategically written and illustrated with only 55 unique words and 100 fully  illustrated pages! This highly comprehensible reader is absolutely perfect for beginning language learners. The exceptionally low unique word count and high frequency factor (the number of times core structures are embedded in the text) in the Comprehension-based™ reader, ‘Edi El Elefante’, make this an ideal read for very beginning Spanish students. Each page is loaded with cognates (words that are similar in English and Spanish), recycled vocabulary, and illustrations, which makes this read highly comprehensible. Enjoy the story! The more you enjoy it, the more you will acquire Spanish without even realizing it! We hope you enjoy reading your way to FLUENCY!

Capibara Book Description- Join Carlos, el capibara on his adventure through Ecuador and the Amazon Rainforest. This is a perfect book for beginning language learners for elementary, middle school, and high school classes. Students will learn more about South American animals, the water cycle, and deforestation as Carlos finds his way through a story with science and social studies cross-curricular content with only 55 new words in Spanish.