TEACHER TOOLS: Teaching Kids Spanish

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Teaching Kids Spanish Vocabulary
Lesson for Spanish Teachers
Learning new vocabulary words in Spanish is an important element in the language
acquisition process. Vocabulary should be constantly taught and reviewed during a
lesson as a phonological awareness activity, or to pre-teach new vocabulary of a story
or text.
Teaching vocabulary is also important because it increases the chances to become a
better reader in any language and to improve comprehension skills.
Kids love to learn new words in Spanish, but it might be challenging at times to engage
kids in these activities so here I’ll give you an idea on how to make a quick vocabulary
lesson that children will love.
First, select the words you want to teach: (according to the age and unit). Here are a
couple guidelines to help decide which words to choose:
a. select unknown words
b. select the main-critical words to understand a text/selection children will read
c. You might already be teaching multi-syllabic words with prefixes, suffixes (ex.
-ada; payasada, cucharada, millonada) Greek and Latin roots (ex. acróbata,
arquitecto, agrónomo), cognates or words with several meanings (ex. banco,
tierra)
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8 4-Step
Activity
to Teach
Vocabulary
Teaching Kids Spanish Vocabulary
An Activity in 4-Steps
PASOS
ACTIVIDADES: MAESTRO – ESTUDIANTES
Paso 1
Presentación Palabras
Verbos-acciones
“Vamos a aprender palabras que representan acciones…”
(Mostrar 3 fotos de los verbos correr, saltar, bailar)
“¿Qué acción es ésta?” (apuntar a una de las fotos de acciones)
(Después de respuestas, reforzar las palabras nuevas)
“La palabra es correr“ (colocar la palabra al lado de foto)
(Continuar procedimiento con las demás fotos, hasta decirlas
todas.)
Paso 2
Repaso de las palabras,
identificación acciones con
palabras
Paso 3
Identificación acciones con
mímica
Paso 4
Uso de las palabras
(Extensión actividad escrita)
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“Repitamos las palabras…”
“Vamos a cerrar los ojos…”
(retirar SOLO las palabras de la pizarra)
Invitar estudiantes a colocar palabra por palabra al lado de la
acción correspondiente en la pizarra.
VISUALS
FOR WORDS
INCLUDED
correr (pag. 5)
saltar (pag. 6)
leer (pag. 7)
cantar (pag. 8)
escribir (pag. 9)
bailar (pag. 10)
caminar (pag. 11)
comer (pag. 12)
escuchar
música (pag. 13)
“¡Excelente!, ¿la palabra es…?” (estudiante responde)
“Vamos a cerrar los ojos nuevamente…”
(Retirar las fotos de acciones y palabras de la pizarra)
“¡Ahora vamos a ser mimos!”
(Modelar una accion para que los estudiantes digan la palabra,
luego invitar a uno de los estudiantes a modelar una acción
para que los demás digan la palabra)
Los estudiantes pueden completar oracciones con las palabras
practicadas.
Ex. Mi nombre es_____________ y me gusta _________y
_________. No me gusta_________o ____________.
See page 4 for a written
excersise sheet with more
sentences to use in Step 4.
Spanish Vocabulary
Fill in the blanks with the new words:
NEW WORDS:
1. Mi nombre es_____________ y me gusta
_________ y _________.
correr
saltar
leer
cantar
escribir
bailar
2. A mi no me gusta _________ o ____________.
caminar
surfear
comer
3. Yo quiero aprender a _____________.
4. Yo tengo una hermana que sabe _________.
5. Yo tengo un hermano que no sabe ________.
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