Dual immersion classroom

Embark on the exciting journey of transforming your bilingual classroom. Discover 6 powerful dual language professional development books revolutionizing teaching practices and student engagement. Stand by as we unravel each book and its unique benefit to you! Happy reading!

Get a look into Spanish classrooms from all over and see how ordinary teachers are setting up and organizing their rooms.

As a dual language teacher, you know the challenges of providing a comprehensive learning experience for your students. The lack of appropriate resources can leave you feeling unprepared and hinder your ability to create an engaging bilingual classroom environment. That’s why in this blog post, we will explore five essential bilingual classroom must haves that every dual language teacher needs to feel set up for success and prepared to empower their students.

In a previous post I wrote about setting up a calendar area. Once you've got your calendar area set up then you can start putting it to good use. Decide when and how long you will do calendar time. A lot of this will be based on how much time you have. My classes are only 25 min and our full calendar routine can take up to 7-10 minutes. During a unit where one of the elements is part of calendar time then we take the time and do it every class or every other class. When it is not part of our…

If you teach Spanish reading to beginning readers in the USA more than likely you are expected to teach high frequency words. Here are 3 things you may want to keep in mind when teaching these words: 1. Spanish high frequency words are not sight words. Sight words in English, are words that usually cannot be decoded phonetically or 'sounded out'. Because of this, we teach children to recognize them by 'sight’ that is, to memorize them. Spanish however, is a mostly phonetic language, words…

great anchor chart for fluency!

Are you a new Dual language teacher? Welcome! I hope you'll find this tips helpful! This post may contain affiliate links. It might seem obvious, duh I'm a teacher of course I have to be patient! It is so different when you have a room full of kiddos who are learning a language. You will give directions and some students will give you a blank stare because they have no idea what just happened. Let me tell you, when teaching language learners, you will have to find the patience you didn't…

Do you know what cognates are? Do you use them in your classroom? If you have ELLs in your classroom (even if you're not a bilingual teacher) you should be using them!! Or maybe you are a Dual Language teacher and have students learning Spanish? Use cognates!! For some strange reason my students adore that little word and we talk about it EVERY SINGLE DAY in our classroom. If you were to come into my classroom and ask one of my students what cognates are, they would simply say: words that…