Easy and adaptable sub plans

 If you use stories in the classroom, making sub plans that include input is easy. I am out tomorrow and below is what my Spanish 1 students are doing during our 85 minute class. These plans could be easily adapted to any story! And this could be a sub day or a day for the teacher to relax a bit (for a day similar to what Kristy Placido recently wrote about), but still have students get input.

• Listen and Read: Students will review the character descriptions from Go! Vive a tu manera. They will do this Textivate Sequence (with (robot-like) audio) about Juanma, Gaspar, Agus, Sofí, Zoe, y Simón. The sequence has 3 activities, one matching English to Spanish and two that put the description sentences in order. You can see the character description sentences here. If you use stories, I highly recommend a Textivate subscription! In addition to excellent sub plans, I use it for weekly homework. 

• Listen and Write: Students will do a cierto/falso dictation. They will listen to me on Flipgrid. This is also about the characters in Go! Vive a tu manera (click here to see the sentences that they will hear). I love doing dictations and they are so good for so many reasons. I have started to record myself on Flipgrid because it really helps students to be able to go at their own speed. And Flipgrid is better than a recording because they can see me. 

• Write: After getting lots of input about the characters, students will write sentences comparing themselves or people they know to five of the characters. I will give them some examples:
• Lupe es creída y mimada. Yo no soy creída y mimada.
• Mercedes es inteligente y exigente. Yo también soy inteligente y exigente.
• Álvaro tiene pelo corto y castaño. Mi hijo también tiene pelo corto y castaño.
• Zoe tiene un hámster. Yo no tengo un hámster. Yo tengo dos gatos. 

• Speak: On the same Flipgrid, students will record themselves saying their sentences. I will be the only one who sees their videos (I have set it to moderated so the videos are hideen) and I will respond to all of them, which is so fun!

• Read and Listen: If students finish all of this in class, they will work on the nuggets for La invitación. I love those nuggets! If you don't have a subscription for Sr. Wooly, I highly recommend it!

Another Story/Song of the Week for Novices

Oh, how I love teaching Spanish 1!

Update 9/26/19: I have added a Quizlet set with comprehension questions, a textivate, a dictation, some other homework-type activities in the doc, and screenshots to review the story.

Update 1/25/20: Here is another activity from TeachVid.

I can write up short, basic stories and get so much out of them. I can also get them really liking Spanish class and very engaged... especially with fun music videos and stories.

Step 1: Tell your students that you are going to tell them a story based on a music video. Tell them they will get to see the video after they listen and understand the story.

Step 2: Tell students the story (click here or see below) (which leaves out some key details and the ending). You can do a listen a draw, read it directly to them, read it to them and act it out, project and read together, read alone, or whatever!

Step 3: Watch your students watch the video and see their reactions. So fun! #Engagement

Step 4: Do the cloze activity with the song.

Step 5-??: Do some other activities with the story, such as cierto/falso, re-tells (spoken or written), the marker game, Quizlet Live, Kahoot, comprehension questions, etc.

Yo no sé

Update 7/14/20: I created this slideshow (feel free to make a copy) and a several new links on last second to slide (ideas for synchronous and asynchronous).

Update: Here is a past tense version of the story.

"Yo no sé" is a song that has been on one of my playlists for a few weeks, but I wasn't sure if I liked it. But then I saw the video, read the lyrics, and thought, "Oh, yes, this will be a hit with students!" My husband also heard it (on repeat) and agreed that it was a good one.

The song is so repetitive and sweet (and appropriate!). So, I wrote up a little story to use with my Spanish 1 students. I also created a basic cloze activity and translated the song. Click here if you would like to use the story or just the cloze activity.

Update 1/25/20: Here is another activity from TeachVid.

Update 9/19/19: I just created this video and made a little evaluacioncita for it for after the story.