Category: Spanish

Translated Book Detectives

Book Detectives – Arabic, Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Spanish

These are translated tasks to support reading comprehension. If children are literate in first language they could read them to support their understanding of tasks.

Tip: To help learners understand the purpose for reading, set questions before reading the text to prevent decoding skills being solely used. Introduce question words gradually – Who? What? When? Where? Why? (Use Question Master – book detectives).

Great page for reading tips in different languages

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-tips-parents-multiple-languages#languages

Reading Tips for Parents (in Multiple Languages)

Reading Tips for Parents (in Multiple Languages)

A child’s success as a reader begins much earlier than the first day of school. Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page parent tips offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we’ve divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child.

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What you’ll find here:

Reading tips in English

View these tips online or download as a PDF:

Parent tips English

Reading tips in other languages

A downloadable handout, for parents of babies, toddlers, and children in preschool to grade 3, is available in the following languages:

Parent tips Arabic

Reading tips for parents of children with disabilities

https://spanishprofe.com/56-positive-phrases-in-spanish-for-students/

Looking for some new positive phrases to add to your teacher toolbox? As an educator, you know it is important to be positive and recognize your student’s strengths and progress both in academic and social pursuits. If you are anything like me, you might find yourself using the same positive phrases or affirmations with students every few minutes. Below you can find a list of 56 positive phrases in Spanish that you could use with your bilingual students in your classroom.

List of 5̶6̶  63 Positive Phrases in Spanish for Teachers:
1. Buen trabajo
2. Bien hecho
3. Excelente idea
4. Eres un/a buen/a chico/a.
5. Inténtalo de nuevo
6. Eres increíble
7. Felicitaciones
8. Eres el mejor
9. Estoy muy orgulloso/a de ti
10. Creo en ti
11. Muy bien
12. Sé que lo harás excelente
13. No esperaba menos de ti
14. Sé que puedes hacerlo mejor, inténtalo otra vez
15. No te desanimes, sigue intentando
16. ¡Que mejoría!
17. Maravilloso
18. Eres brillante
19. Buena respuesta
20. Eres muy inteligente
21. ¡Que creativo!
22. Eres muy especial
23. Magnífico trabajo
24. Te estás portando muy bien
25. Estás saliendo muy bien, felicidades.
26. ¡Perfecto, así se hace!
27. Fantástico
28. Sabía que podrías lograrlo
29. No te preocupes, la próxima vez lo harás mejor
30. Eres un chico muy aplicado /Eres una chica muy aplicada
31. Muy bien pensado
32. ¡Ya lo entendiste!
33. ¡Valió la pena tu esfuerzo!
34. Serás una gran persona.
35. ¡Buenísimo! ¡Qué idea tan buena!
36. Confió en ti
37. Me haces muy feliz
38. Cuentas conmigo
39. ¡Tú puedes!
40. Eres único / Eres única
41. Cada día me sorprendes más
42. Eres muy talentoso /Eres muy talentosa
43. Me encanta tu trabajo
44. Eres un excelente amigo/a
45. Eres un excelente hermano/a
46. Gracias por tu ayuda
47. Me gusta pasar tiempo contigo
48. Eres importante para mí
49. Eres adorable
50. Estás prestando atención, muy bien.
51. No te compares con nadie. No hay nadie como tú.
52. Tú te mereces lo mejor
53. ¡Qué éxito, lo lograste!
54. ¡Que original!
55. Muy eficaz de tu parte
56. ¡Qué deslumbrante!
57. ¡Así es!
58. ¡Eso es!
59. ¡Enhorabuena!
60. ¡Correcto!
61. ¡Claro!
62. ¡Claro que sí!
63. ¡Exactamente!

Spanish links

Bilingual activities and links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/spanish/all_games/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ (soap opera in Spanish)

http://www.byki.com/lists/spanish/useful-classroom-phrases-01.html

http://www.spanishplayground.net/

http://spanglishbaby.com/

https://www.duolingo.com/

http://www.wordle.net/ to create Semantic fields and Mind maps.

http://spanishplayground.net/category/vocabulary/greetings-vocabulary/

http://www.fairfields.hants.sch.uk/network-eal/eal-resources/#support

https://srtanrodriguez.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/top-20-websites-spanish-teachers-should-know-about-and-use/

 

 

Useful expression for teachers:

  • Tidy up time/time to tidy up  vamos a ordenar la clase.
  • Listening time/time to listen tiempo para escuchar
  • Snack time/time for snack     Tiempo de recreo/ desayuno
  • Gym time/time for gym         la hora de gimnasia
  • Story time                                  vamos a contar un  cuento
  • Music time/time for music       tiempo para la musica
  • Toilet?                                            El servicio?
  • Wash hands                                   lavar las manos
  • Circle/make a circle                    haz un circulo
  • Outside play time                        vamos a jugar fuera
  • Yes                                                   si
  • No                                                     no
  • Thank you                                         gracias
  • Please                                                por favor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish is read as you see it..

A as in cat

E as in elephant

I as in IN

O as in oat/long

U as in you.

Website with interesting glossaries

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/resources/glossaries

Resources

Instructional Materials and Glossaries

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
These instructional materials are to help teachers who are working with ELLs.  They are only for instructions, not for ELL accommodation.

GLOSSARIES
Bilingual glossaries are an essential and expected test accommodation for English Language Learners in the State of New York. This website presents glossaries for at least the top 10 state languages at the state level, but it is updated with new languages based on requests from schools and updates in state data.  Glossaries are for instruction and FOR TESTING accommodations of ELL STUDENTS. The Glossaries may be downloaded, printed and disseminated to educators, students and parents of ELLs. 

English Language Arts (ELA) Glossaries
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (simplified & traditional), French, Fulani, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Malay, Mandinka, Marshallese, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof

GLOSSARIES OF COGNATES
English/French cognates, English/Haitian cognates,  English/Spanish cognates

False Cognates – English/Spanish  


MATH GLOSSARIES

SCIENCE GLOSSARIES

SOCIAL STUDIES GLOSSARIES

Blogs as resources

Blogs:

The world of the internet offers a great variety of blogs and websites related to Bilingualism, although I have to say that one needs to be quite selective and critical when finding information:

Adam from Bilingual Monkeys
– Japanese, English

Ana from PreK12Plaza
– Spanish, Italian, English

Annabelle from The Piri-Piri Lexicon
– French, Portuguese, English, German

Audrey from Españolita…¡Sobre la Marcha!
– Spanish, English

Eowyn from On Raising Bilingual Children
– French, English, Dutch

Esther from Third Culture Mama
– French, English, (Mandarin Chinese)

 Galina from Raising a Trilingual Child

– Russian, English, Italian

Ilze from Let the Journey Begin
– German, Latvian, English

Jonathan from Dad’s The Way I Like It
– Welsh, English

Leanna from All Done Monkey
– Spanish, English

Maria from Trilingual Mama
– Spanish, French, English

Marianna from Bilingual Avenue
– Spanish, English, German

Olga from The European Mama
– Polish, German, Dutch

and Rita, from Multilingual Parenting
– Swedish, Punjabi, Finnish, English

 

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