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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) [2]

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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 ________. [4]

escuchar música

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