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EBOOK-La Leyenda de La Llorona Teacher Resource (Level 1, first semester; Novice Low-Novice Mid)

Bryce Hedstrom — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:34:48 +0000

Now even beginning students can read and experience the authentic Mexican folktale La Llorona in Spanish. This series of lessons shows how to let the story unfold and how to keep students engaged all along the way.

This lesson plan book explains how to present the story step-by-step.

Written with just 100 total words, the accompanying easy reader, La Leyenda de la Llorona Embedded Reading, is designed for level I, semester 1 students. With the ascending levels in the story, teachers can begin wherever their students need to start. This resource can even be used again in a following course with growing levels of complexity as students acquire more and more language.

Contains complete lesson plans for 10 days of activities for the embedded reading.

“What I love about your Llorona project is that it gives a teacher a blueprint of how to work with a story. Your work helped me understand a lot better how to put some things together.”
—Michele Whaley, co-developer of Embedded Reading

“Bryce has outdone himself with an incredible body of work based on La Llorona. Every step along the way he describes how to pre-teach vocabulary, use the readings, segue from step to step and more. This is an incredible resource for anyone wondering how Embedded Readings can be used in the classroom. It is really a primer for this kind of work.
Don’t worry if you are not fluent in Spanish! There is great information here that anyone can use.”
—Laurie Clarcq, co-developer of Embedded Reading

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EBOOK-Activities and Readings for El Día de los Muertos (Level 1 & 2; Novice Mid-Intermediate Low)

Bryce Hedstrom — Sat, 13 May 2023 00:19:54 +0000

(Copy Masters with permission to use in your classroom)
My students love the Day of the Dead. If it is presented in a comprehensible and interesting way, even students at the beginning of Level I classes can read and discuss the holiday in Spanish. This is a packet of student-tested materials that I use at all levels to help students learn about El Día de los Muertos and to demonstrate what they have learned. This packet contains 20 copy-ready handouts for your classroom. It contains authentic cultural stories that have been differentiated into four ascending levels. It has authentic and fun songs with easy guitar chords, a word search puzzle, differentiated quizzes, an extensive vocabulary list and cultural/language projects with rubrics.Permission to copy for one teacher’s classroom use is granted with the purchase of this item.

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EBOOK-Read Harry Potter In Spanish (Level 3-AP; Intermediate Low-Intermediate High)

Bryce Hedstrom — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:19:21 +0000

Read Harry Potter in Spanish (Levels 3-AP) is a guide to help students read the 1st Harry Potter novel in Spanish. Includes unit lesson plans, a glossary, page-by-page vocabulary help for the first nine chapters, chapter quizzes, activities & a final project.
51 Pages.

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EBOOK-El Alquimista Student Support and Glossary (Level 3-AP; Intermediate Low-Intermediate High)

Bryce Hedstrom — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:46:55 +0000

One of the best ways to learn Spanish is simply to read for pleasure. If we can find books that hook kids with a captivating story, the content itself will compel them to read. The Alchemist is that type of story. Besides the story, the setting and the historical allusions are rooted in Iberian culture and imagery. Through the journeys of Santiago, the main character in the story, students will absorb Hispanic culture and history. One problem with the novel is that the author assumes a high level of literacy: the content is so deep and rich that students have difficulty understanding the text. I wrote this guide to help my students to understand the vocabulary and the historical, cultural, geographical and religious elements in the novel. 82 pages.

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EBOOK-The Power of Cognates (All Levels)

Bryce Hedstrom — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:44:27 +0000

Learning to speak a new language requires our students to acquire hundreds of words, and unfortunately there are very few short cuts. To become reasonably fluent students must have a storehouse of words at their fingertips. But there is a secret that can help them. Since up to one third of the words in Spanish and English are cognates, students can exponentially increase their Spanish vocabulary once we teach them to recognize and use them. This book contains thousands of cognates in 27 types of English/Spanish cognate groups, plus two lessons on the most common false cognates. Each section begins with the most frequently used Spanish words in that cognate group. Teachers and authors have said this feature is particularly helpful in picking the most high frequency words to use in class or as they write. The book also includes tests, practice assessments and tips on remembering the words. 120 pages.

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EBOOK-Songs for Spanish Class (Revised Edition, All Levels)

Bryce Hedstrom — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:39:51 +0000

NOTE: Revised, expanded and updated in 2017!

An automatic FREE download of 7 traditional songs comes with this eBook. This is a collection of catchy songs to help students of all levels. These are easy-to-read and easy-to-sing songs from all over the Spanish-speaking world. It contains children’s songs and traditional folk songs with historical and cultural commentary so that students can understand the meaning of the lyrics and the significance of the song in Spanish-speaking culture. This book also has grammar songs, vocabulary songs and holiday songs. Each song has easy guitar chords and is in a key that is easily singable for a group. Contains an exhaustive grammatical index, a complete subject index, a geographical and cultural index, and notes and teaching tips for the teacher. Illustrated by the author. Also available as a pdf download to show songs on an overhead in class! 93 pages.

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EBOOK-Hi-Impact Reading Strategies (All Levels)

Bryce Hedstrom — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:26:01 +0000

This book is for language teachers—world language teachers, heritage language teachers, ELL teachers and EFL teachers. It was born out of over 30 years of teaching in classrooms from middle school to college, and it is meant to be both inspirational and practical—a way to get students engaged with reading and keep them there. The focus is on real applications and real understanding of how to teach reading and justification from researchers and classroom experts. The book is filled with quotes by these experts to help justify your case for extensive reading and to encourage you that you are on track with it.

Everyone from new teachers to veterans will benefit from the hands-on approach here. There are citations from scholars in second language acquisition and classroom teachers to appease curiosity and convince skeptical colleagues and administrators that high volume reading works.

The two key precepts here are: 1) Reading is an important part of learning language, and 2) only by reading do students become better readers. Neither of these are startling ideas, but teachers do not hear enough about the effectiveness of a steady schedule of regular reading in the classroom—and they don’t have a plan to make it work. Too often, world language teachers are missing training on this crucial aspect of acquisition in their university methods courses. And even authors and teacher trainers may not spend enough time explaining the day-to-day routines that make reading work.

Learning loss can be compensated by a regular multifaceted reading program. This book and the accompanying seminar explain the what, why, and how to implement four key reading strategies that will revolutionize your students’ acquisition and enjoyment. 219 pages.

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