On Monday I posted about creating model texts for colleagues to use in their lessons. I invited blog readers to contribute a text for inclusion in the resource to be used with beginner learners of Spanish who are learning about grammatical gender for the first time.
You can see an image of the contributed texts above, and you can download the resource here.
I introduced my two beginner Year 4 classes to the texts today. I gave them each a glossary of the 36 nouns that are used in the texts. Then I gave them a copy of the texts between two, and asked them to work in pairs to find the genders of each noun. They did really well finding them, using the colours as well as everything they knew about indefinite articles and final -o and -a to help them.
I'm aiming for the children to write their own texts, ultimately. Next I'm going to get them to help me to write what is in my teacher apron, starting with just a list then adding the starters, conjunctions and so on. When they start writing their own I might let them have an additional glossary for some funny vocabulary. I might also get them to underline words in the colours or even write the words in colours, as suggested by Vincent Everett.
If there are any resources that you think would be useful in this format, please mention it in the comments. Spanish or French both fine!
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