Crowd-sourcing model texts

I was very interested in this tweet when I saw it at lunchtime yesterday. It's from Samara Spielberg, who is a Spanish teacher in the US. She asks colleagues to write short texts which incorporate certain set phrases, verbs and structures. Then her students read and analyse them before using them as a model for their own work. 

by Samara Spielberg

I think this is a model we could adapt for Key Stage 2. It would be quite straightforward to provide each other with multiple model texts in this way. 

To get the ball rolling I'm going to try it out for gender in Spanish, something that I have just begun with my Year 4 new starters.

I would be very grateful if you could write a sentence or couple of sentences using the highlighted language that you can see at the top of this post.  You can see my example to start you off.  Don't worry about colour highlighting, as I can do that.  If you don't want to add your real name, a pseudonym or nickname would be fine.

You can add your sentences here in a comment, or email them to me.

I'll be seeing Year 4 on Thursday 7th, so any received before then will be most welcome!

¡Muchas gracias!  I will, of course, share any resulting resources.

Primary Languages UK Twitter List

https://twitter.com/valleseco/lists/primary-languages-uk

My Twitter followers may have noticed that over the last few days I have been asking a lot of questions.  Well, I'm preparing a training course and was asking Twitter a few questions in case I had forgotten something.  I'm compiling a list of places for primary language teachers to go for support and training.

The obvious place to go, of course, is Twitter, but if you are new to Twitter it is difficult to know who you should follow to begin with.  For that reason, I have put together a Primary Languages UK Twitter List, which contains all the UK primary language teachers, PGCE tutors, consultants and organisations in my list of followers.  If you can think of anyone that I have missed off, please let me know in the comments.

You can also subscribe to the list by going to my Twitter profile and clicking on 'Lists', then the name of the list and the 'Subscribe' button.  I have the List as a separate column on my Tweetdeck at the moment.

En mi pueblo

I was very interested to read Amanda Salt's Bringing Twitter to the Classroom blogpost recently.  Amanda asked her Twitter followers to respond to two questions in Spanish, and then used these responses as reading material for her classes.

I have recently begun to work on verbs in Spanish with Year 6.  We have discovered what infinitives look like in both languages, how to find them in the dictionary and practised using them in me gusta sentences.  We are heading for some se puede + infinitive sentences, which we will use in conjunction with the places in town that we already know.  We will be making the line of paper buildings as a writing task.

Inspired by Amanda's work, I would like to collect some information about different places in different towns via Wallwisher.  I'd be really grateful if the Spanish speakers out there could contribute.  Please tell them where you live, a place that is in your town, and what you can do there using se puede.



By the way, for those who don't know, Washington (Tyne and Wear) is The Original Washington (it says so on the town signs) and Washington Old Hall is where George Washington's ancestors lived.  Some North-East trivia for you.