This workbook
To help in the language learning process, we’ve developed this workbook with the Spanish stories we will use thoroughout the year. This workbook is not “homework,” rather a guide to help in the language acquisition process. Depending on your child’s level, this workbook will be used differently by each family. Some students will enjoy coloring in the pages, and looking at the pictures to be reminded of words and phrases they’ve learned. Other students will actually read the stories in Spanish and complete the short activities on the bottom on each page. Most of these stories will be done in class, however there are some extra stories for additional practice that we will not cover in class. This workbook is designed to be used over the course of two semesters.
Why stories?
According to Stephen Krashen, a world renowned and respected linguist and author, language is learned through meaningful and comprehensible input. In other words, a language is learned through understanding messages. Stories allow for a lot of comprehensible input, which promotes long term retention. Stories use both sides of the brain and kids have an emotional response to a silly story, and therefore are learning the second language sub- consciously. This also allows for language to be learned in “chunks” and important phrases which can then be easily used in conversation.
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