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Lesson for Spanish Teachers: 4-Step Activity to Teach Basic Verbs Vocabulary

Learning new vocabulary words in Spanish is an important element in the language acquisition process. Teaching 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 any 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 be already 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).

Lesson for Spanish Teacher: 4-Step Activity to Teach Vocabulary

In this Lesson for Spanish Teacher, I will use as an example regular verbs-action words, such as correr, saltar, leer, cantar, escribir, bailar, caminar, comer, and escuchar música.

PASOS (STEPS) ACTIVIDADES: MAESTRO – ESTUDIANTES (ACTIVITIES: TEACHER – STUDENT)
Paso 1 (Step 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.)

“Repitamos las palabras…”

Paso 2 (Step 2)
Repaso de las palabras, identificación acciones con 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.“¡Excelente!, ¿la palabra es…?” (estudiante responde)
Paso 3 (Step 3)
Identificación acciones con mímica
“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)
Paso 4 (Step 4)
Uso de las palabras
(Extensión actividad escrita)
Los estudiantes pueden completar oracciones con las palabras practicadas.
Ex. Mi nombre es_____________ y me gusta _________y _________. No me gusta_________o ____________.

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