Creative Play Bilingual Homeschool

Apr. 9, 2007

Bilingual, Spanish, and Second language links

This morning, I thought I'd post some helpful links for those teaching in Spanish, bilingually, or Spanish as a second language. I did not collect these links on my own, rather there is a group of us that have compiled this, and continue as we find more. Later, I'll try to post more links to make worksheets, and flashcards. I know I have them around here somewhere.

Actividades del primer grado
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/vinculo/table1.html

Actividades Infantiles y Educación Preescolar. If you've ever heard of First School (http://www.first-school.ws), here is the Spanish counterpart. Alphabet activities and other themes.
http://www.primeraescuela.com

Art in Spanish
http://www.anacleta.homestead.com/artspanish.html

Crecer sin escuela - a homeschool link
http://www.crecersinescuela.org/

Enchanted Learning - a little of everything of every subject that you could ever want, in many languages - it's free, but for a small yearly fee you can become a member and get worksheets printed without ads.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Hubbard's Cupboard - Among other things, are printable sight word booklets in both English and Spanish
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org

La Lengua Española - ¿tienes alguna duda sobre nuestra lengua?
http://www.geocities.com/szamora.geo/

La pagina del idioma Español – Grammar! You can also subscribe to La palabra del día
http://www.elcastellano.org/gramatic.html

Lengua y Literatura en Primaria – Some of the links don’t work, but there are quite of few that are still useful – vocabulary;, ortografia
http://adigital.pntic.mec.es/cpr.utrillas/enlaces/lengua.htm

Literacy Center for Early Childhood - colors, alphabet, shapes, etc. in English, Spanish, German and French
http://www.literacycenter.net/

Mathematics links taken from http://adigital.pntic.mec.es/cpr.utrillas/enlaces/matematicas.htm – here are the links that work:
Antiquas pesas y medidas: http://www.arrakis.es/~lavelane/esintro.htm
   Number and word puzzles (English): http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/puzzles/page3.html
   Unidades y medidas: http://scsx01.sc.ehu.es/sbweb/fisica/unidades/unidadMedida.htm
   Unidades Didácticas Matemáticas: http://www.pntic.mec.es/recursos/secundaria/matematicas/tiempo.htm

Multilingual Munchkins – resources, support group
http://www.multilingualmunchkins.com/index.html

Niños saludables – Picture stories with full color photos, and other stuff
http://www.une.edu.ve/kids/aprendo.htm

Online Spanish dictionary – Spanish word with definition in Spanish
http://tradu.scig.uniovi.es/busca.html

Ortografia
http://roble.pntic.mec.es/~msanto1/ortografia/index1.htm

Printable minibooks in Spanish
http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/indexsp.htm

Reading a-z - 30 free books, English and Spanish, more with memberships
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/tour/tour7.html

Reglas de Ortografia
http://www.lenguaje.com/secciones/ortografia/reglasb.htm

Santillana – Banco de actividades
http://www.santillana.es/proyectosEnRed/primaria/htm/banco.htm

Spanish musica, software, libros y videos
http://www.spanishtoys.com

Storyplace – La biblioteca digital de niños; There are stories in English and Spanish that are read to the children online. Also games and activities to go along with the story.
http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp

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Dec. 31, 2007 - Spanish as a second language

Posted by Anonymous

I home school my 3 and 5 year olds. Everything I teach them in English, I teach them in Spanish. It has been extremely successful!! My Father is originally from Argentina and helps me when I need it (he did not teach me Spanish growing up). They have been learning to read (in English) for a while now, using my ABEKA curriculum, but I have no curriculum to teach them how to read and write in Spanish. Do you know of any curriculum that teaches young children how to read and write in Spanish? I have been looking at a curriculum called "Foro abierto para la lectura". It is found on https://www.sraonline.com/products.html?tid=16&sid=30. If you have any other suggestions, for a curriculum to teach kids how to read and write in Spanish I would greatly appreciate it!

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Jan. 3, 2008 - Spanish as second language

Posted by Renai

Thanks for visiting! I explained how I taught my daughter reading in a previous blog entry: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/creativeplay/311486/. The jist of it is, I did not use a curriculum. I used a list I came across in a school of a suggested order of presenting syllables and notecards. I did find a good book and workbook later on. It is called La Pata Pita, written by Cuban writers. It is very inexpensive and can be found at http://www.mibibook.com. If you would like a copy of the list I used, join spanishrecursos (link at right) and download it from the Files section. Again, I did not use a curriculum, and don't find it necessary. Teaching vowels, then one consonant at a time (ma, me, mi, mo, mu) is very effective and pretty much how we did it in the classrooms I worked in.

Although your children learn as a second language, they are young enough to be taught in this manner. The first words they are learning are basic vocabulary anyway- mama, papa, gato, etc. Oh! I forgot, there is also a kinder curriculum in the Files of spanishrecursos that may be helpful in your endeavours.

Good luck! And feel free to come back with more questions or comments.

Edited by Renai on Jan. 3, 2008 at 1:36 PM

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