Before TPRUsing m

ovement to teach phonem

ic awareness and

decoding in SpanishLynn Peate, M

ALynn.Peate@

smeds.org

St. Mary’s Episcopal Day School

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where a French student attem

pts to read in French, but uses all English pronunciation rules.

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•Vine of a student trying to repeat after his Spanish teacher.

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This slide was a video of m

e leading my students as they practice their vow

el sounds. We

work on individual vow

els, me calling them

out, them repeating and show

ing them to m

e w

ith their arms, and then m

e writing them

on the board and them saying and show

ing them

. They are standing up and working as a group. The video ends w

ith them choosing

a consonant, D, practicing ‘DA, DE, DI, DO, DU’ and then singing “Las vocalesenespañol.”

This is a video of my students reading syllables out loud as I point to them

on the board.

This was a video of m

y student pronouncing “invierno.” He is using his arms for each vow

el as he says it.

This was a video of several of m

y students writing on the board. I am

dictating vowels, syllables

and words to them

. One student w

rites “A” for “E”, but is easily corrected.

Photo of fifth graders at the board. They are standing next to words that I dictated.

Another photo of the fifth graders at the board. “Tertulia” is misspelled, but later gets corrected.

This was a video of m

y fifth graders practicing “ar” verbs. We w

armed up vow

els, reviewed several w

ords, review

ed stems and endings using our arm

s for each vowel and then divided syllables, “ha/blo” as opposed to

“habl/o.”

This was a video of an activity w

here students were tossing a ball to a partner across the room

(in two facing

lines), saying a conjugated verb (using their arms in the vow

el positions). The recipient, repeated the word

and motions, and then said w

hat the word m

eant before passing the ball along to the next person. They used traditional TPR to help each other w

ith translations.

This was a video of a fourth grader reading a short paragraph he w

rote about his favorite season and activities he likes to do then. It w

as the end goal with the unit on the calendar and seasons.

This was a video of a fourth grader at the end of the year last year reading a paragraph he w

rote about his favorite m

eal. His pronunciation is good, and he seems very com

fortable with it.

This was a video of a fourth grade girl answ

ering a question about her classmate’s paragraph on his favorite m

eal. She says “A T. le gusta

beberaguay losrefrescos,” but m

ispronounces “refrescos” because it sounds like “refreshments.” W

e slow

down the w

ord and she uses her arms to help w

ith the vowels, and she sounds it out correctly.

This was a video of our fifth grade’s end of the year com

petition. It is quiz-bowl style, and the parents and low

er grades are invited. In this video a student answ

ers the question, “¿Cuálesla forma ‘nosotros’ del verbo

‘trabajar’?”

In this video of our competition, a student translates a sentence from

English to Spanish.

In this video a student at the competition is reading a sentence out loud in Spanish. She has never

seen the sentence, and it is actually from a m

ore advanced curriculum.

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•Video from an Ellen episode w

here she tries to learn some Spanish.

This was a video of three random

students (one from the Latin class) learning to say “parangaricutirim

icuaro.”

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Before TPRUsing m

ovement to teach phonem

ic awareness and

decoding in SpanishLynn Peate, M

ALynn.Peate@

smeds.org

St. Mary’s Episcopal Day School