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1. Mi Mundo en Palabras (My World in Words): Interactive Website for Elementary Spanish Learners. Mi Mundo en Palabras is an interactive website for children ages 7-9 years who are beginning to learn Spanish. It is available at 2. Make Beliefs Comix: Build Your Own Comic Strips in English and Spanish For fun games in Spanishhttp://www.gamequarium.com/spanishvocab.html For translation (you will need to choose language)¿Sab̀an Ustedes? Did you know?Learning a second language goes beyond giving children the opportunity to communicate with and appreciate people from other cultures. Research shows it also helps them in other areas. For example, Basic Skills Revisited: The Effects of Foreign Language Instruction on Reading, Math and Language Arts was conducted in 1997 by P.W. Armstrong and J. D. Rogers. This carefully constructed study demonstrated that third graders who were taught Spanish for thirty minutes, three times per week showed statistically significant gains in their Metropolitan Achievement Test scores in the areas of math and language after only one semester of study. This study verifies two earlier studies that showed that foreign language instruction either had no detrimental effect on basic skills or a positive effect on students achievement in basic skill areas. The result of this study are particularly interesting since one class in the experimental group had actually received one and one-half fewer hours of math instruction per week, yet still outperformed the students in the control classes in math (Learning Languages, Spring 20-31). 20 Ways for Highly Motivated Students Like Everyone at Woods to Practice their Spanish Over the Summer by Erica KinshellaPretend your little brother or sister can only understand Spanish. Go to Mexican restaurants and order in Spanish. Go to Mexico. Check out the Spanish section at your local library. Watch movies in Spanish. Use a Spanish dictionary. Learn a new word every day in Spanish. Play games on the internet in Spanish. Play card games in Spanish. Well, just play all games in Spanish. Talk to your parents about housing an exchange student from a Spanish-speaking country. Teach your dog Spanish. Teach your parents Spanish. Count your money in Spanish. Label everything you possibly can in Spanish. Talk in Spanish. Write in Spanish. Read in Spanish. Think in Spanish. Dream in Spanish. |