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Welcome to leemosjuntos. I am a middle school Spanish teacher in Texas. I teach conversational Spanish. My curriculum is not appropriate for native speakers. Despite that being made clear in the catalog, I noticed a trend of increasing numbers of native speakers in my level 1 class.
This bothered me on many levels until in 2008 I determined to develop a curriculum that I could use for them. One that they could follow while sitting in my conversational Spanish class. One that was mostly self directed because my time is focused on conversational Spanish.
I decided that a self directed reading program would meet my needs. About half way through the year I realized that the hundreds of hours I had spent developing the materials for the program could be of benefit to other teachers in my position. So I created this blog. I am a great Spanish teacher, but a little web and blog challenged.
Inside this blog you will find comprehension packets for over 40 books. The books I use range from 1.9 to 7.0 grade levels. The book packets are organized by series. I have Junie B Jones, Magic Treehouse, Goosebumps, Twilight, Lightening Thief, Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Hunger Games and others.
My students read, keep a reading log, and complete comprehension packets.
I have posts here on many topics. The categories include: getting started, lessons learned and others.
Prior to being recruited into teaching I worked in Human Resources where I hired and fired people. Based on my experience in private industry, I truly believe that teaching my native speaking students to read and write in Spanish is the greatest favor I could do for them.
Wow….this is exactly the type of information I was looking for. I have many heritage speakers in my basic Spanish class and my instinct has been to get them reading and writing. Your blog and resources are a gift. Thank you, thank you.
One more question. Any chance I could see what your reading log looks like?
http://leemosjuntos.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/sept-2009-reading-log/reading-log-new-2/
That is the link to the page from where you can find the link to the reading log. It is a bear to find in the blog! Sorry!
Descubrí tu blog y me parece maravilloso, actualmente estoy dirigiendo un taller de lectura para niños de bajos recursos económicos en la ciudad de México y el material que muestras es muy interesante para desarrollar lectura de comprensión. Muchas Gracias
L.de Alvarez
Me alegre oírlo. Ojalá que sea de alguna ayuda. Perdona los errores. Hice las tareas con mucha prisa.