How to Write Lesson Plans

The biggest challenge when teaching vocabulary is having enough activities to provide students with sufficient language in context. In this post, I’ll show you how I teach the clothes and colors [...]

The task is the persuasive essay, now called the argumentative essay. You can see that everything I need for today’s lesson is in the Day 49 folder, color-coded by task (red for lesson plan, [...]

Finally! Here is the World Language Lesson Plan Check List I’ve been promising you.  Click HERE to access it.  Then, we’ll talk about how to plan a great closure activity.

This is the seventh in a series of eight posts about How to Write Effective World Language Lesson Plans.  In this post, we will be discussing how to choose effective practice activities, the, [...]

Writing Effective World Lesson Plans- Part V Do you know how to check for understanding?  I was sure I did, so when my principal told me she not only wanted me to attend the lesson-planning [...]

How do you teach world languages effectively? In the previous posts, we discussed the important elements of effective World Language lesson plans: identifying the learning goal, building good [...]

What is the Best Way to Teach Spanish? How do you write a Spanish lesson plan? A French lesson plan? Is there a Spanish Lesson Plan Template? (FREE World Language Lesson Plan Template and other [...]

HOW DO YOU WRITE A SPANISH OR FRENCH LESSON PLAN FOR MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL? THIS component is crucial if you want to write effective lesson plans: TENSION Do you have enough tension in your [...]

Would you like to know how to write effective lesson plans? Writing World Language lesson plans can be overwhelming at times. At the end of the day when my brain is most fried, I not only have to [...]