Spanish 1 Observation

I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives, and families.
I choose to use the first 4 sections of reading for this lesson. A challenge in Spanish 1 is to keep high student engaged and interested when working with simple ideas and text. To begin the lesson, I spend some time going over words and ways to ask for the information in Spanish to warm the student sup. I then questioned them to what information they want to know when they meet a new student at …show more content…
Once we finished the reading, I picked up the books before I began the translation back to Spanish. I hadn’t planned to do this, I had initially planned to let them use their books but they had done well and I could tell they were feeling confident, so I wanted to keep that momentum and let them see how much they really knew and could do.
I then gave them the directive to continue to work in pairs and translate the English back to Spanish on a second organizer that I handed out. After a moment of realization and asking for the books back, they got busy. I could hear them in the pairs trying to pronounce the words in Spanish correctly and then negotiate the spelling. I stopped and helped a couple pairs by pointed at the vowel chart on the board, as they tried to write out the word as they were saying it. This is exactly the way to learn