Reading Level Tool

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This tool allows educators to paste or type in text to receive a Lexile range and view text characteristics along with challenging words and their definitions. The Lexile Analyzer measures the complexity of the text by analyzing characteristics such as sentence length and word frequency.

Lapiz de ele

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This site provides beautifully made resources, materials, and ideas to supplement any Spanish classroom.


Marco ELE

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A resource for teachers that provides recent articles about Spanish language instruction as well as great activities for immediate use in the classroom.

Promote Language

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This site, developed by a team who regularly presents at the ACTFL conference, provides fully developed activities for reading, writing, and speaking tasks. The activities are free to download and modify.

Half a Crossword

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Just as the name would imply, this site allows you to make a crossword with half the words filled in. Turn your crosswords into interpersonal, communicative activities!

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The site offers words that are interpreted differently by Spanish-speaking countries and gives each countries definition or interpretation.

Spanish Language and Culture

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This site is a wonderful resource to practice grammar structures with students. There are a wide variety of exercises offering a great context.

Free Templates for Google Slides

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Make your Google Slides presentations so much more eye-catching and exciting using these free templates. 

Spanish 4 Teachers

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This site provides many Spanish literature resources such as: novels, poems, plays, essays, and history of Spanish literature.

Cortos de metraje

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This site provides a large collection of movie shorts in Spanish. Caution--not appropriate for direct student use.

Bingo Baker

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Find and customize one of the thousands of ready-made bingo cards, or use the simple bingo card generator to create your own. Then print as many cards as you need. You can even play virtual bingo using a computer, smartphone or tablet. It's fast and easy. 

Project Zero's Thinking Routines

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Harvard Graduate School has put together this "toolbox" with sets of questions and brief sequences of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. The objective is to deepen students' thinking and to help make that thinking visible to both the teacher and the students.