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Teacher Resources
Teacher’s “Travel Kit” has all the tools to help
prepare students for their cultural adventures!
Teacher’s Guide
Your step-by-step guide to instruction includes:
• Teacher-friendly weekly plans with flexible pacing
for a variety of classroom settings.
• Instructional strategies and teaching techniques
to address the needs of beginning students and
advanced/heritage speakers.
• Lesson plans that address a variety of cultural
vocabulary and skills (comprehension, phonics,
sentence structure, and grammar imbedded in
language functions).
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Unit Objectives
the end of this unit, studentswill be able to
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greet and say goodbye by imagining that
they visit México and meet children their
own age.
•
name family members by studying a family
tree and completing one for their own
family.
•
introduce themselves to new friends by
imagining different scenarios and engaging
in a dialogue with their classmates.
•
describe themselves,places,people, and
ngs by using adjectives in conversations
d in writing.
Discuss the Big Idea
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this unit, students learn about the country
México, and how people in the Spanish-
eaking world greet and say goodbye
to each other. Students also learn the names
for family members,how they interact
with each other and with friends, and how
places,people, and things are described.
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Display a map of NorthAmerica or have
students look at the map in their books.
Help them identify México and explain that
it is a country that borders the United States
to the south.Have volunteers share what
they know about México.
•
Point out that México is one of many
countries where Spanish is spoken.Tell
students that they will learn about seven
other Spanish-speaking countries in other
units of this book.
•
Explain to students that by their learning
Spanish, they will be able to speak to about
330 million more people in the world!
Preview the Unit
Saludos y despedidas
Point to the top image on page 10 and te
plaza, or square, in the downtown area
with students.Then have them go back
México,D.F. (Mexico City).Explain that
will meet their Mexican friends.
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Point to the bottom image on page 11 and
tell students that it shows a view of Cancún,
a popular beach city in México.Have students
go back to the map and point out Cancún for
them.Explain that this week they will learn
how to describe Cancún as well as ot
places and people.
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Unit Objectives
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Big Idea
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Essential Questions for each week
Teacher’s Guide Unit Opener
Integrated Resources!
Point-of-use icons
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Essential Questions
You may pose the following essen
questions at the beginning of each
week.Explain to students that they
be able to answer them at the end of
each week.
Week 1
¿Cómonos saludamos ynos
despedimos en español?
How do
we greet and say goodbye to eac
other in Spanish?
Week 2
¿Quiénes son losmiembrosde
una familia?
What are the names
for family members?
Week 3
¿Cómo se presentan losamigos?
How do friends introduce each
other?
Week 4
¿Cómo sonalgunos lugares,
personas y cosas?
What do some
places,people, and things look
like?
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