23 Activities to Liven Up Your World Language Classroom Book

Balloon Bounce, Beach Ball Skee-ball®, Bucket Sort, Grab and Chat, Hot Seat, Popcorn Challenge, and many more! Improve student performance using games and fun activities that work with any lesson you are struggling to reinforce. Twenty-three different game activities to get kids up and moving around while perfecting that lesson or topic. Game materials are not included, but are basic things that almost every teacher has or can borrow. Each activity features a supply list, the amount of setup required, the degree of student activity, directions, and suggestions on how to adapt it to varying proficiency levels. Plus, there are options and tips to help with classroom management. As a bonus, each chapter includes a QR code—just scan it to watch a classroom video example of the activity in action!

©2019. English. All levels. Middle school, high school. Reproducible. 62 full-color pages.

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Print Book: Spiral-bound, 8.5 x 11 inches.

About the Authors

Jodie Hogan has been a Spanish professor at a large community college in Maryland since 2014. She taught Spanish at the high-school level for 14 years prior to making the move to college. Jodie specializes in utilizing kinesthetic activities to engage her students as they journey toward proficiency. She believes that students deserve to be engaged in a novel way in every lesson. Like most language teachers, she loves to travel. Jodie most enjoyed the cultural experiences she had in Peru, Spain, Costa Rica, and India.

Kimberly Spence has been a Spanish teacher in a large public high school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for 17 years. She pursues her passion of 100% engagement through collaborative learning throughout various levels of Spanish in her classroom. As department chair, she also enjoys developing that passion in the teachers within her department. Kim loves to take her students traveling. Her recent adventures include Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, and Iceland.