Curriculum

7th & 8th Grade

iAvancemos! Text & Workbook by McDougal Littell iAvancemos! 1a for Seventh Grade and Avancemos! 1b for Eighth Grade. In McDougal Littell Avancemos! program lessons are based on themes that are relevant to students. Each unit is set in a location that provides the cultural backdrop for real-life themes. This program was designed with middle school learners in mind. They include more practice, more games and more appropriate visuals for middle school students. Grammar presentations are clear and easy to follow. English grammar connection helps students make the link between Spanish and English. The program integrates pair and small group activities, reading and writing skills with cultural information helping students to become successful readers and speakers.

8th Grade Scope & Sequence:

Avancemos! 1b

• Unit Review: This unit reviews most of the vocabulary and grammar in Units 1-4.
• Unit 5 Describing a house; Household items; Furniture. Planning a party; Chores. SER or ESTAR; Ordinal numbers. More irregular verbs; Affirmative TU commands.
• Unit 6 Sports. Staying healthy; Parts of the body. The verb JUGAR; SABER and CONOCER; The personal A. Preterite of regular -AR verbs; Preterite of -CAR, - GAR, -ZAR verbs.
• Unit 7 Sending e-mails; Talking about when events occur. Making a phone call; Places of interest. Preterite of regular -ER and -IR verbs; Affirmative and negative words. Preterite of IR, SER, and HACER; Pronouns after prepositions.
• Unit 8 Daily routines; Vacation plans. Discussing vacation and leisure activities. Reflexive verbs; Present progressive. Indirect object pronouns; Demonstrative adjectives.

7th Grade Scope & Sequence:

Avancemos! 1a

• Preliminary Unit: Greetings; Introductions; Saying where you are from; Numbers from 1-10; Exchanging phone numbers; Days of the week; The weather; Classroom phrases; the Spanish alphabet.
• Unit 1 After-school activities; Snack foods and beverages. Describing yourself and others. Subject pronouns and SER; GUSTAR with an infinitive. Definite and indefinite articles; Noun adjective agreement.
• Unit 2 Daily schedules; Telling time; Numbers from 11-100. Describing classes; Describing location; Expressing feelings. The verb TENER; Present tense of - AR verbs. The verb ESTAR; The verb IR.
• Unit 3 Meals and food; Asking questions. Family; Giving dates; Numbers from 200 to 1,000,000. GUSTAR with nouns; Present tense of -ER and -IR verbs. Possessive adjectives; Comparatives.
• Unit 4 Clothing; Shopping. Places and events; Getting around town; In a restaurant. Stem-changing verbs: E-IE; Direct object pronouns. Stem-changing verbs: O- UE; Stem-changing verbs: E-

6th, 5th & 4th Grade

Students use text and workbook ¿Que tal? & !Hola! a McGraw Hill program. This program has been designed for students beginning their Spanish studies and for those who have previously acquired some knowledge of Spanish. The overall objectives of this program are to develop, reinforce, and refine communicative competency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The students will also acquire a basic understanding and appreciation of the diversity of cultures in the Spanish-speaking world.

6th Scope & Sequence

¿Que tal?

Unit 4

• Name the outside parts of a home.
• Name the rooms of a home.
• Talk about more than one person, place, and thing at a time.
• Talk about where people, places, and things are.
• Compare houses and buildings in different places.

Unit 5

• Talk about your living room and bedroom.
• Learn more ways to describe people, places and things.
• Describe where something is located.
• Learn more about homes in Spanish-speaking countries.

Unit 6

• Name things you find in the kitchen and say where they are.
• Talk about some things you do in the kitchen.
• Talk about things you do in general.
• Learn about cooking and mealtimes in Spanish-speaking countries.

Unit 7

• Talk about household chores.
• Talk about having to do something.
• Discuss things you've just finished doing.
• Learn about housekeeping in Spanish-speaking countries.

5th Grade Scope & Sequence:

¿Que tal?

Unit Review

• Review what you have already learned in Hola!Greet your friends in Spanish, ask how they are, and respond as appropriate.
• Counting, telling time, and giving dates.
• Identify and describe objects.
• Talk about weather and seasons.

UNIT 1

• Body parts
• Tell people what hurts you.
• Ask people if something hurts them.

UNIT 2

• Describe clothes
• Talk about how your clothes look and fit.
• Talk about clothes you are going to buy.
• Tell to whom things belong.
• Read about shopping and traditional clothing in Spanish-speaking countries.

UNIT 3

• Talk about what you and others look like.
• Talk about your personality and other people's .
• Compare two people, places, or things.
• Read about languages other than Spanish that are spoken in Latin America and Spain.

4th Grade Scope & Sequence:

¡Hola!

BIENVENIDOS!

• Learn how to say hello and good-bye.
• Ask people their names and introduce yourself.
• Talk about how you feel.
• Name different objects and people in your classroom.
• Use numbers to do everyday things.
• Learn about compound names in Spanish.

UNIT 1

• Name classroom objects and school supplies.
• Talk about people or things.
• Ask about what people have.
• Learn about schools and classrooms in Spanish-speaking countries.
• Compare flags of different countries.

UNIT 2

• Learn the names of colors and shapes.
• Identify different animals.
• Describe your favorite animals.
• Find out about some animals from the Caribbean and South America.

UNIT 3

• Learn the days of the week.
• Talk about going places.
• Talk about where you go on different days of the week.

UNIT 4

• Talk about your classes.
• Talk about other places in your school.
• Talk about what you are going to do.
• Talk about school activities.

Kinder - 3rd Grade

!VIVA EL ESPANOL!

Viva el Espanol! Learning Systems A & B concentrates on many important factors in teaching Spanish to elementary school children. The following features are integrated throughout the program.

K-3rd Grade Scope & Sequence:

!VIVA EL ESPANOL!

• Focus on Children An effective way of motivating children in the learning of foreign language is to make the child's environment the center of communication.
• The vocabulary and activities introduced in !Viva el espanol! deal with the child's surroundings, such as the classroom, friends, home, family and the community.
• The child also learns vocabulary related to fun activities, and practices and reviews the vocabulary through games, songs, conversations with the puppet, pantomime, and role playing activities that combine speaking skills, physical movement, and creative drama techniques.
• Vocabulary and Structures in !Viva el espanol! the vocabulary words and structures in each lesson have been carefully planned to introduce the basic words that children will use in their immediate surroundings and gradually spiral outward to encompass the community.
• Cultural Accent !Viva el espanol! introduces the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world through material contained in La cultura y tu. The objective is to expose children, in the simplest way, to the history and the culture of the Spanish- speaking people.
• Communication Aid; Hand Puppet One essential component provided in the !Viva el espanol! Systems is a hand puppet. The hand puppet is used effectively to develop communication skills. The hand puppet is also very easy for the children to manipulate. Because children can accept the puppet as a "friend" more quickly, communication emerges faster and spontaneously.