Every day · SpanishTen daily lines, every grade K–12 — and every band now has its rooms open as well. Pick the grade.K123456789–1011–12
Grades K–2 — the sound and the name
Spanish said out loud, tied to things a child can point at. Five vowels that never change, the numbers and the colors, and the little word that comes with every name. Nothing here is a rule to recite — it is a pattern to notice.
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The courseSpanish, Grades K–2
4 units, 8 chapters, numbered lessons — each with a reading, key words, a source or the numbers, and three checks. Chapter reviews, unit tests, a word match and a writing task.
Course contents
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Sounds of Spanish
Sounds
Five Vowels, Five Sounds; Special Letters: h, ll, ñ, rr.
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Colors and Numbers
Numbers
Counting from Cero to Veinte; Colors All Around.
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El and La: Naming Things
Nouns
My Family and My Pets; Things in My Room and School.
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One and Many, Big and Little
Describing
More Than One; Big, Little, Happy, Sad.
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Five Vowels That Never Change
a says ah, e says eh, i says ee, o says oh, u says oo — one sound each, forever. The silent h, the ll that says y, the ñ, and saying a Spanish word before you know what it means.
Colors and Counting to Twenty
Cero to veinte, and why sixteen to nineteen are built out of diez rather than memorized. The colors, ¿cuántos?, ¿de qué color es?, and the color word that comes after the thing.
El and La — Naming What Is Here
Every Spanish name brings a little word with it. El, la, un and una, the family, the animals and the things in a room, the -o and -a hint, and the two words that break it.
One and Many, Big and Little
Make it plural and TWO words change, not one. The -s, -es and -z endings, and the describing word that goes after the name and copies it.
Grades 3–5 — the whole thought
Whole thoughts, and then whole days. Someone and something they do; the two verbs English hides behind one am; the six words that ask about any piece of a sentence; and the order words that turn four true sentences into a morning. Every room here is built out of sentences the band before it already gave you.
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The courseSpanish, Grades 3–5
4 units, 8 chapters, numbered lessons — each with a reading, key words, a source or the numbers, and three checks. Chapter reviews, unit tests, a word match and a writing task.
Course contents
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A Whole Thought in Spanish
Sentences
Who Does What; Saying No and Asking Yes-or-No.
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Soy and Estoy
Two Kinds of Am
Ser: Who and What I Am; Estar: How and Where I Am.
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Who, Where, When, Why
Questions
The Question Words; Interviews and Answers.
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First, Then, Last: Telling a Day
Sequencing
My Day in Order; Writing a Short Story.
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A Whole Thought in Spanish
Someone, and something they do — the two pieces every Spanish sentence needs. The verb ending that already says who, why yo and tú are usually left out, and the words that hang on the end of a thought without changing it.
Soy and Estoy — Who I Am, How I Am
English has one am and Spanish has two. Which one you need is settled by the question the sentence answers — who or what, against how or where — not by guessing how long something lasts.
Who, Where, When, Why
Six little words let you ask about any piece of any sentence. The accent that marks a word as asking, the word-verb-who order a Spanish question takes, and the -er and -ir verbs that turn out to be one set of endings.
First, Then, Last — Telling a Day
Four sentences you can already write, four little words in front of them, and you can tell somebody your whole day. The parts of the day, the days of the week in lower case, and the one place a verb goes back to its plain form.
Grades 6–8 — the first year of Spanish
Enough Spanish to meet someone, say the time, name what is in the room and describe a person. Each unit starts from nothing and assumes no Spanish at home.
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The courseSpanish, Grades 6–8
4 units, 8 chapters, numbered lessons — each with a reading, key words, a source or the numbers, and three checks. Chapter reviews, unit tests, a word match and a writing task.
Course contents
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Greetings and Introductions
Meeting People
Hola and Hasta Luego; The Alphabet, Names and Origins.
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Numbers, Time and Dates
Numbers and Time
Numbers to a Thousand; The Clock and the Calendar.
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The Classroom: Nouns and Articles
Nouns
Gender and Number; Hay, Necesito and Classroom Talk.
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Ser, Estar and Describing People
Description
Two Verbs for To Be; Adjective Agreement and Description.
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Greetings and Introductions
Hola through hasta luego, your name and where you are from, the sounds of the alphabet, and when a student must say usted.
Numbers, Time and Dates
Zero to a thousand, the clock, the days and months, the date written day-first, your age with tener, and the weather with hacer.
The Classroom — Nouns and Articles
Every noun has a gender: el and la, un and una, the plurals, the exceptions worth knowing, and the questions to ask a teacher in Spanish.
Ser, Estar and Describing People
Two verbs for one English word. Who someone is against how someone is, adjective agreement, and the pairs that change meaning.
Grades 9–10 — verbs that carry a conversation
The present tense in all three families, the verbs that bend in the middle, gustar working backwards, and the two past tenses that tell a story together.
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The courseSpanish, Grades 9–10
4 units, 8 chapters, numbered lessons — each with a reading, key words, a source or the numbers, and three checks. Chapter reviews, unit tests, a word match and a writing task.
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The Present Tense
Present Tense
Regular -ar, -er and -ir Verbs; Yo-Irregulars and Ir a.
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Tener, Gustar and Stem Changes
Verb Patterns
Boot Verbs and Tener Expressions; Gustar and Its Family.
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The Preterite: What Happened
Past Tense
Regular Preterite Endings; Irregular Preterites.
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The Imperfect and Telling a Story
Narration
The Imperfect: When I Was Little; Preterite and Imperfect Together.
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The Present Tense
The -ar, -er and -ir endings, the yo-irregulars, ir a plus an infinitive, and why Spanish usually drops the pronoun.
Tener, Gustar and Stem Changes
The tener expressions, the boot verbs e→ie, o→ue and e→i, and the backwards family: me gusta, me gustan, me encanta, me duele.
The Preterite — Telling What Happened
The finished past: two sets of endings, the accent that changes hablo into habló, the spelling changes and the irregular stems.
The Imperfect and Telling a Story
Three irregulars in the whole tense. The imperfect paints the scene, the preterite moves the plot, and the interruption uses both.
Grades 11–12 — saying what you mean
Pronouns and commands, the mood Spanish uses for what is wished rather than reported, the world that speaks the language, and a capstone the student presents and defends.
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The courseSpanish, Grades 11–12
4 units, 8 chapters, numbered lessons — each with a reading, key words, a source or the numbers, and three checks. Chapter reviews, unit tests, a word match and a writing task.
Course contents
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Pronouns, Reflexives and Commands
Pronouns
Object Pronouns and Reflexives; Commands.
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The Subjunctive
Mood
What the Subjunctive Is; Doubt, Emotion and the Past Subjunctive.
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The Spanish-Speaking World and Register
Cultures
Where Spanish Is Spoken; Formal and Informal Register.
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Capstone: Present and Defend
Capstone
Reviewing the Whole Sequence; The Presentation.
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Pronouns, Reflexives and Commands
Where a pronoun goes and the accent that appears when it attaches, the daily routine in reflexive verbs, and the commands a room actually uses.
The Subjunctive
Mood, not tense. Two clauses joined by que, a trigger in the first, and the forms that commands already taught you.
The Spanish-Speaking World and Register
Where Spanish is spoken and how it varies — vos, vosotros, guagua and camión — plus formal and informal writing, and the false friends.
Capstone — Present and Defend
The whole sequence reviewed, then a presentation: a thesis, three supports, the connectors that hold it together, and a defense in Spanish.
The engines
Every activity here is one of these six kinds, and all six work now. Each unit page has study cards and a quiz; its Workshop tab has four more.
Study cards, hints and a practice quiz
Open · every unit pageTwenty-four cards at three levels, a hints sheet with the charts and the traps, and a quiz that names the mistake behind every wrong answer.
Label the diagram
Open · the Workshop tabDrag a word onto the part it names — a conjugation grid, the boot, a sentence strip, the four places a pronoun can stand.
Put it in order
Open · the Workshop tabA conversation, a school day, a morning routine or a story, out of order until the student puts it right.
Sort into bins
Open · the Workshop tabSer or estar. Tú or usted. Preterite or imperfect. Subjunctive or indicative. The choice the whole unit turns on, fourteen times.
Tag a text line by line
Open · the Workshop tabA paragraph, a letter or a message, tagged sentence by sentence for what each one is doing.
Claim, evidence, reasoning
Open · the Workshop tabWrite the grammar argument out: why this verb, why this accent, why this register — with sentence starters and a model answer.
For the teacher
<b>This page is a map.</b> It saves nothing about a student and sends nothing anywhere. Each door opens a unit page; a finished activity sends its one summary row to your Sheet, under the name the student typed, and nothing else ever leaves the device.
<b>Hand out one band.</b> Add the band to the address and the page opens there: <b>/spanish#6-8</b>. Every unit has a short address too — <b>Show on the board</b> prints it large enough for the back row.
<b>Built for a resource room.</b> Short sentences, every term defined where it first appears, three levels on every quiz, and the whole page in Spanish at one tap for a family reading it at home.