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This workbook To help in the language learning process, we’ve devel-

oped this workbook with the Spanish stories we will use
thorough out the year. This workbook is not “homework,”
rather a guide to help in the language acquisition pro-
2 cess. Depending on your child’s level, this workbook will
be used differently by each family. Some students will en-
joy coloring in the pages, and looking at the pictures to
be reminded of words and phrases they’ve learned. Other
students will actually read the stories in Spanish and com-
plete the short activities on the bottom on each page.
Most of these stories will be done in class, however there
are some extra stories for additional practice that we will
not cover in class. This workbook is designed to be used
over the course of two semesters.

Advance and Basic activities

You will notice both “BASIC” and “ADVANCED” activities throughout the book. Depending on your
child’s level, we will help to choose which activities are best for them.
To help in the lenguage learning process, we’ve developed this workbook with the Spanish stories
we will use thorough out the year. This workbook is not “homework”, rather a guide to help in the
language acquisition process. Depending on your child’s level, this workbook will be used differently
by each family. Some students will enjoy coloring in the pages, and looking at the pictures to be re-
minded of words and phrases they’’ve learned. Other students will actually read the stories in Spanish
and complete the short activities on the bottom on each page. Most of these stories will be done
in class, however there are some extra stories for additional practice that we will not cover in class.

Why stories?

According to Stephen Krashen, a world renowned and re-
spected linguist and author, language is learned through
meaningful and comprehensible input. In other words, a lan-
guage is learned through understanding messages. Stories al-
low for a lot of comprehensible input, which promotes long term
retention. Stories use both sides of the brain and kids have an
emotional response to a silly story, and therefore are learning
the second language sub- consciously. This also allows for lan-
guage to be learned in “chunks” and important phrases with
can then be easily used in conversation.