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This workbook To help in the language learning process,

we’ve developed this workbook with the
Spanish stories we will use thorough out the
year. This workbook is not “homework,” rath-

er a guide to help in the language acqui-
sition process. Depending on your child’s
level, this workbook will be used differently
by each family. Some students will enjoy col-

oring in the pages, and looking at the pic-
tures to be reminded 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 cov-

er in class. This workbook is designed to be
used over the course of two semesters.

Why stories?

According to Stephen Krashen, a world re-
nowned and respected linguist and author,
language is learned through meaningful

and comprehensible input. In other words, a
language is learned through understanding
messages. Stories allow for a lot of compre-

hensible input, which promotes long term re-
tention. 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 language to be learned in
“chunks” and important phrases with can
then be easily used in conversation.