Trinity Episcopal School Fourth Grade Spanish Curriculum Trinity believes that equipping our students to communicate successfully in a diverse society allows them to value an interconnected global community. First Trimester Second Trimester Third Trimester Listening and Speaking: Engaging students in conversation with classmates and with the teacher; Practice of circumlocution, critical thinking, and taking risks; Pronunciation •
Total Physical Response •
Cognates to connect English and Spanish •
Questions to support conversational fluency: who, what, when, where, how, how many •
Partner, small-­‐, and whole-­‐group practice to support voice inflection, pronunciation, and conversational fluency •
Songs •
Word games •
Oral presentations Reading and Writing: Reading for fluency and spelling rules; Reading for content; Writing sentences •
Cloze activities to reinforce vocabulary and grammar •
Spelling, accents, capitalization •
Study skills in using resources to check spelling Vocabulary •
Places in the city •
Addresses •
Adjectives to describe places in the city •
Prepositions of location Grammar •
Noun-­‐adjective agreement rd
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Estar to describe location in 3 person plural •
Forming and answering questions Culture •
Latin American countries and geography •
Famous Hispanic people •
Mexican Independence Day •
Day of the Dead Listening and Speaking: Engaging students in conversation with classmates and with the teacher; Practice of circumlocution, critical thinking, and taking risks; Pronunciation •
Total Physical Response •
Cognates to connect English and Spanish •
Questions to support conversational fluency: who, what, when, where, how, how many •
Partner, small-­‐, and whole-­‐group practice to support voice inflection, pronunciation, and conversational fluency •
Songs •
Word games •
Oral presentations Reading and Writing: Reading for fluency and spelling rules; Reading for content; Writing sentences •
Cloze activities to reinforce vocabulary and grammar •
Spelling, accents, capitalization •
Study skills in using resources to check spelling Vocabulary •
Classroom objects •
Emotions Grammar •
Subject pronouns •
Conjugation of estar for all pronouns •
Omitting pronouns •
Noun-­‐adjective agreement Culture •
Latin American countries and geography •
Famous Hispanic people •
Christmas in Mexico Listening and Speaking: Engaging students in conversation with classmates and with the teacher; Practice of circumlocution, critical thinking, and taking risks; Pronunciation •
Total Physical Response •
Cognates to connect English and Spanish •
Questions to support conversational fluency: who, what, when, where, how, how many •
Partner, small-­‐, and whole-­‐group practice to support voice inflection, pronunciation, and conversational fluency •
Songs •
Word games •
Oral presentations Reading and Writing: Reading for fluency and spelling rules; Reading for content; Writing sentences •
Cloze activities to reinforce vocabulary and grammar •
Spelling, accents, capitalization •
Study skills in using resources to check spelling Vocabulary •
Hair •
Expressing age •
Extended family members Grammar •
Subject pronouns •
Conjugation of ser for all pronouns •
Conjugation of tener for all pronouns •
Conjugation of llamarse for all pronouns •
Noun-­‐adjective agreement Culture •
Latin American countries and geography •
Famous Hispanic people •
Cinco de Mayo