The Spanish Experiment offers a varied set of resources for language learners of Spanish including short children's stories, basic grammar information, and online lessons.

Cobb County is excited to participate again this year in JumpStart's "Read for the Record".  If you are not aware of the initiative, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record brings together millions of adults and children around the world each year to read the same book on the same day in order to raise awareness about the critical importance of early literacy and access to high-quality books.  

In support of literacy in multiple languages, our World Languages through our DLI school teams will be reading "Evelyn Del Rey Se Muda" to our students in our DLI Spanish program. 

Click on the links below to learn more about the program and to access classroom and familiy resources in English and Spanish.

Read for the Record Activities:

Árbol ABC is a site that offers multiple resources in Spanish appropriate for elementary school level.  Some of these resources include: games, songs, riddles, stories, coloring sheets, etc. 

The site allows you to add the activities to your Google Classroom..

"Radio Ambulante es un podcast, distribuido por NPR, que cuenta historias latinoamericanas provenientes de todos los países de habla hispana, incluyendo Estados Unidos. Buscamos llevar la estética de la buena crónica de prensa escrita a la radio. Trabajamos con una talentosa comunidad de cronistas de radio en distintas partes del continente, aprovechando los avances tecnológicos para producir, distribuir, e intercambiar historias.

En 2014, Radio Ambulante ganó el premio de periodismo Gabriel García Márquez en la categoría de Innovación."

Source: Radio Ambulante, NPR

 The milestones trackerfrom the CDC offers a free child development app in Spanish where parents can track various milestones of the develompent of their children.

The site also a couple of digital books families can use to practice the skills with kids. 

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/spanish/actearly/spanish-milestones-app.html 

The Fable Cottage: Enjoy well known children's stories in various languages (English, French, Spanish, and Italian). You can listen or read the story! Some of the titles are:

• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Cinderella
• The three Billy Goats Gruff
• Hansel and Gretel

offers a sample of free books for kids is various languages accessible online. The languages available are: English, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.

"This textbook provides historical information, narrative techniques, lists of characters, themes and key words before they begin to read each chapter. While reading, vocabulary glossed in comprehensible Spanish appears in the margin opposite challenging words. Cultural references and proverbs from the work facilitate a deeper understanding. Each chapter contains checks for understanding and ends with activities to build vocabulary."

Source: Español Abierto at University of Austin - Recorridos Project

Cobb County AP Courses follow the course outline from College Board. Follow the links below to find detailed information and resources about the course.

• Student and Parent course information and resources
• Teacher and administrator course information and resources

Cobb County AP Courses follow the course outline from College Board. Follow the links below to find detailed information and resources about the course.

• Student and Parent course information and resources
• Teacher and administrator course information and resources

 "La Fundación del Español Urgente —Fundéu BBVA— es una institución sin ánimo de lucro que tiene como principal objetivo impulsar el buen uso del español en los medios de comunicación. Nacida en el año 2005 fruto de un acuerdo entre la Agencia Efe y el banco BBVA, trabaja asesorada por la Real Academia Española.

Mediante recomendaciones diarias y respuestas a las consultas que recibimos, pretendemos ser una herramienta que ayude a todos aquellos que utilizan el idioma en su actividad diaria en los medios de comunicación, las redes sociales, las nuevas plataformas digitales…"

Fuente: www.Fundéu.es

Free SmithsonianTeacher tools to use in the classrooms.

• Daily AP news articles
• Lexile® leveled for K-12
• Self-scoring quizzes customized by Lexile® level
• Critical thinking questions
• Student commenting
• Espanol AP articles
• Weekly lesson plans
• Weekly video
• Weekend "Monday Morning Ready" newsletter as prep for the week ahead

DocuTubees una biblioteca gratis en linea de videos, documentales, y peliculas gratis. La biblioteca contiene videos en las areas de Ciencia y Tecnología, Deportes, Historia, Música, Naturaleza y Animales, y otros.

The language proficiency targets indicate what students are expected to do with the language at the end of each course in terms of producing language (speaking and writing), understanding language (listening and reading), and interacting with others in the language. Proficiency targets for each language are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines. 

Click on each of the headings for details on the target skills for each level. 

Level	Interpersonal Communication	Presentational Mode		Interpretive Mode		Intercultural Communication
		Presentational Speaking	Presentational Writing	Interpretive Listening	Interpretive  Reading
		K-5th Grade DLI - Bilingual	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid		Intermediate  High	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate  (-)
		6th Grade	Novice Low	Novice Low	Novice Low		Novice Low	Novice  Mid	Novice
7th Grade	Novice Mid	Novice Mid	Novice Mid	Novice  Mid	Novice High	Novice
Level I	Novice High	Novice High	Novice High	Novice High	Intermediate  Low	Novice
Level II	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate  (-)
Level III	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate (-)
Level IV	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate High (-)	Intermediate
Level V - VIII AP Language	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High to Advanced Low	Advanced
Native Speakers I	Intermediate High (-)	Intermediate High (-)	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  High	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate (-)
Native Speakers II	Advanced Low (-)	Advanced Low (-)	Intermediate  High (-)	Advanced Low (-)	Intermediate  High (-)	Intermediate
Native Speakers III	Advanced Low	Advanced Low	Intermediate  High	Advanced Low	Intermediate  High	Advanced (-)

Learn more about ACTFL's Language Proficiency Guidelines and the NCSSFL-ACTFL Global CAN-DO Benchmark Statements.

At the Plaza Santillana Spanish Classroom Blog you will find resources specifically geared towards:

• Spanish Elementary, Spanish Middle School and Spanish High School
• Professional Development for Spanish Teachers
• Common Core State Standards
• Classroom Activities and much more!

Source: http://www.santillanausa.com/ 

"The purpose of the Spanish in Texas project is to profile Spanish as it is spoken throughout Texas today and to provide open learning tools that allow students, teachers, and the general public to explore Spanish language variation. A central goal of the project is to encourage users to view local varieties of Spanish and their speakers as important resources for learning about language and culture.

Spanish in Texas is part of the 2010-2014 program of the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), a National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Texas at Austin." Source: http://spanishintexas.org/ 

Some of the tools this project offers are Spanish Grammar in Context, Spanish in Texas Corpus, and SpinTX, 

Heritage Spanish is a space for Spanish instructors who want to collaborate, share, and communicate with others about heritage language teaching and learning. Here you can:

• start a conversation with other instructors of Spanish as a heritage language
• share SHL resources (syllabi, activities, lessons, event information, etc.) that you have created or found
• browse SHL resources from other teachers
• stay up-to-date on new resources and professional development events

Gramáticas is a grammar reference website of the Spanish language. Explore it by clicking on one of the following menu options:

"The foreign-language newspaper sites listed here are a sample of material available on the Web free of charge:

Chinese  French  German  Italian  Japanese  Portuguese  Russian  Spanish

These news sites are selected especially for language students, but all are invited to peruse these pages at their leisure."

Source: MIT Libraries

Salsa is Georgia Public Broadcasting's award-winning Spanish language series for young learners in kindergarten through the third grade. Puppets in familiar stories, digital graphics and animation teach the language. Click here to access all the SALSA episodes.

Click here to learn more about the SALSA project.

The following are the Board approved instructional resources for the Spanish language program:

Resource	Cover	Course(s)
Descubre 1 2017 Vista		Spanish I & Spanish II
Descubre 2 2017 Vista		Spanish II & Spanish III
Descubre 3 2017 Vista		Spanish  IV
Temas 2014 Vista		Spanish V Spanish VI Spanish VII Spanish VIII AP Spanish Language & Culture
Abriendo Paso: Temas y Lecturas 2014 Pearson		AP Spanish Language & Culture
Abriendo Paso: Gramática 2014 Pearson		AP Spanish Language & Culture
Preparing for the AP Spanish Exam 2014 Pearson		AP Spanish Language & Culture
Reflexiones de la Literatura Hispánica 2013 Pearson		AP Spanish Literature & Culture
En Español Level 7 2015 Santillana		Spanish for Native Speakers I Spanish for Native Speakers II
En Español Level 8 2015 Santillana		Spanish for Native Speakers I Spanish for Native Speakers II
En Español Level 9 2015 Santillana		Spanish for Native Speakers II
Descubre el Español A Santillana		(ES) Spanish K - 1
Descubre el Español B Santillana		(ES) Spanish 2 - 3
Descubre el Español C Santillana		(ES) Spanish 4 - 5

Follow the links below to access more information about:

• Vista Higher Learning D'accord Series
  
• Student enrollment instructions This video provides instructions on how to enroll as a student (see your teacher for more information).
• VHL Teacher and Student Supersite access
• Vista Webinar Supersite Schedule (teachers)
• Vista Supersite Tutorials
• Santillana Descubre el español series
  
• Santillana Schoology online resources 
• Santillana En Español series
• Santillana Schoology online resources

 This tool from the 123 Teach Me website offers users to create a set of sentences based on words entered by the user. Click hereto try it.

This Playlist is part of the Easy Languages channel on You tube that presents language usage in context.

Click here to see all the videos on the Easy Spanish Playlist.

The Storytelling: Colombia Style is and audio resources available via iTunes University, see their description below.

"This is a series of stories in Spanish told by Colombian students of Luz Stella Angarita who are studying under her at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana en Bogotá, Colombia. Students at Denison use these stories to improve their listining comprehension skills, cultural understanding, and as inspiration for creating their own stories in Spanish."