Heritage Spanish · Week 6 · Mi español: acentos, ortografía e historias
B o V, S, C o Z
Students build strategies for common spelling choices and decide which tools help them most when they write.
- Students will
- Students use strategies for common spelling choices: b and v, s, c, and z, h, and ll and y.
- SEL skill
- Choose a spelling strategy by comparing options and weighing which will work best
- What it looks like
- Students compare spelling tools and decide, with a reason, which ones help them most when they write.
- Content focus
- Spelling ("ortografía"): b and v, s, c, and z, h, ll and y
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Responsible decision-making
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Standards
- WL.CM6.I: Communication Standard 6, Productive Structures in Service of Communication (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Interpretive Communication, Language Comparisons
- Proficiency range: Intermediate
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- El ensayo de opinión Responsible decision-makingStudents write an opinion essay in academic Spanish and support each claim with reasons rather than emotion alone.
- Realismo mágico Responsible decision-makingReading a magical realist short story, students decide what the magical element symbolizes and connect it to a real problem.
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