Teach Your Child Spanish Through Play
is a resource for parents, home educators and teachers.
Including tips for parents who don't speak the language,
creative games and activities that cater to every learning
style, a guide to teaching culture, ideas for building and
maintaining bilingual communities through playgroups and
language clubs and a voluminous resource directory,
this book is a must have for anyone who wants to teach a child Spanish language and culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction...4
How to Use this book...5
Frequently Asked Questions...9
Part I- Maximizing Spanish Language Development ...24
Make Language Learning a Family Affair
Consider Bilingual Childcare
Welcoming an Exchange Student to the Home
Pen Pals
Create A Network of Spanish Speakers
Television, Movies and Cartoons
Music
Language Camps
Exchanges
Trips
Surround Yourself With Spanish
Part II- Vocabulary Activities...42
Numbers...43
Colors...47
Body Parts...51
Describing People...55
Greetings and Goodbyes...57
Introductions...60
Clothing...63
Food...66
Dinnertime...71
Restaurant ...74
Verbs and Sentence Starters...77
Prepositions...82
Feelings and States of Being...85
Family...88
Around the House...92
Community...95
Directions...98
Weather...101
Days and Months...104
Animals...107
Part III- Culture...111
Introduction to Teaching Culture...112
Holidays (with Holiday Calendar)...119
Pen Pals as an Ethnographic Study...141
Gestures and Body Language...151
Interviewing Native Speakers...154
Part IV- As They Grow...157
Childhood
School Age Children
Preteens and Teens
Part V- Resources...162
Evaluating Resources and Materials...163
Resource Directory...168
List of Spanish Speaking Countries...184
Glossary of Education and Linguistic Terms...185