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Elementary Spanish A (bound)
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028904
Grade K
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Charlotte Mason
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$22.90 - Teacher Edition, Teaching Charts, and Vocabulary Cards sold separately
- Introduce Spanish with games and activities
- Colorful pages cover basic vocabulary word groups
Description
Abeka Elementary Spanish is for the youngest learners. Activities introduce students to simple vocabulary though colorful pages. Students learn the words for family members, colors, animals, numbers, shapes and more. I noticed there is no pronunciation guidance with the Spanish words, though the English word is also shown. Kids will love the hands-on projects, like animal masks to cut out when learning vocabulary words such as elephant, hippo, and penguin. Handwriting is very minimal, as there is more circling, connecting lines, cut and paste, and coloring at this age group. A certificate of completion rounds out the course! Not reproducible. Consumable with perforated pages. ~Sara
Publisher's Description of Elementary Spanish A (bound)
This colorful book reinforces Spanish language learning with fun activity sheets. Students learn the foundations of Spanish, including greetings, Bible verses, and basic vocabulary, with an emphasis on excellent pronunciation.
Category Description for Abeka Spanish
Spanish teachers will enjoy the clearly defined lessons in this course. It would work well with small groups too, if you have a Spanish speaker teaching the co-op. Why is that? The new edition (2021 for year 1, 2022 for year 2) does not have pronunciation guidance in the books or on a CD. There is a pronunciation resource that is available for additional purchase from the Abeka website called Digital Teaching Slides with Teaching Aids. Without this, there is no pronunciation help. It would be challenging for a homeschool high school student to complete this course independently without some pronunciation guidance if they are new to Spanish. Also, there are daily assignments that involve students interacting with other students. Perhaps a Spanish speaking tutor would like to use this course with one or two students as well. So, now that the preliminary issues are covered, let's dig into the structure of the program.
Necessary components include the student worktext, teacher editions volumes 1 & 2, Oral Fluency Exercises student book & answer key, and the student quizzes volumes 1 & 2 with answer keys for each quiz book.
The Teacher Edition includes an overview laying out each daily 50-minute lesson very specifically: check/discuss homework (5-7min), review/quiz (8-10min), teach the lesson (10-20min), practice the new material (5-15min), give/preview homework assignment (1-2min) and there you go! Abeka definitely provides a clear path for the teacher to follow. Instructors also see reduced student pages with teaching notes in the margins. Each volume (there are 2) has 6 units and the course follows a traditional classroom school year.
The Student Worktext is consumable. Each unit begins with a Bible verse, followed by a variety of practice exercises, vocabulary lists and illustrations, spiral review sections, "survival skills" section which has situational speaking prompts, and a feature country. It is not full immersion, however, as you often see instruction in English and the rest in Spanish.
Content - Spanish 1: As far as the depth of Spanish language instruction goes, it is a pretty typical first year of high school language course. You learn present tense regular and irregular verbs, loads of vocabulary, questions, situational conversation, objects and pronouns, simple past tense, and a good amount of culture. See the table of contents for more detail.
Content - Spanish 2: The updated textbook is visually appealing. Important grammar concepts taught this year include: regular verbs present indicative, direct/indirect pronouns, present progressive, regular verbs preterite, reflexive verbs, commands, imperfect, past progressive, future, present subjunctive, passive voice, passive reflexive, relative pronouns, simple conditional, and imperfect subjunctive. ~Sara
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Grade: | K |
| Brand: | A Beka Book |
| Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5625 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.45 |
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