Spanish Curriculum
Grades 4, 5, and 6: Introduction to Spanish
Text(s)
¡Avancemos! Level 1
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Content
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Greetings
- Classroom
- Numbers, weekdays, and months
- Colors
- Body parts
- Feelings
- Verbs: Words as they express actions, states, or occurrences; the infinitive forms of verbs and their importance in Spanish
- Adjectives: Words as they modify or describe nouns; agreement in gender and number between adjectives and nouns; comparative and superlative
- Pronouns: Introduction to subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella, nosotros/as, vosotros/as, ellos/ellas) and their usage
- Nouns: Words that represent people, places, things, or ideas; the genders (masculine and feminine) and numbers (singular and plural) of nouns
- Commands
- Alphabet, accents, and conjugations
Spanish Culture & Daily Life
- Spanish holiday traditions
- School and work life
Grade 7: Spanish I
Text(s)
¡Avancemos! Level 1
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Content
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Verbs: reflexive
- Verb tense: present; present progressive; preterite; future; imperfect
- Tenor idioms
- Adjectives: possessive; demonstrative
- Objects: direct and indirect
- Affirmative and negative tú commands
Spanish Culture & Daily Life
- Clothing
- Food
- Feelings
- Games: Spanish board games; dominoes
- Topic of choice: book project
Grade 8: Spanish II
Text(s)
¡Avancemos! Level 1
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Content
Grammar & Vocabulary
- Preterite verb tense: -ar, -er, -ir, iy, irregular, and stem change
- Past perfect tense
- Estar + participle
Spanish Culture & Daily Life Through Literature, Song, and Creative Writing
- “The Girl and the Squirrel”
- “Goldilocks”
- “Jason’s Mother”
- Am I a Gringo?”
- “Noises at Night”
- “The Secret”
- “The Stalker”
- Cultural connection: José Mujica
- “The Happy Man”
- “The Flip Flop”
- “The Ideal Boy”
- “Crazy Creatures”
- “He Who Gets Angry Loses”
- “The Enchanted Lake”
- Song: “Everything Changed”
- Creative writing: The Crazy Zoo