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¡El Alfabeto! Spanish Alphabet Literacy Center for Kids

May 25, 2021 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Teaching literacy in early grades is just plain fun. And literacy centers make it even more enjoyable – for us and our students.

More and more early learners are working on learning Spanish. Which is a great thing.

Learning how to use more than one language is fantastic for brain development, social skills, and creative thought – particularly for early grades!

And that’s why I’m excited to share this printable Spanish alphabet literacy center for kindergarten and first grade!

This huge resource is an awesome start to teaching children the Spanish alphabet and common Spanish words!

And if you’re working with ESL students, this is also a wonderful way to practice early literacy skills.

Read on to see how to get your copy (and a free sample)!

Need more ideas for teaching Spanish? Don’t miss our list of books for learning Spanish in early grades!

El Alfabeto Spanish Alphabet Literacy Center for Kids

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Spanish Alphabet Lesson for Early Grades

This resource is jam-packed with hands-on Spanish alphabet literacy activities.

And I mean, packed.

Spanish Alphabet Learning Flashcards for Kids

This early literacy resource includes two sets of color Spanish alphabet word flashcards (plus line art versions).

The first set features words and pictures, while the second features pictures and a blank rectangle.

Students can cut and paste the alphabet word labels onto the cards. Or you can use hook and loop dots to make them into a reusable activity.

Spanish Alphabet Cut and Paste Activity for Kids

There’s a cut and paste alphabet word worksheet (with a line art version).

And an answer key for this and each activity too!

Spanish Alphabet Phonics Worksheet for Kids

After learning how to pronounce each word, help your students review beginning sounds with two pages of match the letter sound worksheets.

Line art versions of these are included too.

Spanish Alphabet Trace and Write Activity

Plus, there are seven pages of read, trace, and write worksheets to help students practice writing and reading each Spanish word.

And a line art version if you need to save on ink!

Want to use all of the review activities at centers? Simply laminate each page and let students complete them with dry erase markers.

Get a look at some of this Spanish literacy center in action in the video below!

Spanish Alphabet Pronunciation Chart for Kids

This Spanish early literacy center also includes a pronunciation chart for each of the Spanish words in the resource.

This is so handy if you need to help your students isolate the syllables in each word.

Spanish Alphabet Pronunciation Chart for Kids

A color and line art version is included. And, even better, you can get this pronunciation chart free!

Keep reading for details.

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Practice talking about the parts of the body in Spanish with these Spanish parts of the body flashcards!

Printable Spanish Pronunciation Chart for Kids

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Printable Spanish Letter Worksheets for Kids

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Spanish Color Word Playdough Mats for Kids

February 27, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Colors are, I think, one of the first concepts I actively tried to teach my kids. Since they’re all around us, it’s pretty easy to start introducing it at a young age.

So, when you also want to teach your young child a different language, colors are a perfect place to start with that too!

And that’s why these Spanish color word playdough mats are so perfect for early learners!

You could use these with ESL students who still learn best in Spanish. Or you could use them with early learners who are learning how to identify colors.

They also make an awesome fine motor skill activity!

Read on to see how to get your set. And, for more fun with learning Spanish colors, take a look at our Spanish Color by Word Worksheets!

These Spanish color playdough mats are a wonderful hands on resource for early learners, Spanish language learners, and ESL students!

Spanish Color Word Playdough Mats for Kids

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This product includes 11 Spanish color mats, so students get a chance to learn all of the basic colors – and a few neutrals as well!

To use them, simply cut the color mats apart and laminate them.

Hand out cans of playdough and let kids practice forming the dough into letters and tracing out each color word.

Spanish Color Word Playdough Mats for Kids

After they’re done, let them practice saying each color word aloud in Spanish.

By the way, if you need a pronunciation guide, pick up our Spanish color word flashcards. One is included!

Printable Spanish Color Word Playdough Mats for Kids

You can also use these with dry erase markers!

Place the mats in morning tubs or at centers and let students practice tracing the letters over and over again.

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Don’t miss these other Spanish learning ideas!

Pick up this cupcake English and Spanish number word matching activity to build number recognition with early grades! Perfect for math centers!

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These printable Spanish color word playdough mats are perfect for early learners who are practicing color recognition! Great for early literacy centers too!

Los Colores! Printable Spanish Color Words Book

February 4, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Are you teaching Spanish to early learners?

There are so many fun ways to reinforce basic Spanish vocabulary practice with young students. You can play memory games, listen to Spanish vocabulary songs, or you can use printable activities.

If you’re looking for a simple printable for Spanish color words vocabulary, look no further!

This little printable Spanish tracing color words book is an easy and fun way to practice vocabulary and handwriting at once!

This would make a fantastic literacy center activity for ESL students too!

Read on to see how to get your copy. And, for more fun learning Spanish words for colors, don’t miss our Spanish Color by Word Lesson!

Los Colores! Spanish Color Words Book for Kids

To use this printable Spanish color words book for kids, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

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This product includes printable tracing pages for nine different colors in Spanish.

A title page for the book is also included.

To assemble the book, simply cut apart each of the pages. Stack them together, add staples along the side, and you’re done!

If you’re working with small groups, you can rotate this lesson so that you don’t have to assemble so many books at one time.

Or if you want to reuse the activity, turn it into a literacy center lesson!

Laminate the pages, place them on a ring, and let students practice tracing and writing the color words with dry erase markers.

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Printable Spanish I Have Who Has Game for Kids

November 7, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Early foreign language learning tends to focus on numbers, letters, and basic sentences. Which is great!

But it’s also cool when you add in a little fun as you go, right?

We’ve already shared printables to help kids learn to count in Spanish, but that’s not quite the same as learning to interact with others in the language.

Which is why this super simple printable Spanish I Have Who Has game is so great for early learners!

With this simple Spanish vocabulary game, kids can have fun, practice counting, and work on their Spanish vocabulary – all at the same time!

Read on to see how to get your copy for free!

And, for more help with teaching Spanish to children, take a look at A to Z Español – our Spanish Alphabet Learning Kit!

Printable Spanish I Have Who Has Game for Kids

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The rules of the game are simple.

There are 20 cards in all. Divide them up evenly among players (no more than four).

Each player reads what is on their card, which includes naming the number on their card and asking who has another number.

Except in Spanish.

The player with the most matches at the end wins!

If you need help to teach kids how to read the numbers in Spanish as well, pick up our Spanish number 1-20 flashcards too!

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Printable Spanish Flashcards: English to Spanish Feelings Flashcards

September 26, 2019 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Learning to talk about feelings is a big part of early childhood education. Giving kids words to express their emotions is a wonderful way to help them manage their feelings, talk about them with others, and understand how to process them.

So, if you’re teaching Spanish to your kids or if you’re teaching English as a second language to children, this set of English to Spanish feelings flashcards is a great addition to your collection of printable Spanish flashcards!

Read on to get your set! And, check out our Spanish parts of the body flashcards for more Spanish learning fun for kids!

Printable Spanish Flashcards: English to Spanish Feelings Flashcards

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In this flashcard set, you’ll find cards for nine different feelings:

Happy
Sad
Angry
Worried
Content
Furious
Excited
Confused
and Surprised

The set has six cards featuring faces and words for each feeling in both English and Spanish. Plus, a set of flashcards with the faces alone and a pronunciation guide to say each Spanish word correctly!

These could be really useful for kids who are learning to talk about emotions in either English or Spanish.

They might even be a good resource for nonverbal kids who are working on identifying or expressing their feelings to parents or caregivers.

And with nine different emotions to choose from, you could play a matching game with the kids. Or challenge them by making a face from one of the cards and letting them guess the correct Spanish emotion word!

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Aprendemos Colores! Spanish Color Words Activity

August 29, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Learning how to say color words in Spanish is always a fun lesson for kids.

Colors are all around us and learning to identify them is a great way to help students use the new Spanish vocabulary words they’re using.

But when you want to a little artistic touch to this lesson, this Spanish color words activity is a perfect way to get kids excited about their new vocabulary words!

This is such a fun lesson for foreign language learners in early grades!

Plus, it makes a nice take-home activity for kids to work on with their families. And, if you’re homeschooling, this is an excellent Spanish language learning worksheet to add to your collection.

Read on to see how to get your set! And, for more ways to learn Spanish at home, don’t miss our Spanish Family Words Vocabulary lesson!

¡Aprendemos Colores! Spanish Color Vocabulary Words Activity

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This product includes eight Spanish color activity pages. Each one features a different color by word picture that kids can create as they learn their Spanish vocabulary!

There are pages that only teach three colors and some that teach up to six colors. So you can differentiate the learning level by assigning simpler color activities to beginning learners.

Be sure to let the kids hang up their Spanish coloring creations when they’re done!

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Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Community Words Flashcards

April 11, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Learning about the community is a big part of preschool education. Remember when you were in nursery school and you learned about “community helpers”?

It’s also a key part of learning a foreign language. After all, you live in your community, so learning how to talk about it in your new language can really boost your vocabulary skills.

So I’m excited to share our newest set of printable Spanish flashcards: Spanish Community Words Flashcards!

These are great for kids and adults alike! And, since they come with a pronunciation guide, you and the children will be able to practice reading and saying each word.

Want more practice talking about community helpers in Spanish? Don’t miss our printable Spanish community helpers lesson!

Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Community Words Flashcards

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This set of flashcards includes the Spanish and English phrases for:

Apartments
Bakery
Farm
Museum
Airport
Library
House
and School!

There’s also a Spanish pronunciation guide to help you get used to saying the Spanish phrases!

Use one set to help kids identify each building or place in their native language. Then use the second set to introduce the new vocabulary. You can even play a matching game!

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Spanish Worksheets for Kids: Spanish Family Words Worksheets

March 28, 2019 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

¡Hola, amigos! ¿Estan listos aprender más español?

We’re continuing with our study of Spanish as a family. And, of course, there’s no better topic to start with than “the family” itself!

So, I’m sharing printable Spanish family words worksheets that are wonderful for introducing this topic to kids in both English and Spanish.

If you’re just starting to learn Spanish with your kids and you want to learn how to talk about immediate family members (mother, father, brother, sister, etc.), this pack is perfecto!

Read on to see how to get your copy! And for more Spanish learning fun, don’t miss our Spanish A to Z Alphabet Mega Bundle!

Spanish Worksheets for Kids: Spanish Family Words Worksheets

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In this Spanish family words lesson, kids will learn the Spanish words for the following family terms:

Father
Mother
Son
Daughter
Family

This set of Spanish worksheets for kids includes two English and Spanish family words matching activities.

Kids can practice completing sentences about family in both English and Spanish.

And they can practice writing sentences about family in both languages!

Plus, there are eight English and Spanish family word flashcards and a pronunciation key!

Because this set of Spanish worksheets also includes the English words and sentences, it’d be wonderful for ESL students who are working on English too!

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Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Color Flashcards

February 7, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve been enjoying our Printable Spanish Flashcards series! Today I’m sharing a new set of flashcards: Spanish Color Flashcards!

I don’t know why it took me so long to make these. After all, learning to identify colors is one of the most important concepts for toddlers and preschoolers. Chalk it up to mommy brain.

There are actually several ways to identify Spanish colors. For example, purple can be expressed as either morado or purpúra, while brown can be identified as either café or marrón.

In this set of flashcards, I went with morado and café, but the other words are perfectly fine also.

Read on to see how to get your set of printable Spanish color flashcards! And, for more foreign language learning, check out our Spanish Alphabet Mega Learning Kit!

Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Color Flashcards

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After they’re printed, just cut them out, laminate them, and you’re good to go!

This product includes three sets of flashcards: one in Spanish, one in English, and one blank set. A pronunciation key is also provided to help you say the Spanish words correctly.

You can print several sets and use them as a matching game. Or you might attach the blank set of cards (the ones that only have the color blocks on them) to household objects with masking tape and challenge your kids to identify the correct color in Spanish.

There are plenty of ways to use these!

Since the English color words are also included, these would be a wonderful learning tool for early learners as well!

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Months of the Year Flashcards

January 28, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Want to learn more español with your kids? These Spanish months of the year flashcards are perfect for learning los meses del año!

You can use these for calendar time, spelling practice, a matching game, and more. And, since the English and Spanish month words are on each card, you can even use them to introduce the months of the year in English. Great for a preschool calendar unit!

If you’ve been following along with our free printable flashcards series, you’ll remember that we’ve already featured Spanish days of the week flashcards, Spanish food flashcards, Spanish family flashcards, and Spanish opposite word flashcards. Be sure to add these to your growing Spanish flashcards collection!

Need more Spanish language learning resources? Don’t miss our list of kids’ books for learning Spanish at home!

What’s In the Spanish Months of the Year Flashcards Pack?

To use these Spanish months of the year flashcards, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are provided below. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

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This pack includes three sets of months of the year flashcards. One set features both English and Spanish months, another features only English, and the third displays the Spanish months and abbreviations only.

Use them to review English and Spanish months of the year with your young learners!

As you’ll notice, the months of the year are not capitalized in Spanish. Don’t worry! That’s not a typo. 🙂

In Spanish, days of the week and months of the year are both written in all lowercase letters.

The resource also includes a pronunciation key to help you say the words correctly.

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