To engage in the practices of science, students must have a strong command of science academic language. However, content area teachers often make academic language an incidental part of their lesson planning, which leads to missed opportunities to enhance students' language development. To support pre-service elementary science teachers (PSTs) in…

Final part of a series on teaching Spanish grammar. (DS)

Describes the GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) project being developed to provide enhanced access to lesson plans and other Internet-based educational materials through metadata. Highlights include controlled vocabularies; NIDR (networked information discovery and retrieval); the Dublin Core element set; syntax; prototype interfaces; and…

This is the seventeenth Spanish lesson in a regular series. It contains a passage from the writings of Pio Baroja. The exercises include questions on the passage and its vocabulary, exercises on the syntax of verbs, with emphasis on the subjunctive, translation exercises from English, and other drills. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

This lesson plan for a Spanish class includes a vocabulary list, a grammar discussion with questions and a poem followed by analytical questions. (NCR)

A Spanish lesson is presented with sections on grammar, vocabulary, and expressions (modismos) with written test exercises and an assigned composition. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)

This manual outlines lessons which concentrate on three areas of language study: grammatical skills, oral skills, and writing skills. Each lesson plan states the objective, the activities to be performed, the materials to be used and gives sample criteria for evaluating the student's mastery of the lesson. The grammar exercises include: sentences…