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TeachSmart® ELL Spanish Activity List

Taylor Watkins
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Note: An asterisk (*) indicates an activity that is found in another category.

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Literacy

Craft and Structure

Features of Print

  • Ants*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Do Animals Use Their Flippers*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Punctuation*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Uppercase Letters*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Uppercase Letters & Punctuation*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Reading Aloud

Comprehension

  • Ants*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Cloze & Reveal*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Do Animals Use Their Flippers*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Letters in Words*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Read Aloud*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Phonics and Word Recognition

Decoding and Reading Words

  • Ants*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Do Animals Use Their Flippers*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Letter/Sound Matching*

  • I Can Hear Same Sounds*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds*: Foundational 2
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds*: Beginning 2
  • I Spy a Word With the Same Consonant Sound*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Alphabet Knowledge

Letter Recognition

  • How Are We Alike?: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Make a Letter Wall: Foundational 1
  • I Can Make a Letter Wall: Foundational 2
  • I Can Make a Letter Wall: Beginning 1
  • I Can Make a Letter Wall: Beginning 2
  • I Spy a Letter: Foundational 1
  • I Spy a Letter: Foundational 2
  • I Spy a Letter: Beginning 1
  • I Spy a Letter: Beginning 2
  • What Is a Letter?: Foundational 1
  • What Is a Letter?: Foundational 2
  • What Is a Letter?: Beginning 1
  • What Is a Letter?: Beginning 2
  • Where is My Mother?: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Letter/Sound Matching

  • I Can Hear Same Sounds: Foundational 1
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds: Foundational 2
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds: Beginning 1
  • I Can Hear Same Sounds: Beginning 2
  • I Spy a Word With the Same Consonant Sound: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Writing

Name Writing

  • I Can Unscramble My Name: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • It Is Fun to Write My Name: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Using Uppercase Letters and Punctuation

  • I Can Find Punctuation: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Uppercase Letters: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Uppercase Letters & Punctuation: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Where Is My Mother?*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Writing Other Letters and Words

  • How Are We Alike?*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Many Letters Can You Write: Beginning 2
  • I Can Hear & Write Letters: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Unscramble My Name*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Write Words: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • It Is Fun to Write My Name*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Where Is My Mother?*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Words Are Fun to Write: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Language

Dramatic Play

  • I Can Pretend: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Tell a Story*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Location Words*

  • I Know My Place Words (Under, Over, In & Out)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Know My Place Words (Up, Down, Above & Beside)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Storytelling

  • I Can Pretend*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Tell a Story: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Vocabulary Building

  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Animals): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Community Helpers): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Construction): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Food): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Homes): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Hygiene): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Insects): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (People): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Transportation): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Mathematics

Counting

Counting Sequence*

  • I Can Listen & Count*: Foundational 1 to Foundational 2
  • I Like to Count*: Foundational 1
  • I Like to Count*: Foundational 2
  • I Like to Count*: Beginning 1
  • I Like to Count*: Beginning 2

What Is a Number?*

  • I Know What a Number Stands For*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

First, Second, to Fifth and Last*

  • The Train Game*: Foundational 1
  • The Train Game*: Foundational 2
  • The Train Game*: Beginning 1
  • The Train Game*: Beginning 2
  • Who Is First?*: Foundational 1
  • Who Is First?*: Beginning 1

Counting Cardinality

Counting Numbers

  • I Can Listen & Count*: Foundational 1 to Foundational 2
  • I Like to Count*: Foundational 1
  • I Like to Count*: Foundational 2
  • I Like to Count*: Beginning 1
  • I Like to Count*: Beginning 2

Counting Objects

  • I Can Count When I Move Objects: Foundational 1
  • I Can Count When I Move Objects: Foundational 2
  • I Can Count When I Move Objects: Beginning 1
  • I Can Count When I Move Objects: Beginning 2
  • I Know What a Number Stands For*: Beginning 1

Making a Set of Objects

  • I Can See How Many Are in a Set*: Foundational 1
  • I Can See How Many Are in a Set*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Addition)*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Subtraction)*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Subtract*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Subtract*: Beginning 1
  • I Know How to Add*: Foundational 1
  • I Know How to Add*: Beginning 1

Numeral Recognition

Recognizing Number

  • How Are We Alike?: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • What Is a Number? What Is an Object?: Foundational 1
  • What Is a Number? What Is an Object?: Foundational 2
  • What Is a Number? What Is an Object?: Beginning 1
  • What Is a Number? What Is an Object?: Beginning 2

Making Sets Using Models

Objects in a Set*

  • I Can See How Many Are in a Set*: Foundational 1
  • I Can See How Many Are in a Set*: Beginning 1

Adding to a Set*

  • I Know How to Add*: Foundational 1
  • I Know How to Add*: Beginning 1

Subtracting From a Set*

  • I Can Subtract*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Subtract*: Beginning 1

Verbal Problems*

  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Addition)*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Subtraction)*: Beginning 1

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Adding Numbers

  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Addition)*: Beginning 1
  • I Know How to Add*: Foundational 1
  • I Know How to Add*: Beginning 1

Patterning*

  • I Can Make Patterns*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Make Patterns*: Foundational 2
  • I Can Make Patterns*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Record Information*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Subtracting Numbers

  • I Can Solve a Math Story (Subtraction)*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Subtract*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Subtract*: Beginning 1

Geometry

Comparing Shapes

  • I Can Match Shapes: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Foundational 2
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Beginning 2
  • I Can See Shapes Everywhere*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Sort*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Sort*: Foundational 2
  • I Can Sort*: Beginning 1
  • I Know My Shapes*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Composing and Decomposing Shapes

  • I Can Make a Shape Picture*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Recognizing Shapes

  • I Can See Shapes Everywhere*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Spatial Relations

  • I Know My Place Words (Under, Over, In & Out)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Know My Place Words (Up, Down, Above & Beside)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Common Shapes*

  • I Can Make a Shape Picture*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Match Shapes*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can See Shapes Everywhere*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Know My Shapes*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Manipulating Shapes*

  • I Can Move Shapes*: Foundational 1
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Foundational 2
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Beginning 1
  • I Can Move Shapes*: Beginning 2

Common Shapes

  • I Can Make a Shape Picture: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Match Shapes: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can See Shapes Everywhere: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Know My Shapes: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Location Words

  • I Know My Place Words (Under, Over, In & Out): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Know My Place Words (Up, Down, Above & Beside): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Manipulating Shapes

  • I Can Move Shapes: Foundational 1
  • I Can Move Shapes: Foundational 2
  • I Can Move Shapes: Beginning 1
  • I Can Move Shapes: Beginning 2

Measurement and Data

Comparing Objects

  • Shortest, Tallest & Longest: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Interpreting Data

  • I Can Record Information*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Measuring Objects

  • I Know How to Measure: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Recognizing Time

  • Calendar & Weather: Foundational 1
  • Daily Schedule*: Foundational 1

Sorting Objects

  • Healthy & Unhealthy Foods*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Hot & Cold*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Sort: Foundational 1
  • I Can Sort: Foundational 2
  • I Can Sort: Beginning 1
  • I Can Sort With a Venn Diagram*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Living & Nonliving*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Wants & Needs*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Patterning

  • I Can Make Patterns: Foundational 1
  • I Can Make Patterns: Foundational 2
  • I Can Make Patterns: Beginning 1
  • I Can Record Information: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Adding to a Set

  • I Know How To Add: Foundational 1
  • I Know How To Add: Beginning 1

Counting Sequence

  • I Can Listen & Count: Foundational 1 to Foundational 2
  • I Like To Count: Foundational 1
  • I Like To Count: Foundational 2
  • I Like To Count: Beginning 1
  • I Like To Count: Beginning 2

First, Second, to Fifth and Last

  • The Train Game: Foundational 1
  • The Train Game: Foundational 2
  • The Train Game: Beginning 1
  • The Train Game: Beginning 2
  • Who Is First?: Foundational 1
  • Who Is First?: Beginning 1

Objects in a Set

  • I Can See How Many Are In A Set: Foundational 1
  • I Can See How Many Are In A Set: Beginning 1

Subtracting From a Set

  • I Can Subtract: Foundational 1
  • I Can Subtract: Beginning 1

Verbal Problems

  • I Can Solve A Math Story - (Addition): Beginning 1
  • I Can Solve A Math Story - (Subtraction): Beginning 1

What Is a Number?

  • I Know What a Number Stands For: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Science

  • Ants*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Daily Questions (Food): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (Food)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (Hygiene)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (Insects)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Healthy & Unhealthy Foods: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Hot & Cold: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Do Animals Use Their Flippers?*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Concentrate (Hygiene): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Living & Nonliving: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • You Are What You Eat: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Social Studies

  • Daily Questions (Environments): Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (Community Helpers)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (Homes)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess The Picture & Talk About It (People)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Make A Map: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Wants & Needs: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Where People Live: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

eBooks Library

  • Ants: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • How Animals Use Their Flippers: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Daily Routines

  • Daily Questions: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Give Me Five: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Attendance Chart: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Classroom Helpers: Foundational 1
  • Calendar & Weather: Foundational 1
  • Daily Schedule: Foundational 1

Skill Connections

Charts

  • Cloze & Reveal: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Read Aloud: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Find Letters in Words: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Puzzles and Games

  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Animals)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Community Helpers)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Construction)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Food)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Homes)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Hygiene)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Insects)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (People)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Guess the Picture & Talk About It (Transportation)*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Concentrate: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Who Is First?*: Foundational 1
  • Who Is First?*: Beginning 1

Compare and Contrast

  • Healthy & Unhealthy Foods*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Hot & Cold*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Sort With A Venn Diagram: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Living & Nonliving*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • Wants & Needs*: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Independent Play

  • Free Play: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Assessment

Literacy Assessment

  • I Can Name These Letters: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Write Letters: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Draw My Family: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Draw Myself: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I Can Tell a Story to My Teacher: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

Mathematics Assessment

  • I Can Name These Numerals: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1
  • I can Write Numerals: Foundational 1 to Beginning 1

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