Once students have successfully completes Part III of the Spanish for Elementary Students course, students should be able to:
- More vocabulary and practices on conjugating verbs and using them in different tenses.
- Learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing.
- Enhance the writing skills by using a series of writing-based methodology, focuses on specific activities and techniques to complement the vocabularies learned.
- The use of weekly stories to enhance comprehension skills and class-led discussions.
- Recognize, understand, and pronounce more Spanish characters.
- Improve conversational skills.
- Review the use of tenses.
- Use some regular and irregular verbs in the preterit tense.
- Understand and use preterit tense.
- Learn to use direct object pronouns (me, te, lo, la, nos, os, los, las) with the command form.
- Learn to use indirect object pronouns (me, te, le nos, os, les) with the command form.
- Conjugate regular and irregular verbs (past progressive, imperfect and preterit tense).
- Learn more of the Spanish culture, such as its history and traditions.
- Learn about holidays.
Once students have successfully completed Part IV of the Spanish for Elementary Students course, students should be able to:
- Appropriately use and understand the use of prefixes and suffixes in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of the Spanish sounds for k, ll, I, m, and n.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of primitive and derived words in Spanish
- Appropriately use and understand the use of simple and compound words in Spanish
- Appropriately use and understand the use of homonyms and homophones in Spanish
- Appropriately use and understand the use of synonyms and antonyms in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of possessive and demonstrative adjectives in Spanish
- Appropriately use and understand the use of articles in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of adjectives and descriptive phrases in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of adverbs in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of verbs in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of simple and compound verbs in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of written dialogue and syllable division in Spanish.
- Appropriately use and understand the use of punctuation in Spanish, including accent marks.
- Appropriately use and understand how to differentiate among three types of Spanish words: palabras agudas, palabras esdrújulas, and palabras llanas.
- Appropriately use and understand the characteristics of fables, historical texts, legends, and letters.
Once students have successfully completes Part V of the Spanish for Elementary Students course, students should be able to:
- As students experiment with creating their own autobiography, they identify different types of dictionaries; recognize the difference between a phrase and a sentence and reinforce nuances of syllabic emphasis.
- Through experimentation with prose and verse, students recall word stems and resulting word families, learn about and use the grammatical subject and its relationship to the predicate, apply prefixes and suffixes, and classify words by syllables.
- While creating first-person narratives, students review word families, classify accents and create questions, exclamatory sentences and orders.
- While reviewing the characteristics of the fable, students distinguish between root words and derivative words and identify distinct classes of nouns.
- As students learn about messaging and advertising, they will distinguish between words that augment (–ota, –azo, etc.) and words that diminish (–ito, –illo, etc), and identify and use determinant articles and possessive and demonstrative pronouns.
- While creating a biography, students work with and understand how semantic fields enrich language, learn about and use qualifying adjectives and are introduced to certain functions and uses of the comma.