Find everything you need to build a successful Spanish program with our Spanish curriculum for elementary and middle school.
Sonrisas Spanish empowers you to improve student outcomes, increase student engagement, and have fun teaching Spanish—while you save time planning. The Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum is:
Our Spanish curriculum for elementary and middle school provides you with everything you need to teach with success. You receive all the lessons and materials you need to teach students to read, write, and speak Spanish—and learn about Spanish-speaking culture. Lesson plans, fun activities, music, storybooks, art projects, student workbooks, online content, engaging posters, and assessments make lesson-planning easy and teaching fun. Teacher training and support ensures successful implementation of the lessons.
The Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum is designed using second language acquisition research and a blend of language learning methodologies. Each level of the curriculum is aligned to the World-Readiness Standards for Language Learning. The Sonrisas lessons were fine-tuned through 25 years of research and development in preschool, elementary, and middle school Spanish classes.
With Sonrisas Spanish students have fun, stay engaged, develop cultural competence, and grow their Spanish proficiency. The Sonrisas lessons promote acquisition by creating an immersion environment with lots of opportunities for communication in Spanish. As a result, students comprehend and speak Spanish. Our Acquire, Develop, Learn® methodology guides the way the different levels of the curriculum work together and ensures a developmentally appropriate sequence of Spanish instruction for PreK-8th grade.
Read how one school increased student engagement in their elementary and middle school Spanish classes with the Sonrisas Spanish Curriculum.
Check out the results and watch videos of the Sonrisas Spanish lessons in action.
Our goal is to give teachers the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to effectively implement the Sonrisas lessons.