Full Year "I Can" Spanish 1: IPA-Style Curriculum

Do you want to run a proficiency based classroom? Do you want to provide your students with the consistency and continuity that they need? Are you sick of your textbook curriculum? Is your district encouraging you to use (or design?!) a new framework or digital curriculum? This purchase for a complete first year Spanish curriculum for high school students will help you do all that. The lessons in the curriculum progress through Novice-Low to Novice-Mid goals. This product provides 16 lessons that have 4-6 Can-Do Statements in the 3 different modes of communication (Interpersonal, Presentational, and Interpretive) grouped by a common theme or context--Interculturality Goals are also part of the lessons!! If you have learned about and want to try using Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs), then you will love this curriculum. I have used and updated this curriculum for 10+ years!

(This product was updated in June 2023!)

Your purchase includes: A .pdf of handouts for each unit, an editable .pptx of the handouts, and a editable PowerPoint presentation to accompany the handouts. (You can import the documents into your Google Drive with minor adjustments.)

The lessons include:

-Printable learning goals

-Essential questions

-Printable vocabulary list to support the learning goals

-Detailed day by day lesson plans to make following this curriculum super easy!

-Printable lesson activities

-An editable 300+ slide PowerPoint Presentation to project the standards addressed, learning goals, vocabulary, pictures and activities to help you provide comprehensible input, and prompts for practicing learning goals that are guaranteed to get your students speaking and using the language!

-Performance Assessments

-Explanation of proficiency grading , grading scales and grading rubrics are also included with the curriculum

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Save yourself tons of time and money with this curriculum and get great student achievement results. *You will need to be comfortable with technology and accessing and using online resources, there are many pieces to the puzzle, they are all there and my sample plans guide you on where to find everything, but it's up to you to get yourself organized for ease of access to what you need, and once you set yourself up, you'll love this curriculum!* I have been SO happy letting go of a textbook and focusing on helping students find out what they really CAN DO in the language. You will not regret when you challenge yourself to teaching without a textbook, and these documents will allow you to do just that! Please also check out my “Full Year I Can Spanish 2” and my “Full Year I Can Spanish 3” curricula.

New in 2022: "I Can" Middle School Beginning Spanish Curriculum!!!

New in 2023--Not sure if you want to purchase a full year? I have separated this product into 4 units! Find them here:

I Can Spanish 1-Unit 1

I Can Spanish 1-Unit 2

I Can Spanish 1-Unit 3

I Can Spanish 1-Unit 4

If you have any questions about this product or others, please message me at icanspanish@hotmail.com or send me a question in the question forum. Also, I have tried to review the documents thoroughly, but sometimes we are blind to our own typos and errors which is why I provide EDITABLE versions of everything. If you see an error in the documents that I could change, PLEASE send me a message and I’d be HAPPY to fix it and upload a new version--Positive feedback is very important to me :)

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