Major Stair Design: Plurals in Spanish

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Major Stair DesignPlurals in Spanish

• Lisa Michalczuk

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Audience
The intended audience of this project will be
Spanish I students, beginning language learners.
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Purpose

• The purpose of this project will be to teach the
  students the three rules of making words plural
  in Spanish. This will broaden their speaking,
  listening, reading and writing skills in the
  target language.

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Approach
Inductive
Deductive

• I will be using several strategies to teach
  interactively with the students. I will begin by
  reviewing the basis of making words plural. I
  will go through and teach the 3 rules
  individually, using example-rule as well as
  rule-example.

Rule-Example
Example-Rule
Scaffolding
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Approach

• After each individual rule, there will be several
  examples illustrating the meaning. Students will
  have several opportunities to check their
  knowledge by interacting with the lesson.

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Structure

• The students will be asked to see a pattern in
  words and be able to match it to an individual
  rule. I will be using scaffolding to review each
  rule before the final evaluation of all three
  rules together.

Patterns are important to locate in a foreign
language.
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Structure

• I will supply feedback on the evaluation section
  of the lesson. Students will be taken to slides
  if they are correct as well as incorrect.
• Correct Incorrect

Click to see examples of feedback.
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Bravisimo
Yes! You are correct. The word ended in a
vowel, you just a s. Estupendo!
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Lo Siento

• Sorry, you are incorrect. Take another look at
  the ending. This word ends in a vowel.

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Feedback

• The feedback slides will reinforce the rule need
  to make that particular word plural.
• If they are correct, the rule is reinforced.
• If they are incorrect, they are given a clue to
  make notice of their error.

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End Product

• The goal of the Major Stair Project is to
  introduce the three rules of making words plural
  in Spanish. It is to give ample examples as well
  as allow students to interact as they learn.
  Students will be able to walk away from this
  lesson with a better understanding of the three
  rules.