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Category: Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

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Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

The Shortest Distance to Montessori Spanish

Gretchen MeloOctober 28, 2023April 22, 2025

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, right? In Spanish, the phrase “al grano” means “to the…

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Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Sonidos y sílabas en español

Gretchen MeloSeptember 20, 2023April 22, 2025

Help your beginner Spanish students or your dual language scholars learn letters, letter sounds, syllable pronunciations, and some diphthongs, all while growing…

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Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Español en el parque

Gretchen MeloSeptember 16, 2023April 22, 2025

Join me as I model some lessons using El Puente Bilingüe materials from the Early Spanish Skills Collection! Lessons will…

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Don’t Die on the CI/Grammar/TPRS/90%/Songs and Games Hill!
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning Spanish Teachers in Conventional Schools

Don’t Die on the CI/Grammar/TPRS/90%/Songs and Games Hill!

Gretchen MeloJune 15, 2023April 22, 2025

One thing I have learned in my 14 years of teaching experience with people from ages 5 through adulthood is…

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Spanish Language Learning Curriculum for Montessori Schools!
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Spanish Language Learning Curriculum for Montessori Schools!

Gretchen MeloMay 8, 2023April 22, 2025

El Puente Bilingüe curriculum for Spanish language teaching and learning in Montessori settings is here, and I can tell you that there…

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Reflecting on the Cosmic Task
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Reflecting on the Cosmic Task

Gretchen MeloApril 22, 2023April 22, 2025

When I first heard the words, “cosmic task”, I was a new assistant guide at a Montessori school. I was…

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Montessori Spanish – Weeks 2 and 3
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Montessori Spanish – Weeks 2 and 3

Gretchen MeloApril 6, 2023April 22, 2025

I have been “following the child”, true to Montessori philosophy, as I offer Spanish lessons that incorporate El Puente Bilingüe…

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Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning Reflections on Bilingualism Spanish Teachers in Conventional Schools

Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach

Gretchen MeloApril 4, 2023April 22, 2025

“Transform the way you teach languages with ‘Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach’! This ebook…

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A Video Journey to Language Learning Options for Elementary Students- Conventional and Montessori
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning Reflections on Bilingualism

A Video Journey to Language Learning Options for Elementary Students- Conventional and Montessori

Gretchen MeloMarch 29, 2023April 22, 2025

What is behind the Montessori-inspired curriculum as well as my mainstream/conventional curriculum? What kind of research supports what I’m doing?…

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Spanish Lessons, with or without a Spanish Teacher?
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning

Spanish Lessons, with or without a Spanish Teacher?

Gretchen MeloMarch 26, 2023April 22, 2025

This might be a very unpopular post… or not. What is a teacher? Someone who bestows information onto others? A…

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