Folklore en la cabaña: A Family's Guide to Learning Spanish Together - CUENTO 4 (Story 4)
Cuento 4: Patito ensaya su voz (Duckling Tries His Voice)
Folklore en la cabaña (Folklore at the Cottage) is a collection of four story-based language learning guides. It can be used be used to supplement and enrich your current Spanish-language studies or as a Spanish-language curriculum on its own. Designed for (but not exclusive to) Charlotte Mason families, Folklore en la cabaña places oral storytelling at the center. All content revolves around a story's theme and vocabulary. Furthermore, model recordings made by native (or native-like) speakers are provided for each guide's repertoire of poem, hymn, verse, folksong, oral story, useful phrases, and calendar/weather songs.
You may start using Folklore en la cabaña at the beginning of any term (fall, winter, spring) as long as you begin with Cuento 1 and continue sequentially through Cuento 4. At that point, you can cycle back to Cuento 1 and complete the program at LEVEL 2 with those learners who completed the first cycle at LEVEl 1. This would provide 8 full terms of language learning.
All Cuentos include both LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 options. Separate versions do not need to be purchased for different ages or ability levels. This guide is intended to offer a family-style approach to language learning.
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This is the fourth of four stories (cuentos) encompassed by Folklore en la cabaña . All story guides are 12-weeks in length and are sold individually.
Cuento 4 makes connections with concepts introduced in Cuentos 1-3, giving learners the opportunity to build on pre-existing knowledge and skills. As with all Folklore en la cabaña guides, the weekly lessons are centered around story-telling with corresponding listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks.
Your family will enjoy learning a new repertoire of content for the warm-up recitation (calendar work, scripture verse and poem recitation, a hymn and folksong, and useful phrases). Cuento 4 also introduces a visual alphabet alongside pronunciation practice and a Spanish-language nature walk.
Your purchase of Cuento 4 includes:
Introduction to Tierra /25 pages
An overview of the entire curriculum
Resource guide (la guía de recursos) /23 pages
Description of Cuento 4 content and helpful tips for carrying out lesson activities.
Recordings of stories, poems, verses, calendar and weather wheels and songs, and picture book read alouds made by native or native-like speakers (with links and QR codes).
Printables (los imprimibles) / 28 pages
Learning manipulatives and Spanish-language visual tools to display in your home.
Teacher lesson guide (la guía de lecciones del maestro) / 59 pages
Detailed instructions for the parent/teacher to follow for each of the three lesson days per week over the course of 12 weeks.
Answers to student workbook activities.
Student workbook (el cuaderno) / 21 pages
Reading, writing and speaking tasks for students in years 5-8. These include but are not limited to copy work, translation, illustrated/oral/guided written narration, and oral dictation.
Word journal (el diario de palabras) / printable cover to fill with blank printer paper/ 1 page
A place for students to keep track of all the new Spanish words they are learning.
(159 total page count)
PLEASE NOTE:
This is a digital download only. I recommend using a binder and dividers to organize your materials for easy reference. A printable binder cover and spine label are included with your purchase.
Each file you purchase may be printed as many times as you like for your own personal use (one family). Please do not share the downloaded files with others or allow other people to make copies of the printed product. Contact me for pricing and guidelines for use if you are interested in using Folklore en la cabaña in a coop or multifamily setting.
Cuento 4: Patito ensaya su voz (Duckling Tries His Voice)
Folklore en la cabaña (Folklore at the Cottage) is a collection of four story-based language learning guides. It can be used be used to supplement and enrich your current Spanish-language studies or as a Spanish-language curriculum on its own. Designed for (but not exclusive to) Charlotte Mason families, Folklore en la cabaña places oral storytelling at the center. All content revolves around a story's theme and vocabulary. Furthermore, model recordings made by native (or native-like) speakers are provided for each guide's repertoire of poem, hymn, verse, folksong, oral story, useful phrases, and calendar/weather songs.
You may start using Folklore en la cabaña at the beginning of any term (fall, winter, spring) as long as you begin with Cuento 1 and continue sequentially through Cuento 4. At that point, you can cycle back to Cuento 1 and complete the program at LEVEL 2 with those learners who completed the first cycle at LEVEl 1. This would provide 8 full terms of language learning.
All Cuentos include both LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 options. Separate versions do not need to be purchased for different ages or ability levels. This guide is intended to offer a family-style approach to language learning.
——
This is the fourth of four stories (cuentos) encompassed by Folklore en la cabaña . All story guides are 12-weeks in length and are sold individually.
Cuento 4 makes connections with concepts introduced in Cuentos 1-3, giving learners the opportunity to build on pre-existing knowledge and skills. As with all Folklore en la cabaña guides, the weekly lessons are centered around story-telling with corresponding listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks.
Your family will enjoy learning a new repertoire of content for the warm-up recitation (calendar work, scripture verse and poem recitation, a hymn and folksong, and useful phrases). Cuento 4 also introduces a visual alphabet alongside pronunciation practice and a Spanish-language nature walk.
Your purchase of Cuento 4 includes:
Introduction to Tierra /25 pages
An overview of the entire curriculum
Resource guide (la guía de recursos) /23 pages
Description of Cuento 4 content and helpful tips for carrying out lesson activities.
Recordings of stories, poems, verses, calendar and weather wheels and songs, and picture book read alouds made by native or native-like speakers (with links and QR codes).
Printables (los imprimibles) / 28 pages
Learning manipulatives and Spanish-language visual tools to display in your home.
Teacher lesson guide (la guía de lecciones del maestro) / 59 pages
Detailed instructions for the parent/teacher to follow for each of the three lesson days per week over the course of 12 weeks.
Answers to student workbook activities.
Student workbook (el cuaderno) / 21 pages
Reading, writing and speaking tasks for students in years 5-8. These include but are not limited to copy work, translation, illustrated/oral/guided written narration, and oral dictation.
Word journal (el diario de palabras) / printable cover to fill with blank printer paper/ 1 page
A place for students to keep track of all the new Spanish words they are learning.
(159 total page count)
PLEASE NOTE:
This is a digital download only. I recommend using a binder and dividers to organize your materials for easy reference. A printable binder cover and spine label are included with your purchase.
Each file you purchase may be printed as many times as you like for your own personal use (one family). Please do not share the downloaded files with others or allow other people to make copies of the printed product. Contact me for pricing and guidelines for use if you are interested in using Folklore en la cabaña in a coop or multifamily setting.
Cuento 4: Patito ensaya su voz (Duckling Tries His Voice)
Folklore en la cabaña (Folklore at the Cottage) is a collection of four story-based language learning guides. It can be used be used to supplement and enrich your current Spanish-language studies or as a Spanish-language curriculum on its own. Designed for (but not exclusive to) Charlotte Mason families, Folklore en la cabaña places oral storytelling at the center. All content revolves around a story's theme and vocabulary. Furthermore, model recordings made by native (or native-like) speakers are provided for each guide's repertoire of poem, hymn, verse, folksong, oral story, useful phrases, and calendar/weather songs.
You may start using Folklore en la cabaña at the beginning of any term (fall, winter, spring) as long as you begin with Cuento 1 and continue sequentially through Cuento 4. At that point, you can cycle back to Cuento 1 and complete the program at LEVEL 2 with those learners who completed the first cycle at LEVEl 1. This would provide 8 full terms of language learning.
All Cuentos include both LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 options. Separate versions do not need to be purchased for different ages or ability levels. This guide is intended to offer a family-style approach to language learning.
——
This is the fourth of four stories (cuentos) encompassed by Folklore en la cabaña . All story guides are 12-weeks in length and are sold individually.
Cuento 4 makes connections with concepts introduced in Cuentos 1-3, giving learners the opportunity to build on pre-existing knowledge and skills. As with all Folklore en la cabaña guides, the weekly lessons are centered around story-telling with corresponding listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks.
Your family will enjoy learning a new repertoire of content for the warm-up recitation (calendar work, scripture verse and poem recitation, a hymn and folksong, and useful phrases). Cuento 4 also introduces a visual alphabet alongside pronunciation practice and a Spanish-language nature walk.
Your purchase of Cuento 4 includes:
Introduction to Tierra /25 pages
An overview of the entire curriculum
Resource guide (la guía de recursos) /23 pages
Description of Cuento 4 content and helpful tips for carrying out lesson activities.
Recordings of stories, poems, verses, calendar and weather wheels and songs, and picture book read alouds made by native or native-like speakers (with links and QR codes).
Printables (los imprimibles) / 28 pages
Learning manipulatives and Spanish-language visual tools to display in your home.
Teacher lesson guide (la guía de lecciones del maestro) / 59 pages
Detailed instructions for the parent/teacher to follow for each of the three lesson days per week over the course of 12 weeks.
Answers to student workbook activities.
Student workbook (el cuaderno) / 21 pages
Reading, writing and speaking tasks for students in years 5-8. These include but are not limited to copy work, translation, illustrated/oral/guided written narration, and oral dictation.
Word journal (el diario de palabras) / printable cover to fill with blank printer paper/ 1 page
A place for students to keep track of all the new Spanish words they are learning.
(159 total page count)
PLEASE NOTE:
This is a digital download only. I recommend using a binder and dividers to organize your materials for easy reference. A printable binder cover and spine label are included with your purchase.
Each file you purchase may be printed as many times as you like for your own personal use (one family). Please do not share the downloaded files with others or allow other people to make copies of the printed product. Contact me for pricing and guidelines for use if you are interested in using Folklore en la cabaña in a coop or multifamily setting.
Description of Folklore en la cabaña story collection
Folklore en la cabaña began with what is still the core of its being – telling stories out loud to my children in Spanish. I wanted to introduce them to a rich variety of sound features and structural aspects of the Spanish language within the context of stories that captured their imagination. I have always used props such as animal figurines or paper puppets to deepen their experience and enjoyment of the story and to help them use Spanish as we tell a story together. Folkore en la cabaña combines my research and fieldwork as a linguist and over 15 years as a classroom educator with the methods I have been using at home with my own children; singing, storytelling, reading, and creativity have been my most powerful tools for raising children bilingually.
All stories take place in the context of a home and its surroundings providing a rich array of vocabulary that describes the spaces of a home; the garden, living room, forest, farm, or kitchen, etc. The vocabulary is represented by hand drawn paper puppets for the teacher and students to move during story (re)tellings. Additionally, each story guide walks you through the process of going on a Spanish-language nature walk or following a Spanish-language recipe.
Each 12-week guide can be used by home educators with a wide variety of proficiency levels - those with basic to intermediate speaking skills as well as native speakers who are looking for tools to help them use Spanish alongside their children. It can be used individually or with a multi-age group of students, providing tasks for students of different ages and abilities within each term (years 1-8/Forms I-III). While learners of all ages and abilities complete the bulk of the daily activities together, students (in yrs 5-8 = LEVEL 2) have the option of completing additional reading, writing, and speaking tasks on day 3 (student workbook provided).
Folklore en la cabaña is centered around the telling of Spanish-language folktales originally written for a Spanish-speaking audience. I have been given permission by the authors to adapt these stories to make them more accessible to a language-learning audience while maintaining their original authenticity and integrity. Through storytelling and narration of these rich tales, students will develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they enjoy a feast of Spanish resources.
Additional resources offer the opportunity to:
learn useful phrases
practice pronunciation
describe the date and weather
interact with print materials displayed in your home
sing folksongs and hymns
recite scripture and poetry
go on Spanish language nature walk
follow a Spanish language recipe
read Spanish language picture books
practice verb meanings and conjugations with movement and gesture
Sequence of learning
The four language skills are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This is the order we learn them in our native language and Folklore approaches second language learning in the same way. This is also the sequence followed by Charlotte Mason who believed that children should learn a second language orally in the early forms.
Target audience
Tierra was designed for Charlotte Mason home educators, but can serve as a language-learning tool for any family to whom its content and approach is of interest and use.
This guide is written for home educators with a wide variety of proficiency levels - those with beginner/basic to advanced speaking skills as well as bilingual/native speakers living in a majority English context who are looking for tools to help them use and maintain Spanish in the home. It can be used individually or with a multi-age group of students, providing tasks for different ages and abilities within each term (years 1-8/Forms I-III).
In using Tierra, my hope is that your family will feel awakened to the joys of language learning and left with a desire to learn more Spanish or other languages as they move on from this program.
“Those who have used them know what Miss Mason’s Geography Books do for the children, how they present pictures of the sport to the mind’s eye, and treat of those matters which the traveller and reader seek to be instructed upon, leaving a taste and a desire to read more about it all later on.
Foreign languages may be taught in the same way, though here the teacher has even more help in the materials she is using, for she has as her handmaid, the beautiful imagery of the language she is teaching, the joy of the sound and rhythm of the beautiful words. But she, as well as her pupil, must see the fresh horizon that opens out and the new light that plays upon her own language, as it is made more intelligible through the study of a foreign tongue, teacher and taught must be inspired by the sympathy towards those who are strangers to them and whose language has hitherto been but a sound in their ears.”
[PNEU article by E.A. Parish, Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-balanced Mind. Volume 25, no.5, 1914, pp. 379-390.]