Montessori twist!
Montessori pedagogy provides fertile ground for language learning and acquisition.
Unfortunately, there is not a lot in the way of Montessori language teaching and learning materials for guides who strive to bring world languages into the learning experience for elementary aged students.
El Puente Bilingüe is here to help change that. Our curriculum harnesses first language Montessori learning practices and skills and transfers them to second language learning, empowering young scholars to become inquisitive and analytical lifelong language learners. Our scaffolded lessons and unique mastery track activity options are detailed in our guidebooks in a way that is easy for instructors to present. Our Montessori tracking system make organization and planning easy for guides.
Lower Elementary
Early Skills
Pre-k and up
Upper Elementary
Middle School
The entire curriculum is equivalent to a high school Spanish 1 class, spread out over several years to help students build a very strong foundation as a lifelong language learner.
Click the links provided below to find the sets that would best meet the needs of your student body.
Spark an interest! (Pre-K and older)
Introduce some basic vocabulary and practice pronunciation with these learning cards and books, or differentiate for older learners. This set is available as a download.
Spanish letters
Syllables
Diphthongs
Basic Colors
PreK Numbers
Shapes
Home Vocabulary
School Vocabulary
Family Vocabulary
Parts of Body
Clothing
Neighborhood
Nature
Greetings
Feelings
Actions
Descriptions
Laying the Groundwork
This set is appropriate for lower or upper elementary, ages 7 and older. The beginner topics and skills covered can be taught as prerequisites to or along with the next learning package.
Who We Are and What We Do
Learners reinforce the prerequisite topics and skill and expand their vocabulary as they explore pronouns and verbs. This set can also be used in conjunction with the Laying the Groundwork set, and a suggested scope and sequence is provided.
Components of “Laying the Groundwork” and “Who We Are and What We Do”
The Guidebook
Each pack comes with a guidebook with lessons written for all of the topics and skills. The lessons are intended to be short, and they give the guide suggested verbiage, ideas for activities that will promote exploration, collaborative and independent learning, assessment ideas, and anticipated questions or challenges. Printables for reflection and tracking are included.
Boxes and Cards
The boxes are skillfully crafted to fit right into a Montessori learning environment. Get our Deluxe boxes (shown here) or consider our “Eco” boxes, shown on our site. Various options are available (digital and printed) for the learning cards. The cards arrive with a detailed guidebook for organization.
Build bilingual bridges with us!
El Puente Bilingüe is here to support educators as they implement our curriculum. We offer:
- Onboarding and trouble-shooting
- Options for guides who are not fluent Spanish speakers.
- Options for scheduled Q&A support
- Coming soon... Video lessons for your students!
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