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Orient your Spanish courses toward proficiency with communicative, comprehension-based instructional strategies that bring together language and culture from Day 1.
TEACH FOR PROFICIENCY
WHAT THE SOMOS CURRICULUM IS
WHAT THE SOMOS CURRICULUM DOES
The Somos Curriculum is a comprehension based curriculum
Our brains are absolutely incredible—and they are designed for language acquisition. After four decades of research in the area of second language acquisition, it is clear that language is acquired not from practice (drills), but from consistent and constant exposure to input. Input is indispensable to language acquisition: language cannot be acquired without it. The SOMOS curriculum supports teachers in communicating with their students in comprehensible Spanish every day in class.
SOMOS is a proficiency oriented curriculum
Through the course of each unit, students use all four communicative skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Its student-centered lessons bring together language and culture in each lesson sequence, preparing students for the real world.
The Somos Curriculum incorporates many comprehension-based strategies:
Collaborative Storytelling (TPRS®)