WOL-Spanish Elem Year 1

The Spanish Elementary 1 course consists of 180 lesson days formatted in an intuitive calendar view. The content for each week is based on an immersive Diglot Weave™ story which runs throughout the course with weekly episodes beginning in English and each day weaving in more Spanish. Although the course focuses principally on vocabulary acquisition, basic grammar principles are intuitively grasped through the story, games, activities, and assessments. In addition, students learn to perform a different simple story each semester. Culture lessons are presented through multimedia CultureGrams™—lessons covering cultural aspects of major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas. Students engage in language learning in a rewarding, low-stress environment; get comfortable with the sounds and rhythms of Spanish; comprehend more than 600 vocabulary words; begin to read, write, speak and listen for meaning in Spanish; give simple performances (e.g. songs, stories, etc.) in Spanish; and recognize distinctive practices and products of various Spanish-speaking countries.