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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJbHmgaeDM
This is a fun way to introduce the Spanish Alphabet into the classroom. It is catchy and informative and bring the different culture into the classroom.
This would be for any age and for anyone knew to the Spanish Language
Teaching Idea: I would have my students perform the alphabet individually after practicing it and when they feel comfortable.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLQSdu4V94
This is a fun way to introduce colors in Spanish to your classroom. It is a slow pace and a fun song.
Teaching Idea: After hearing the song a couple times I will give the students several different items all with different colors. As they are singing the song I will have them hold up the color. After doing that a couple times I will just say a color in Spanish and have them hold up the item that is that color.
This video could be any age if they are new to the Spanish language.

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Author: Marisa Montes
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Publication date: September 19, 2000
Genre: Fiction
Interest Level: 6th-8th Grade
Approximate Text Level: 390 Lexile
Brief Teaser: Juan Bobo is a hard working hispanic boy who just can't seem to do anything right. He has several different jobs where each day he is getting paid with something different. Everyday something bad happens to his payment, whether that be milk, cheese, ham, etc. Juan always stay positive and does his best.
Teaching Idea: After reading the story I will have the students write an essay about a time when they thought they could not do anything right. I will have them be very descriptive and if they can not think of a time I will have them make one up.

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Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date:1990
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level:4th-7th grade
Approximate Text Level: 830 L
Brief Teaser: A young hispanic boy named Jesse and his brother Micheal have been practicing for baseball tryouts all summer. The time finally comes and although Jesse doesn't do as well as he hoped Michael was performing great. After tryouts they waited and waited for a call but never got one. Soon they find out that a local coach is putting together a team to play in a league just for fun. The boys end up going out for the team and making it. Jesse is the only one who sticks with it however, they have lost all their games so far and more and more boys start not showing up. Will the season turn around?
Teaching Idea: For this story during the middle of the story before the change of events happen I will have my students write two short paragraphs predicting what is going to happen with Jesse and the team.

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Author: Monica Brown
Publisher:
Publication Date:2011
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level:K-3rd grade
Approximate Text Level: M
Brief Teaser: A young Hispanic girl named Ana loves stories. She either reads to her younger brother every night or makes the stories up herself. The village she lives in though only has a handful of books and she has read all of them several times. One morning she wakes up to clicking of hooves and she goes outside to see a traveling library.
Teaching Idea: After reading this story I will have my students make their own short story related to Hispanic culture that would go on the traveling library cart.

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Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: December 1999
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level:PreK-3rd grade
Approximate Text Level: 510 L
Brief Teaser: Weekends are very special days for the child in the story because on Saturdays she visits her grandparents that come from a European-American background. On Sundays however she visits with her grandparents on the other side that are Mexican-American. Although there are several difference between the family there are some similarities. The story shows both sides of different cultures.
Teaching Idea: For this story I will have my students make a ven-diagram. I will have them list examples of each of their cultures and what is different and then I will have them list the similarities. I will make sure to help the students as well.

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Author: Roseanne Thong
Publisher: John Parra
Publication date: February 18, 2014
Genre: Fiction
Approximate interest level: PreK-2nd
Approximate text level: ARL
Brief Teaser: A Mexican family shows how all the colors of the rainbow go into their everyday life. The picture book shows their culture and background through pictures and words. It shows the food they eat and much more.
Teaching Idea: I print out pictures of the foods from the text and have them color each item the color that book says the item is.

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Author: Meg Medina
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Date: August 25th, 2015
Genre: Fiction
Approximate interest level: K-2nd grade
Approximate Text Level: AD 750 Lexile
Brief teaser: A young hispanic girl named Mia is very excited when her abuela (or grandmother) arrives to stay with her and her family in the city. Mia speaks english and abuela speaks Spanish so they have a difficult time communicating and telling stories like they wish to. Although they are trying to teach each other English and Spanish it is very difficult. One day when Mia is walking by a pet store one day she sees a parrot and that is when she gets a great idea on how to communicate a little better with abuela.
Teaching Idea: After reading the story I will ask the students to picture them with their grandparents, parents, or a loved one and think about trying to communicate with them and telling them how your day was, or the other way around and not being able to understand one another. I would want them to understand how frustrating that might be, then I would like the students to write down why that might be difficult for them and sad.

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https://youtu.be/nUklGzMrHQg
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes song
This is a fun activity to introduce students to a couple Spanish words but also for Latino students. If the class sometimes listens to only English music this could make a latino student very happy.
Teaching Idea: Give the students a list of simple words in Spanish and have them make up their own fun song and dance.

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Author: Celia C. Pérez
Publisher: Viking
Publication date: August 22, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 4th-7th grade
Approximate text level: Lower middle school
Brief teaser: 12 year old MalÚ is a biracial, Latina girl who is just moving to a new school. She only wants to be herself when she is getting judged for not being seen as Latino enough because she is very punk.
Teaching Idea:Use the examples that MalÚ uses in the story about being herself and loving punk and compare it to yourself. Give examples of something you love and how you want to reach that goal. We will turn this into a one page paper.

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Author: Pablo Cartaya
Publication date: May 16,2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 4th - 8th grade
Approximate text level: Lower Middle School
Brief teaser: 13 year old Arturo Zamora is trying his best to save his grandmothers restaurant, get the new girl who just moved into his apartment complex who makes him very nervous and also make his grandmother proud. Will he be able to do all of this or will it be an epic fail?
Teaching idea: Break the class into small groups and each group  will have a character, they will write a short summary about the character that they have and they will make a poster with illustrations and facts from the story and of the character. They will present in front of the whole class.

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Author: Liz Rivera
Illustrator: Disney storybook Art team
Publication date: October 10, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest level: 2nd to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: Grade school
Brief teaser: A young boy named Miguel loves singing and playing the guitar, there is only one problem. His family will not let him do this because they have banned music from their family. Miguel is a huge fan of Ernesto De la Cruz, a musician who passed away. Miguel wants to be just like him. The family is preparing for Dia de los muertos when something unimaginable happens with Miguel and his dog. He gets all the answers he needs.
Teaching idea: Print out an animated picture of a guitar and have the students color the guitar and write all the main characters each guitar string.

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Author: Susan Middleton Elya
Illustrator: Juana Martinez-Neal
Publication date: September 5, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest level: 2nd to 3rd grade
Approximate text level: Grade school
Brief teaser: A prince is looking for a wife when one day a beautiful woman comes by his home and is looking for a place to sleep. She explains that she is a princess but the princes mother just does not believe it. The Prince falls for the princess but the mother is not having it yet. She is going to test the princess to see if that is actually what she is but she can't let the son or the princess know what she is up to.
Teaching idea: Make a 3-D version of the "test" the mother gave the princess.

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Author: Xelena Gonzàlez
Illustrated: Adriana Garcia
Published by:Cinco Puntos Press
Publication date: October 3, 2017
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Interest Level: Pre-K to 2nd grade
Approximate text level: M
Brief teaser: A young hispanic girl and her grandfather are walking around a town and he begins comparing everything to a circle, both physically and metaphorically. Showing a little bit of their culture and how he believes that everything that they take from the earth must be returned. Soon the young girl starts doing the same and believing the same as the grandfather.
Teaching Idea: Give the student a list of physical and metaphorical examples, have the students make a list of the ones that are physical and the ones that are metaphorical to make sure they understand the difference. Make sure this is done before the reading.

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Author: Ruth Behar
Publication date: April 11, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate interest level: 6th grade
Approximate text level: Lower middle school
Brief teaser: A young Cuban immigrant girl is working on adjusting to her new life in NYC. AS she is just becoming confident in her English speaking and schooling her world gets turned upside down after a horrible car accident.
Teaching idea: The activity that I have in mind is comparing Ruths heritage and culture to her friend Ramus. In the story they give examples of each so the students can use the details from the story.
Teaching Idea: Character Developing.  Have the students Draw out each character and then explain everything they know about each character. Ex.) What they look like, their personality, what they like/dislike, name, age, etc.