Lily Dee asked, “Realidades Yr 1 users, what kinds of PAID supplementary materials or subscriptions do you purchase to enhance what you are doing in the first 6 chapters? Looking for engaging materials for my middle schoolers (grades 6-8.) 
I teach seventh, eighth and ninth grade Spanish 1 in a district that also uses Realidades 1 and I have created three categories of supplemental materials based on students needing minute-by-minute visual and audio support to stay on task and in the target language. As I describe in my book you need to make a few slides for each lesson. They can be in PPT, ActivInspire, SmartNotebook, which ever you use to project onto the screen in your room. Make a slide for each activity in the lesson.
First category, insert transition videos in-between your activities.
You can:
Here is the list of the 50 videos now available in Spanish.
Second category, use one of my daily tech guides – meaning a PPT of 50 – 150 slides for each day so that there is visual support for the complete 50 minute lesson.
They are sold individually or in bundles.
After I teach a lesson, it takes a couple of hours for me to put them into PPT as I use Activ Inspire and to document it so that it can be sold individually. It takes another 10 hours of work to bundle them. Some months I am able to do this, other months there are too many family and work obligations that I can’t keep up. My goal is to complete them next year as I teach the unit. If you haven’t seen a daily tech guide, you can down load for free the first day to get a feel for one. For more info, go to this previous blog.
Third category, direct instruction of survival vocabulary, including student – to – student interactions.
From what other teachers have told me, these three categories of activities complement all level one texts.
Have a good think about what you want to accomplish in level one and let me know how I can help you.
