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A great resource for German, ESL, French, Spanish and Russian teachers. Download lesson ideas, worksheets and much more

Audio-Lingua offers mp3 recordings in several languages, at several levels of study.  You can select by theme, length, voice (male/female)

Excellent native-speaker audio clips (from 15 - 120 seconds long) available in multiple languages and filtered by proficiency level.

This is an awesome YouTube channel by Sylvia Duckworth. I would use her Chansons au Powerpoint to pre-teach vocabulary and then reinforce the learning with the music/PowerPoint combination.  Other videos offer a plethora of topics that can be used in your classroom.  Her use of GoAnimate inspires me to have my students create similar projects to tell stories.   Although in French, the ideas are easily used in Spanish and other WL classrooms. 

Google doc of authentic resources for Spanish language teachers. Can be used for lesson planning needing some authentic links.

My Food Plate graphics, lesson plans, etc. from USDA in Spanish and English. Good for lessons on food, health and nutrition.

LanguageGuide.org is an online language learning resource available in numerous languages ranging from English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, to Korean. This illustrated vocabulary guide contains sound-integrated exercises at three levels -- beginner, intermediate, and advanced, and allows for independent practice at the learner's own pace. These practice exercises are appropriate for elementary and middle school students and this resource would be well suited on a teacher webpage. Thematic topics vary by language but generally include numbers, parts of the body, clothing, food, animals, weather, home, and school. There is an option menu on each screen for listening, speaking, and reading practice, as well as a quiz for students to check their comprehension. Some languages also feature a Grammar and Readings section for more advanced learners.

The Office of State Assessment for New York provides comprehensive exams for French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Available are past exams, teacher dictation sheets, and scoring keys including rubrics to assess student performance. Several past exams are provided for free.

One of the teachers in my division sent me this link. The site has reproducible graphic organzers in Spanish and ideas on how to use them. You will have to print the graphic organizers to use them, but they have some possibilities.

I shared this with my colleagues one of whom shared it further and a college professor of future language teachers loved it and was quite appreciative of it. So, thanks for sharing. We never know how far a great link or idea will travel.

Wow, thanks Sheila.

A reference website for students of Spanish

Authentic material for several Spanish teachers

Spanish exercises and grammar activities

I am interested in using this in exchange with a Spanish-speaking country

This is a "trilingual index of expressions with equivalent meanings" in English, Spanish, and French/Québécois. The colorful idioms are often difficult to translate directly, so this resource is very useful and fun!

Spanish storytelling 

This resource from el Centro Virtual Cervantes provides video interviews with individuals from a number of regions or cities in Latin America and Spain. Each interview is accompanied by a description of the linguistic characteristics of a particular way of speaking, a text transcript, and information on where the region is located geographically. I personally find this fascinating! I also think it could serve as a resource for students who might not be aware of how many variations there are when Spanish is spoken.

words of wisdom!

Cindy, can we keep this group going even after the class is over? The amount of resources shared is incredible. Maria