Anchors & Aides by Amy

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Happy New Year! Bonne année! Frohes Neues Jahr!
Support Student Conversations with the The New Year Chat Mat!

Just $5!!

Versions in Spanish, French and German!

Break the ice of the new semester by scaffolding meaningful conversations about New Year's plans, hopes and wishes that build learners' confidence and language proficiency the very first day back from winter break. The New Year Chat Mat is the ultimate resource for fostering speaking and writing in the interpersonal and presentational modes of communication for students at any level of their language studies.

Why Use The New Year Chat Mat?

🌟 Enhance Conversational Skills: Dive into real-life scenarios and dialogues related to expressing plans, wishes, and resolutions in the target language effortlessly.

🎉 Support Literacy Development: Present the language forms, vocabulary and questions needed to sustain conversations with others in context with high levels of visual support to help learners make meaning easily and build sentences that are personalized.

📚 Practical and Relevant Content: Say goodbye to outdated textbooks and hello to relevant, up-to-date content that will prepare you to navigate conversations about New Year's intentions with classroom peers AND native speakers.

🗣️ Develop Language Proficiency: Design learning activities that have learners operating in all 3 of the Communicative Modes from the moment the lesson starts.

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Hey everyone! I have a few new items in the store today in Spanish and French. Come check them out! Previews below.
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It's a quiet Christmas Eve here, so I created a new Chat Mat! El alfabeto y la pronunciación is the Spanish alphabet framed as a conversation. Great for that beginning of the school year unit, but also as a reference for pronunciation later on. Only $3.50 on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Product Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Chat-Mat-El-alfabeto-y-la-pronunciacion-7556775

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