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- A collection of multimedia texts from a variety of different sources (movies, radio, songs, TV) that teachers can use as the basis for activities

- Extensive library of digital texts (including children's literature and museums) from Colombia

Carol Stacy's Wiki - Many activities and cultural materials from Carol Stacy (CRS) of FLTEACH fame that are appropriate for advanced Spanish classes (AP, Spanish for Spanish Speakers, etc.).

- Links to information about the activities and resources available at the Spanish Resource Center located at the corner of University Avenue and University Parkway on the BYU Campus in Provo, Utah

- Activities, games, stories, and worksheets students can listen to and read in Spanish (and other languages)

- Links to articles about cultural perspectives on a host of different topics in Spanish

- A database of culturally authentic Creative Commons images, organized by language and topic

- Website containing links to cultural listening activities, myths, legends, and grammar/vocab.-oriented listening activities with easy, medium, or hard levels, transcripts, and cloze exercises available for the various texts

- Culture-based websites in Spanish

- Searchable database of language maintenance/proficiency development lessons (reading and listening) in a wide variety of languages. Allows you to limit the search to video-based lessons. Click on the individual links to launch the lesson modules

- A wiki (similar to Wikipedia) devoted exclusively to issues of linguistics

- Links to articles and units organized based on the Spanish AP themes, along with links for finding lots of other culturally authentic resources in Spanish

[|Juvenile Books in Spanish (at the Harold B. Lee Library)] - Lists of the children's picture books currently available for check-out from the collection (organized by year of publication)

- Check out CDs of music, content materials, [|culture kits], flags, and/or maps from the [|Outreach Resource Library] at BYU's Kennedy Center for free. The Center can also help you schedule [|free presentations] for your classroom regarding specific countries. You may also wish to explore their [|CultureGuides] --country-specific teaching units for both elementary and secondary classes

[|Lingüística y pedagogía del español] - An open Facebook group where students and professors can discuss items related to these topics

[|Materiales] - Lessons and materials grounded in culture from the Embassy of Spain

- Today's front pages from newspapers around the world

- Self-correcting grammar practice activities

- List of audio courses and podcasts in a variety of languages, including Spanish & Portuguese

- Music

- Site in Argentina containing Quino comics & Mafalda videos

- Links to essays and stories narrated for radio (some are very imaginative)

- Links to audio texts, read/performed by native speakers, and searchable by language, country, topic, and type of text (commentaries, interviews, legends, news, news magazines, radio novels, radio plays, podcasts, poetry, reports, short stories, songs, etc.)

[|Realidades, Hip Hop Songs] - Realidades text book has created songs specifically for the Spanish classroom in popular styles such as hip hop, reggaeton, and cumbia. They are a fantastic tool! Note that each song is embedded within each lesson.

- Excellent grammar practice activities based on culturally authentic multimedia materials

- Videos of native speakers from different Spanish-speaking countries, organized by level

- Images
 * [|Spanish Art]
 * [|Spanish Culture]
 * [|Spanish Food]
 * [|Spanish Places]
 * [|Spanish-speaking People]

- A useful site for drill-like practice exercises

- Videos of lessons taught entirely in different target languages, organized by topic

- Videos of lessons taught entirely in different target languages, organized by grade level, performance level, National Standards, and teaching strategies.

- Short news stories from around the world in Spanish

[|Thematic Units from the National K-12 Foreign Language Resources Center]

[|YouTube - EDU] - Search for educational videos in Spanish

Blog by Zachary Jones with links to materials in Spanish that reflect popular culture

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