It’s Saturday, October 27, 2018, and time for Foreign Languages at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
(pacomova.eresmas.net/paginas/videocuentos/videocuentos.htm)
Age Range: 11-18 (Grades 6-12, with parental supervision)
This page, part of a larger ad-supported Spanish website, provides video presentations of stories for children in Spanish.
We thought that this would be a fun addition to your Spanish class and provide your students with listening and reading practice.
Because this is an all-Spanish website, if you do not read Spanish, you can use the translation function of your browser to change the page content to English. If you are a Chrome user, when you first arrive at the site a pop-up should appear asking if you would like to translate the page. Doing this will allow you to see the story titles in English. Alternatively, you could choose not to have the page translated for more challenging language practice for the student.
Select a video you would like to watch using the text links under the images. Some of the stories have more than one video breaking them into shorter segments. We did find that a couple of the links brought up error messages on the videos, but the others played fine. Some familiar tales include:
- El Patito Feo – The Ugly Duckling
- La Princesa y el Guisante – The Princess and the Pea
- Pulgarcita – Thumbelina
- El Ruiseñor – The Nightingale
- La Sirenita – The Little Mermaid
- Caperucita Roja – Little Red Riding Hood
- El Traje Nuevo del Emperador – The Emperor’s New Clothes
- La Princesa de las Nieves – The Snow Princess
- Los Tres Cerditos – The Three Little Pigs
- La Liebre y la Tortuga – The Tortoise and the Hare
- La Gallina de los Huevos de Oro – The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
And more.
At the bottom of the page there is a text link that will take you to the website home page (Volver a la página principal). On the home page, visitors can browse through hundreds of stories to read online, all sorted alphabetically. If you had previously selected to have the page translated into English, in order to read the stories in Spanish, you will need to either copy the page link and open in a new window or go back to the video page, and refresh to get back to the Spanish version. The home page has right-click disabled so it is not possible to update language options using that method.
Scroll under the alphabet selection section to find additional links to pictogram stories, over 150 Hans Christian Andersen stories, over 100 stories from India and more.
Although we suggest using this site as a tool for older language students, younger children may enjoy watching the videos or having the stories read to them by an older student.
