Placido Language Resources

Los pollitos dicen Teacher’s Guide and Audiobook

Los pollitos dicen Teacher's Guide and Audiobook

$25.00 + tax where applicable

This flexible, ready-to-use teacher guide accompanies the reader Los pollitos dicen by Kristy Placido and makes teaching the story a joy from start to finish. With daily plans, printables, games, cultural readings, and both proficiency-based and traditional assessments, this resource helps you create a fun, meaningful learning experience for novice Spanish students.

Categories: ,

Description

Los pollitos dicen – Teacher Guide + Audiobook Bundle

Bring the beloved children’s song Los pollitos dicen to life with this low-prep, novice-friendly Spanish unit based on the book Los pollitos dicen by Kristy Placido!

This complete teacher guide is designed to support beginning Spanish learners as they read, listen, move, sing, play, and respond to a sweet story about Mamá gallina and her pollitos. The unit helps students build confidence with repeated language, high-frequency verbs, simple comprehension tasks, and playful activities connected to the traditional song Los pollitos dicen.

Perfect for novice Spanish classes, exploratory Spanish, elementary Spanish, or any class that benefits from highly comprehensible, image-supported storytelling.

Teacher Guide

Everything you need for a complete 8-day unit of study:

  • Pre-Reading Lessons – Introduce the traditional song Los pollitos dicen, key vocabulary of the book, gestures, and chicken anatomy before reading.
  • Daily Lesson Plans – Step-by-step teaching notes organized into an 8-day sequence.
  • Song Activities – Includes a short student reading about the song, lyrics, English support, and picture manipulatives for active listening.
  • Vocabulary Support – Teach important verbs like decir, buscar, tener, querer, ir, sentarse, levantarse, comer, and dormir through slides, gestures, TPR, and games.
  • Interactive Games & Activities – Includes classroom favorites like El juego de los gestos, Matamoscas, Marker Partner, Two Truths and a Lie, BEEP!, The Last Word, and more.
  • Reading Support – The book is broken into three manageable parts, with comprehension tasks and follow-up options for each section.
  • Printable Student Pages – Ready-to-use worksheets, cognate activities, comprehension questions, matching activities, glyph, and assessment pages.
  • Listening + Reading Assessments – Includes a listening assessment based on the story and a reading assessment using a short parallel text, Mamá pata y sus patitos.
  • Low-Prep Flexibility – Use the full 8-day plan, shorten the unit, or choose the activities that best fit your students and schedule.

 

What’s Included :

  • Complete PDF Teacher Guide
  • Suggested 8-day lesson sequence
  • Student printables
  • Song reading and lyrics page
  • Song manipulatives
  • Vocabulary gesture activities
  • Matamoscas game
  • Chicken anatomy reading and follow-up
  • Cover Chat prompts
  • Cognate match-ups
  • Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 follow-up activities
  • Two Truths and a Lie prompts
  • BEEP! listening script
  • Perfect Pairs sequencing activity
  • The Last Word card game
  • Game board story review
  • Escoge la oración picture comprehension activity
  • Glyph activity
  • Listening assessment
  • Reading assessment

 

Why Teachers Love This Resource

✔️ Designed for novice Spanish learners
✔️ Built around repetition and comprehensible input
✔️ Connects a familiar children’s song to story-based learning
✔️ Includes active, playful activities for young or beginning learners
✔️ Offers both game-based and worksheet-based follow-up options
✔️ Easy to adapt for different class lengths and student needs
✔️ Includes listening and reading assessments for comprehension checks

 

Delivery Format

This resource is delivered as a PDF teacher guide with linked materials and printable student pages.

Teacher’s Guide written by: Dylan Brinkmann
Author: Kristy Placido
Proofer & Voice Artist: Nelly Andrade-Hughes

Related products