Verbos en presente
Conjugar verbos regulares de las tres terminaciones: hablar, comer, vivir.
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How to run it
Group by verb rather than by person. Four forms of hablar in a row make the pattern visible — the stem stays and the ending changes — and mixing the three verbs before one is secure produces confusion. Comer and vivir share three of their four endings here, which is worth pointing out once hablar is solid. Ten minutes covers one verb properly.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentPresent the item and wait 5 seconds of quiet before helping.Log as correct
- HintStress the part of the sentence that changes, or point to the word ending.Log as cued
- Sentence starterSay the first half of the sentence and let the student finish it.Log as cued
- ModelSay the correct form in the whole sentence; the student repeats it.Log as cued
Adjust it
Give a sentence starter every time, and do fewer cards.
Ask for a new sentence of the student's own with the same form, with no card to lean on.
Matching IEP goal
Given sentence cards, Student will produce the target grammatical form in sentences in 8 of 10 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than an indirect cue.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
Twelve Spanish conjugations across the three regular verb endings: hablar gives hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos; comer gives como, comes, come, comemos; vivir gives vivo, vives, vive, vivimos. Spanish marks the person on the verb itself, which is why the pronoun is often dropped and why the ending carries so much information.
What to listen for
Listen for the ending carrying the person. A student who says yo hablas has the verb and not the agreement, which is different from not knowing the verb at all. Watch comemos and vivimos, where the -er and -ir verbs differ in the nosotros form — the one place the two patterns come apart in this set.
Carrying it home
Spanish conjugation is heard constantly at home and rarely commented on. Recasting rather than correcting — sí, tú hablas mucho — gives the form back in a real sentence without stopping the conversation.
What's in this activity
- yo ___ español (hablar) hablo
- tú ___ mucho (hablar) hablas
- él ___ con la maestra (hablar) habla
- nosotros ___ en la clase (hablar) hablamos
- yo ___ una manzana (comer) como
- tú ___ rápido (comer) comes
- ella ___ el almuerzo (comer) come
- nosotros ___ juntos (comer) comemos
- yo ___ en Texas (vivir) vivo
- tú ___ cerca (vivir) vives
- él ___ con su abuela (vivir) vive
- nosotros ___ aquí (vivir) vivimos
Questions
- Is this activity in Spanish?
- Yes, all twelve items are Spanish. This page is in English so an English-speaking clinician can find and evaluate it.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free with no login.
- Why does Spanish drop the pronoun?
- Because the verb ending already says who is doing it. Hablo can only mean I speak, so yo is optional — which is why the endings carry more weight than they do in English.
Use this board with your caseload
With a free account, every correct, cued and incorrect mark is saved to the student and scored against their IEP goal, with the data written up for you. Assign it as home practice through the parent portal.
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