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Using Spanish to talk about information that your child already knows is an effective way of exposing her to the language. If a child is familiar with certain information, she can draw on what she knows to understand Spanish. This is one way of providing comprehensible input, and comprehensible input is essential to language acquisition.

School-age children are familiar with basic geography and maps. Doing geography activities in Spanish and reading Spanish picture books related to geography are good ways to expose children to vocabulary and structures in a context where they understand the language. In addition, many country names and geography terms are cognates, that is, words that are similar in Spanish and English. This makes them easier to learn, but unless a child hears and reads these words, she has no way of knowing that they are cognates. Children absorb this vocabulary by working with geography concepts in Spanish.

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