Italian Family Unit BUNDLE - La famiglia

This bundle is a comprehensive and engaging resource that you and your students will LOVE during your Italian Family Unit! Topics include: la famiglia vocabulary, essere, avere, possessive adjectives, and descriptive adjectives. This bundle includes 6 amazing resources that add up to over 250 pages worth of materials. 

The overarching goal of this resource is to ensure that your students will learn target vocabulary and grammar and that they have fun while doing it! Minimal prep is required, which will save you tons of time planning and prepping; however, there are also many editable elements in this bundle to ensure that you are able to customize it to best suit your and your students' needs. Answer Keys included for all activities and assessments!

In this bundle you will find vocabulary and grammar activities, games, speaking activities, assessments, writing task cards, extension activities, assessment tools, a project and a presentation, and so much more! Below you will find a link to each of the 6 resources and a description of what is included in each of them.

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1. Vocabulary Activities & Assessments

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✶ Vocabulary List (20+ words!)

✶ Flashcards (2 versions!)

✶ Word Search & Crossword Puzzle 

✶ Printable Practice Worksheets (x6)

• Matching Activity
• Gap-fill Activity
• Family Tree Analysis Activity
• Question Answering & Sentence Writing
• Sentence Revisions
• Trova l'intruso Activity

✶ Interpretive Reading Activities

• Logico o Illogico? Reading Comprehension Activity
• Family Tree Cut & Paste Interpretive Reading Activity

✶ Writing Activity

✶ Memory Game 

✶ Exit Tickets 

✶ Quiz (2 versions!)

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2. Grammar Activities & Assessments (essere, avere, possessive adjectives, descriptive adjectives)

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✶ Il verbo essere

• Verb Tutorial: Using essere to talk about la famiglia
• Printable Practice Worksheets (x3) 
• Exit Ticket

✶ Il verbo avere

• Verb Tutorial: Using avere to talk about la famiglia
• Printable Practice Worksheets (x3) 
• Exit Ticket

✶ Gli aggettivi possessivi 

• EDITABLE Google Slides Presentation
• EDITABLE Google Doc Student Notes Template
• Graphic Organizers (x2)
• Printable Practice Worksheets (x5)
• Possessive Adjectives Scoot Activity
• Dice Game
• Exit Tickets & Quiz

✶ Gli aggettivi qualificativi

• Tutorial Handout & Vocabulary List
• Printable Practice Worksheets (x2) 
• Exit Ticket & Quiz

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3. Speaking Activities & Assessments

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✶  Directions & Suggestions for Implementation

• Detailed directions and suggestions for implementation are included for each activity.

✶  Family Tree Analysis Speaking Activity

• In this whole-class speaking activity, students will use targeted vocabulary and language structures from the Family Unit to ask and answer questions about a family tree.

✶ Information Gap

• In this paired speaking activity, Student A and Student B will ask each other questions and provide responses about their respective family tree to help their partner fill in missing information. 

✶ Interpersonal Conversations (Q&A)

• Students will ask and answer open-ended questions about a family tree in this paired speaking activity.

✶ Trova qualcuno che…

• Students will survey their classmates to find out more information about their family members in this whole-class speaking activity. 

✶ Sondaggio

• Using possessive adjectives and descriptive adjectives, students will survey their classmates and ask them to provide descriptive details about their family members.

✶ Speaking Assessment

• Use this assessment to formatively gauge how your students are able to use the vocabulary and grammar in a communicative context.

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4. Task Cards

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✶ Directions & Suggestions for Implementation

✶  Master List of Task Card Questions

✶  Family Tree Printout

• Students will be answering questions based on this family tree, that you can either project in the class or print out for students to reference!

✶  30 Printable Task Cards (2 versions - 60 cards in total!)

• Version 1: Multiple Choice Format // Version 2: Open-Ended, Short Answer Format
• Just print and cut them out - minimal prep required! 
• Laminate them so that you can reuse them year after year!

✶  Task Card Student Response Sheets

✶  Answer Keys

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5. Italian Family Tree Project

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✶  Detailed Directions & Suggestions for Implementation 

• Several pages worth of helpful information regarding best practices for implementing this project, along with my personal tips & tricks for success!

✶ EDITABLE Family Tree Project Handout

• Everything that your students need to know about this project.
• Comes as an editable Google Doc AND a non-editable PDF (just print & go!) 

✶ EDITABLE Family Tree Project Checklist

• A checklist for students to ensure they are meeting all requirements of the project and staying organized.

✶ EDITABLE Project  Rubrics (x3)

• THREE detailed rubrics to assess student performance. Pick the one that best suits your needs!  

✶  Extension Activity

• Have students view their classmates’ family tree projects and answer questions in Italian about their classmates’ families.

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6. Viva la famiglia! - Italian Family Unit Oral Presentation

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✶  Detailed Directions & Suggestions for Implementation 

• Several pages worth of helpful information regarding best practices for implementing this presentation, along with my personal tips & tricks for success!

✶ EDITABLE Viva la famiglia! Presentation Handout

• Everything that your students need to know about this project.
• Comes as an editable Google Doc AND a non-editable PDF (just print & go!) 

✶ EDITABLE Presentation Checklist

• A checklist for students to ensure they are meeting all requirements of the project and staying organized.

✶ EDITABLE Presentation Rubrics (x3)

• THREE detailed rubrics to assess student performance. Pick the one that best suits your needs!  

✶  Listening Comprehension Activity

• Don’t let your audience be passive while their classmates are presenting!  With this activity, all students will be engaged as they listen closely and extrapolate the most salient details from their classmates’ presentations.