Papá Querido by Aída Bortnik Reading Comprehension Study Guide Activities

Papá Querido is a one act play by Aída Bortnik of Argentina and is of the short story genre that proliferated during the tumultuous seventies and eighties in Latin America. The play provides a wonderful opportunity for students to interact and to analyze the psychological motivation of each of the four main protagonists who have gathered together, each one with their own motivations for attendance. (Approximates intermediate-advanced levels of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. Appropriate for 3rd year language learner level and above, Immersion, Heritage Speaker, Advanced Placement and Baccalaureate courses).

Included (For print-based and digital activities with options to add text boxes, special instructions, images and highlight. Available as a PDF or Google Slides format):

•Brief historical perspective (Argentina of the 70s and 80s - In English)

•Brief biography of Aída Bortnik (English or Spanish-only versions)

•Reading comprehension word bank (Bilingual and Spanish-only versions)

•Reading comprehension study guide worksheets (sentence level question and response for written and verbal communication or testing)

•Vocabulary in context fill-in worksheets (Spanish-only and Bilingual versions)

•Reading comprehension matching activity

•True-False reading comprehension activity (English and Spanish versions)

•Finish-the-sentence worksheet (Spanish-only)

•List of characters (Personal profile worksheet)

•Student perspective prompts (Essay writing)

•Student instructions (English and Spanish-only)

•Daily lesson suggestions (Teacher procedures with differentiation)

•Answer keys for all worksheets

•Scoring rubrics (reading, writing and speaking)

The PDF version of the True-False reading comprehension activity about Aída Bortnik includes teacher instructions and an optional click and drag activity that can be sent to student devices for an individual or whole-class activity.

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