Spanish 1+ Informational Text|Global Challenges|Education| 15+ Activities
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Help your students learn about education in other countries! Below is a collection of mostly informational texts that inform students about the characteristics, conditions, and challenges of school in different countries. These challenges include: 1. The difficulty in securing school supplies and paPrice $14.40Original Price $18.00Save $3.60
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Description
Why wait until students are in upper-level classes to engage them in real-world problems and issues? I don't wait, and neither should you! With this comprehensible informational text resource, you can not only inform students about the educational challenges faced around the world, but you can inspire them to be proactive in solving their own issues. As such, "Los desafíos educativos" provides a peek into the world of education in two countries: Nicaragua and Bangladesh.
How to use this resource
This mini-unit can be used as part of a unit on education (as I did with my students) or as supplemental readings.
I created and used this mini-unit at the end of Spanish I semester II. It can also be used as part of a unit on education at the beginning of Spanish 2 as most of the structures are present tense featuring a load of cognates.
Vocabulary & Structures
- A substantial amount of school vocabulary such as school supplies, references to uniforms, and clothing.
- References to the economy and flooding (as experienced by segments of the two countries talked about).
Resources provided
- Detailed lesson plan suggestions on how to engage students with the resource. Extended activities are offered as well (6 pages)
- Links to video referenced. Both the Youtube and the Google Drive links are provided.
- Pre-reading graphic organizer. Students list some of the educational challenges they are aware of (scaffolding and suggestions provided)
- Read and rank challenges in order of importance issues
- New vocabulary activity
- Video listening activity: Los precios elevados de los útiles escolares (Nicaragua). Guided practice for segments of the video.
- Non-fiction text (related to the video): La educación en Nicaragua; glossary included
- Cognate connection & translation activity related to the text
- Post-reading keyword activity
- Post-reading true/false activity
- Post-reading response (English/Spanish)
- Picture talk: Una escuela diferente
- Cognate Connection for next text
- Non-fiction text: Una escuela diferente (the video is in English; however the texts regarding the video and the innovator are both in Spanish))
- Comprehension questions
- Biography of Bangladesh Innovator who created the different school to solve environmental issues
- Comprehension questions
- Short text: scenario-based text & comprehension questions
- Student engagement activity: define problems and solutions within your own school
- Cultural comparison
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