High school informational text cultural activities for ESL-EFL-ELL

EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading, Spanish

Are you a Spanish teacher in a hurry? Often, it can be very difficult to make substitute plans for a foreign language class. We want our students to be able to answer the questions without feeling the need to translate. These are packets ready for you to print and go when you are in need of an emergency sub plan.Included in this bundle are four of my non-holiday specific emergency Spanish sub plans. You get four for the price of three. Each packet includes cultural readings in English and includ

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Worksheets, Homework, Cultural Activities

Spanish Restaurant Menu Project

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This is a restaurant menu project for Spanish I. Students will design a restaurant menu that serves traditional Spanish dishes from a Spanish-speaking country of their choice. This project includes an introduction page with all the project requirements, 2 restaurant menu examples, a 2-page project planner/graphic organizer, and a grading rubric for student presentations. Project Requirements: * A menu cover with the restaurant name in Spanish, the days and hours of operation, address, and phon

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Projects, Graphic Organizers, Cultural Activities

Grades:

6th - 12th

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Flags of Spanish-Speaking Countries Coloring Sheets

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This is a 2 page coloring activity with the 21 flags of the Spanish-speaking world. Students follow a color by number key to color in each section of the flags. Only five colors are needed: rojo, amarillo, verde, azul cielo, and azul (red, yellow, green, sky blue, and blue). This is a great activity when reviewing Spanish-speaking countries, Hispanic culture, holidays, colors, or as an emergency substitute activity. Can be printed 2 sided or separately. Makes a great classroom decoration. Exampl

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Grades:

K - 10th

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Also included in: Spanish Countries and Capitals Geography Bundle

Spanish-Speaking Countries, Capitals, and Nationalities Bundle

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This is a bundle of 15 resources over the 21 Spanish-Speaking Countries, Capitals, and Nationalities. In this bundle you will receive a Spanish-speaking country profile project, 2 map labeling activities, a matching quiz activity, 2 internet scavenger hunt activities, a 2 page coloring activity and a windsock craftivity with the 21 flags of the Spanish-speaking world, a passport mini booklet activity, an interactive notebook activity, 7 vocabulary activities, 3 vocabulary games, 2 grammar activi

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Projects, Cultural Activities

Grades:

6th - 12th

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Hispanic Heritage Month FOR GOOGLE SLIDES| One Person Each Day With Videos

Created by

Fresh Little Leaders

Hello and welcome to Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! This resource comes with 24 unique trailblazing Hispanic People to celebrate for the months of September and October. This resource is designed to be used in person OR digitally. 1. You can use this resource during morning class meeting to fit in relevant and diverse content. I share screen during our class meetings, and we discuss the slides/view the videos together2. This is a completely digital or in person way to celebrate Hispanic He

Subjects:

Hispanic Heritage Month, Holidays/Seasonal, Informational Text

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month SUPER RESEARCH BUNDLE

ESL Activities: Conversation Cards

Created by

A Classroom for All Seasons

These are 72 conversation cards for your ESL classroom. They can be used as a warm up activity and are a great way to get students settled in at the beginning of class. In addition, they can also be used as writing prompts. Each topic is color coded. The topics include• “Getting to Know You”• “Food”• “Your Neighborhood/ Housing”• “Free Time”• “Feelings/Emotions”• “The Past”• “Holidays”• “The Future”• “If…” (Conditional)ESL Conversation Cards Set 2 is available here ESL Activities: Conversatio

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, ESL / ELL / EFL

Grades:

6th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Cultural Activities

Also included in: ESL Speaking Activities: Bundle

Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1

Created by

Julie Faulkner

Engage and motivate students with these informational, expository text close reading assignments. These easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full lesson plan complete with a relevant video links, an argumentative writing prompt, and extension ideas! Plus, all the answers are here, too!Included:-Lesson Plans-Questions/Answers-Sub Plan-Prompts

Subjects:

Health, Informational Text

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Spanish

CCSS:

...

Hispanic Heritage Month: Digital Choice Board Activity {7-12}

Created by

Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month in September or incorporating more LatinX voices to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems, and stories.The goal of a choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate their interests and explore new ideas. This activity can be used as a bell ringer, a weekly activity, or a 1-2 day lesson plan with rea

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations

Papel Picado Tissue Banners

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This is a set of 5 papel picado templates for making a colorful tissue paper banner. This is a fun craft for secondary students to make and display when celebrating Hispanic holidays such as Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Heritage Month, or Mexico's Independence Day. You may choose to have younger students simply color in the templates and display them on the walls. These templates are available in both color and blackline. They make a great festive decoration as a boarder around your classroom walls.

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month Projects and Activities Bundle

Hispanic Heritage Month Projects and Activities Bundle

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Bulletin Board Ideas, Task Cards, Cultural Activities

This is a bundle of 5 resources to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. In this bundle you will receive 5 papel picado templates, a research project over famous Hispanic Americans, a research project over Hispanic holidays and traditions, a set of 48 task cards, and an internet scavenger hunt activity. Answer keys and examples are included. Purchase this bundle and save over 25% off the following resources: Papel Picado Tissue Banners Hispanic Heritage Month Project: Famous Hispanic Americans His

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Spanish

Grades:

6th - 12th

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Zootopia Movie Guide & Stereotypes Discussion

Created by

Jessica Fletcher Fierro

Zootopia is not only a great movie, but also has important ideas about stereotyping and how we treat each other in a diverse society. Thus, it's a perfect film to show students as a springboard to deeper content and thinking. So, I created this product to use in the middle school classroom, based on the film. This product is broken up into three parts: Part 1-Movie guide: students answer questions as they watch the movie, about the plot of the film. Part 2-Critical thinking: Students answer que

Subjects:

Informational Text, Literature, Writing

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Study Guides, Movie Guides, Cultural Activities

CCSS:

RL.7.2

, RL.7.3

, RL.7.6

ESL Newcomers Curriculum K-12 | ESL Activities | ESL Lesson Plans

Created by

Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher

A K-12 Newcomer Curriculum is here! Purchase the ELL Newcomer K-12 Curriculum today and you will have: A Yearlong Curriculum (7 units with clipart for younger ELL Newcomers) A Yearlong Curriculum (7 units with real photographs for older ELL Newcomers) 28 digital centers for younger ELL Newcomers28 digital centers for older ELL Newcomers 12 monthly speaking and writing picture promptsEnglish Language Proficiency Assessment (Printable and Digital)Newcomer Icebreaker Activities 30 Templates for Dig

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

K - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Independent Work Packet

Black History Month: Digital Choice Board Activity {7-12}

Created by

Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating Black History Month in February or incorporating more Black voices to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems, and stories.The goal of a choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate their interests and explore new ideas. This activity can be used as a bell ringer, a weekly activity, or a 1-2 day lesson plan with reading and discus

Subjects:

Black History Month, English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations

Spanish Quinceañeras: Reading and Substitute Plan

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading, Spanish

This reading a good emergency substitute plan to keep handy. It includes three articles on Quinceañeras as well as comprehension questions following each article. The articles are written in English, so any level of Spanish can use it. Also included is a crossword puzzle featuring some of the terms from the articles and a key.Also check out my Quinceañera planning project:My Dream Quinceañera Planning ProjectAnd my Quinceañera Puzzles Pack here with additional puzzles: Quinceañera Puzzles PackKe

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Cultural Activities

Thanksgiving Activities Nonfiction Lesson on Hot Topics: Black Friday

Created by

Julie Faulkner

This informational text lesson for Thanksgiving is ready-to-go to engage your high school students this November. With leveled texts, standards-based questions, creative activity, and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate! Student Experience: The encroachment of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Thursday has been a trend years in the making. This mini unit is designed to get students not only thinking and questioning this topic, but also analyzi

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Thanksgiving

Grades:

9th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Cultural Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

, CCRA.W.1

Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE

Spanish Date Vocabulary Bundle

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This is a bundle of 5 resources over days of the week, months of the year, seasons, and numbers 1-31 in Spanish. In this bundle you will receive, 48 Spanish task cards, 3 vocabulary activities, 2 sets of vocabulary games, a reference sheet with a list of 25 important dates and holidays in Mexico, and a Spanish date practice over Mexican holidays. Answer keys and examples are included. Purchase this bundle and save over 28% off the following resources: Spanish Days, Months, and Seasons Task Card

Subjects:

Printables, Task Cards, Cultural Activities

Grades:

3rd - 10th

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Spanish-Speaking Countries (Cultural Facts) Interactive Notebook Activity

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This is a 3 page interactive notebook activity over the 21 countries of the Spanish-speaking world. Students will color, cut, and paste the flags of the 21 Spanish-speaking countries to their notebooks. Next, students will flip up each flag and write one or two cultural facts about each country. Cultural facts may include information about the countries holidays, celebrations, traditions, beliefs, sports, music, and food. Instructions are given on the first page. This activity was designed to b

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Grades:

6th - 12th

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Also included in: Spanish Countries and Capitals Vocabulary Bundle

La Tomatina: Reading, Activities & Substitute Plan for Spanish Class

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Informational Text, Spanish

This packet includes reading passages and activities about the history and facts of La Tomatina. The reading includes three articles with questions and a crossword puzzle that follows. This is a great reading to keep in your emergency substitute plan file for your Spanish class. The reading is in English and includes a key. Key words: Spanish class, La Tomatina, Spain, sub plan, crossword puzzle

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Informational Text, Social Studies - History, Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Activities, Hot Topics Informational Text, Does True Love Last?

Created by

Julie Faulkner

Looking for a thoughtful, quick, and creative close reading lesson for Valentine's Day that covers several standards for your middle or high school students? I love to bring holiday themed lessons in when I can, but I am always very cautious to choose lessons that are standards-based. This mini-lesson meets both requirements perfectly! Student Experience: Students exercise summarizing and close reading skills as they read the article about a couple whose love brought them back together after s

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

, CCRA.W.2

Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1

ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities

Created by

My Adventures in ESL

Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au

Subjects:

Back to School, Close Reading, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Lesson

4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form

Created by

Moore English

This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.9-10.6

, RI.6.1

, RI.6.2

, RI.6.6

, RI.6.8

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Also included in: Things Fall Apart Synthesis Bundle / 9 resources / 100+ questions / 50+ pages

Machu Picchu: Reading, Activities, and Substitute Plan for Spanish Class

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Geography, Informational Text, Spanish

This is a reading passage about the history and facts of Machu Picchu. The reading includes three articles with questions and a crossword puzzle that follow. This is a great reading to keep in your emergency sub plan file for your Spanish class. The reading is in English and includes a key. You can easily modify this for your class by only using some of the articles, rather than all three. You can also check out my Machu Picchu puzzles pack that includes an additional crossword puzzle, a word

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Grades:

7th - 12th

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Language Resources by Nina

Alebrijes Mexican Folk Art: Cultural Reading (English version) SUB PLAN

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This 3-page file includes:~A reading that describes the history of Alebrijes, a Mexican Folk Art Tradition begun in the 1930s by Pedro Linares. It discusses the various materials used to create these fantastical animals as well as the importance of the Oaxaca region in Mexican Art. Also included is a paragraph on the annual parade of Alebrijes in Mexico City as well as a similar type of art created by the local indigenous Zapotec people made from the copal tree.~A worksheet with 10 reading compr

Subjects:

Informational Text, Social Studies - History, Visual Arts

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Guided Reading Books, Cultural Activities

Also included in: Hispanic Culture 20 Readings: Holidays, Bios & Travel @50% off! (In English)

Cinco de Mayo: Reading, Activities, & Substitute Plan for Spanish Class

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EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading, Spanish

This is a reading activity for Spanish class about Cinco de Mayo. It is also a good emergency substitute activity to keep handy in your sub folder. It can be used any time in Apri or Mayl. It includes three articles related to Cinco de Mayo and its traditions. Comprehension questions follow each article. Also included is a crossword puzzle featuring some of the terms from the articles. The articles are in English, so this can easily be used at any level and you can confidently leave it with a s

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Grades:

7th - 12th

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