This printable activity consists of a short Spanish reading, photos and questions. The topic is el Día del Peatón, an excellent subject for Earth Day or any day. El Día de la Tierra, Earth Day, is April 22nd this year. The city of Cochabamba, Bolivia has observed el Día del Peatón, or Pedestrian Day, for 13 years. Three times a year the city is closed to all motor vehicles and people take to the streets [...]
Christmas is just a week away! This post is a combination of various printable Christmas materials that teachers and parents may find useful. The first set of activities is by Eva María Martinez Villanueva and was created especially for Spanish language learners. It includes a short reading, a vocabulary exercise and a domino game. The reading is an email from a girl in Spain writing to a friend in Russia explaining Spanish Christmas traditions. The [...]
If you are looking for Spanish Christmas activities for your students or children, check out these resources. They were created by teachers and can be used with Spanish language learners of different levels. There are a variety of printable games and activities, along with videos to practice Spanish Christmas vocabulary. 1. Blog de los Maestros de Audición y Lenguaje is the work of Eugenia Romero of Palma de Mallorca, Spain. She has several Christmas activities [...]
The government of the Canary Islands has an extensive collection of educational resources online, including this page of reading comprehension exercises in Spanish. The page is the work of Mario Ramos Rodriguez, of Los Silos, Tenerife. There are readings at all levels and many are appropriate for Spanish language learners. All of them have reading comprehension exercises, and you can download and print them. The page has several different collections of texts to practice reading [...]
Tesoros de lectura is a Spanish reading program from MacMillan/McGraw-Hill. It is the counterpart to the English program, Treasures. As a part of the program, the publisher makes available a variety of support materials for teachers and families. Specifically, there is a weekly letter with activities to send home. Although the activities are intended for classes using the Tesoros de lectura program, they provide excellent examples and are a wonderful resource for teachers and parents [...]
The website Aplicaciones Didácticas has a collection of short Spanish readings for children. The readings have comprehension questions that can be answered online, or you can print the reading and questions. The 40 Spanish readings are not arranged in order of length or difficulty. Some of them are very simple and appropriate for many language learners, so it is worth reading several to find the ones that work for you. There are a variety of [...]