GOT GAME 2?
A series of games and activity ideas to enhance the use of readers in the Spanish classroom
Jody Reif Ziemann, PhD Pam Lange-Murillo
Berlin High School P. J. Jacobs Junior HIgh School
Berlin, Wisconsin Stevens Point, Wisconsin
lajirafa@hotmail.com pmurillo@pointschools.net
Icebreaker game:
Variation of: I like people who….
This game gets students up and moving. It is a way for people to express themselves and see who else shares the same thoughts and opinions. Everyone stands/sits in a circle. One person is in the middle. The person in the middle makes a comment. Everyone in the circle who agrees with the comment has to switch places with someone else. The person in the middle also tries to find an empty spot in the circle. The person left without a spot is in the middle and the game continues.
Link for Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro
I used this idea to get students talking about pets. Possible structures include:
Yo tengo un/una ________.
Yo tengo un/una ________, pero quiero un/una ________.
Me gustan los/las ________, pero no me gustan los/las ________.
Vocabulary Blitz
An adaptation of a dice game to practice vocabulary and/or language structures
Story Boards (Created with StoryboardThat)
Magic Squares
A sentence completion activity with a math twist to it. After completing each of the sentences in the activity according to events in the story, each set of rows, columns and diagonal squares should add up to the same number.
Pictotraductor
Thanks to Cynthia Hitz for this idea!
Pictotraductor allows you to create sentences by means of pictures. The following slide shows an example of a sentence from Chapter 1, Brandon Brown Dice la Verdad.
LINK : Pictotraductor
Palabra Secreta
This activity requires the students to separate sentence strips into true and false statements (regarding characters or events of the story). The reverse side of each sentence strip has a letter or a word on it. Using the reverse side of the TRUE sentence strips, students form a logical sentence with the words on the back of each sentence strip (or a logical word with the letters on the back of the sentence strips).
Link for Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro Cap. 6-10
Running Dictation
A running dictation practices speaking, listening, remembering, writing, and ordering skills. Students are divided into groups of three. One student is the “Corredor,” one is the “Escritor,” and the third is the “Profe.” The “Corredor” runs to read a passage from the story from among a series posted on the wall, in the hall, etc. S/he looks at one passage, runs back and quietly reports it to the “Escritor” who writes it down. If the Corredor cannot remember the entire sentence s/he must run back and forth until confident the Escritor has the whole passage. Then the Corredor moves to another sentence. While gone, the Profe looks over the sentence and makes any corrections s/he feels are needed. When all sentences have been written and corrected. The Profe cuts them apart and together they organize them in chronological order.
Running Dictation for Frida Kahlo
Adivina qué es contains lists of descriptions of people and places from Frida Kahlo, the biographical novel by Kristy Placido. This information could be used in a variety of ways, as a large group, small group or individual activity. It could be used as a warm-up activity or as a review game before an assessment:
Kahoots
SmashDoodle
Idea credited to Elizabeth Detlinger
A SmashDoodle is a version of a scrapbook, which includes drawings and written text. The name is derived from the idea that students are not actually creating scrapbooks but rather “doodling.” This activity is great for encouraging creativity while focusing on the most important points in a reading/chapter/book. Numerous examples to be found on Pinterest.
Summative activity for a SmashDoodle assignment for La Guerra Sucia:
Students were to choose one chapter from the novel for their SmashDoodle.
Each SmashDoodle was to contain the following:
Desapariciones por Maná
TED en español -
La lucha de una abuela por rescatar a los desaparecidos
Novel Chapter Bingo Game
This bingo game is created around the characters, main events, cultural information, historical events, and vocabulary from the novel La Guerra Sucia. The links will bring you to 30 bingo cards and the caller’s cards with the clues and answers. Run off on cardstock & laminate.
Padlet
A Padlet survey can be a great way to get students thinking about a topic before reading about it in a story.
Link for La Llorona de Mazatlán Capítulo 2
This activity is great for practicing the imperfect tense. Print out a couple copies of the linked cards on card stock. Cut up and pass out one card to each student. The students split into groups of two. Each student writes a description of their person or place on the back of their card (using the imperfect). They trade cards with their partner, look for a new partner and repeat the process. See if students can come up with four unique descriptions of each person/place. See next page for sample descriptions.
Sample descriptions for La Llorona de Mazatlán
Jake Jake era alto y rubio. A Jake le gustaba mucho jugar al fútbol. Jake era de Atlanta. Jake no era muy guapo. Jake tenía una gran sonrisa. Jake era el amigo de Laney y Desi. Jake no era de Norman, Oklahoma. |
Variations: Describe in the present tense; use the preterite to talk about an event in the past involving the person, place or thing
Venn Diagram
This activity is created to be used after reading chapters 1 & 2 of Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro and Berto y sus buenos amigos. Students are to cut out the descriptions of the three main characters who were introduced in the first two chapters and glue/paste them into each of the circles or overlapping circles of the Venn diagram.
LINK - BBQP
LINK - Berto y sus buenos amigos
Cortometrajes to be used with
Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro
Llévame contigo
El Regalo
Ratón en venta
Authentic Resources
Interpretive reading activities that expose students to authentic texts. I chose the infographics below to complement Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro. I also used the webpage “Adopta Bogotá,” a Colombian adoption agency for pets, to look at descriptions of animals in a real context. This activity precedes a presentational writing activity where students create their own animal descriptions
Beneficios de Tener un Perro: infografía
Beneficios de los Animales de Compañía: infografía and interpretive reading activity
Rincones
dice
necesito
por favor
van
2 3
1 4
Resources
Below are some resources appropriate for teaching
Tumba by Mira Canion.
Mi pueblo (Mante es . . .) por los Sugars Boys: canción
Ofrenda del Día de los Muertos: infografía
Chumba la Cachumba: canción infantil
Cómo hacer tamales verdes: video corto
“Strip” Bingo (idea credited to Martina Bex)
Choose several words from a text or chapter.
Students fill out one word per block on a strip.
Read the text or chapter slowly, pausing when you say one of the words from the list.
If a student hears a word written on either end of his/her sheet, s/he tears off the word.
The first student to have all words called is the winner.
GOT GAME 2?
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Jody Reif Ziemann, PhD Pam Lange-Murillo
Berlin High School P. J. Jacobs Junior HIgh School
Berlin, Wisconsin Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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