If you’re working on a “Mis vacaciones” Unit en español? These digital and printable Spanish preterite reading comprehension activities are a great way to get a ton of comprehensible input into your students in a low prep way! Let’s take a look at these Spanish preterite reading comprehension passages, lesson plans for using them, and more!

Mis Vacaciones Spanish Preterite Reading Comprehension Passages
These Spanish preterite reading comprehension passages include 16 short readings about how the students spent their trips written in comprehensible language. The readings include vocabulary supports at the bottom of the page to help your students be successful.

The readings include:
- Name
- What they did
- Mode of transportation
- Who they went with
- Where they went
- Vocabulary support
Some readings also include frequency and likes or dislikes. The printable comprehension worksheets include a scavenger hunt activity as well as a writing activity for students to share about a trip they have been on. Lots of great ways to practice!
The short readings are perfect for your Spanish students because it’s not so overwhelming for them. If you put all of the language in one spot it would be a huge packet of info, but the short variety of readings feels very manageable to your middle school and high school Spanish learners.

The short text for your learners comes in printable Spanish reading comprehension worksheets in a pdf format as well as a digital version for Google Slides and Boom Cards.
Spanish Preterite Reading Comprehension Activities
I love doing a scavenger hunt activity with the reading comprehension questions. This way you can get your students up and moving around while they’re doing what is essentially a Spanish worksheet. They are getting lots of input with the Spanish reading passages so you want to do some checks for understanding any new vocabulary and the main idea of the reading passages. There is some vocabulary help on the bottom of each of the short readings, too!

The reading comprehension questions include a question for each of the short passages so they will need to read the selection closely, and go back to the readings various times until they find the correct answer for the different people in the scavenger hunt activity. There is an answer key included for the Spanish and English scavenger hunt activity options!
When they finish the scavenger hunt activity, there is an independent work option that works well as a fast finisher where students work on their writing skills.
Digital Spanish Preterite Reading Comprehension
There is a digital version of the Spanish reading comprehension passages that includes the reading comprehension exercises, but also some extra practice!

In the extra practice version, students read true and false statements about each of the different people included in the short passages and have to label the true and false statements correctly. You can also have them highlight or underline the text to show where they found it in the short readings as a way to show evidence, a great reading skill.
More Spanish Reading Comprehension Passages
Here’s a quick reference list of the reading comprehension passages and themes:
- Family vocabulary
- School vocabulary
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Imperfect tense
- Sports vocabulary
- Hobbies & pasttimes vocabulary
- Daily routine
- Personal descriptions
- City vocabulary
- Animals
- Weekend (Past tense)
- Pets
- When I was younger..
- Vacation & travel vocabulary
- Ir a infinitive
- Famous athletes
- Hispanic Heritage Month (past tense)
- Thanksgiving
- Women’s History Month
- Christmas
- Halloween
- Black History Month – FREE download!
- Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- Famous Scientists
Each set includes printable reading comprehension passages, worksheets, and extension comprehension activities. There are also digital versions for use with Google Slides and Boom Cards included in each set!
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