
3 Reading Activities for Spanish Class
Reading is the bread and butter of language class. Students need lots of interaction with text to be able to soak that language in! Sometimes,
Boost language acquisition with engaging Spanish reading activities! Help your Spanish 1 and 2 students build fluency with reading activities designed to support language acquisition through comprehensible input. These resources offer simple yet effective ways to expose students to the language in context, making it easier for them to understand and retain new vocabulary. By incorporating authentic texts and engaging stories, you can foster a deeper connection to the language while keeping learning enjoyable.

Reading is the bread and butter of language class. Students need lots of interaction with text to be able to soak that language in! Sometimes,

Reading and movement are my two main loves when it comes to lesson planning. I’m always looking for more ways to get students to read

Do you teach a unit on family in your Spanish classroom? One of my favorite activities during a unit is a gallery walk! It’s great

I love to create cultural reading activities for my students because it’s a great option for students to learn about culture in a simple, comprehensible way!

One of my favorite units at the start of the year is students introducing themselves to others, and talking about themselves! It’s great to get

As beginning students learn to read, incorporating short stories is a great way to help students put all of their skills together. Reading these Spanish

I’m always, always looking for more ways for students to read and re-read stories and texts in my classroom. The other day I came up

This morning I woke up thinking about my lesson plan and decided to toss it out the window. It was supposed to be a storyboard

Ever since I first tried running dictation it’s been one of my favorite activities to use and reuse in my classroom! After ACTFL this fall

Reading, reading, reading. I’m always looking for more ways to get students to read or re-read in my classroom! This Reading with Emotion activity is

Matamoscas is a fun game that’s been around for a long time! I have no idea where it came from, or who first started it,

Gallery walks are one of my favorite activities to use in my classroom. There are so many ways to use gallery walks in class! I

Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from September 15 to October 15, is the perfect time to make culture jump off the page and come alive in

Are you in search of a new way to use a reading in class? Sometimes it feels like our activities are getting stale and you

Finding new ways for reading activity in my classroom — like Speed Date Translate — has been the biggest part of my lesson plans this

Inside: 2 ways to read out loud in Spanish with your students in middle and high school Spanish classes! In the journey of switching over

Inside: Learn about how to do a dictation in Spanish class – the classic version of Running Dictation for when you need something a little

Inside: Learn how to take a favorite review game and use it as several fun Spanish games! Mi Lápiz is one of my absolute favorite

I love having a stash of reading activities handy that you can pull out with ANY text, reading, or resource. This activity is actually one

Sometimes we need something simple, low-prep, and easy to use! This activity is something you can do with any reading, and you don’t even have

Happy Tuesday everyone! Tuesdays in my Spanish I classroom this year are Free Voluntary Reading (FVR) days. This is a routine I have incorporated this

I’ve heard about running dictation from a few different places, but Keith Toda’s post here is where I ran into it first! Basically, running dictation

Sometimes we need something simple, low-prep, and easy to use! This activity is something you can do with any reading, and you don’t even have

Using authentic resources can be great, but sometimes it’s overwhelming for our students. I wanted to share a way I made using the news in Spanish