Cuando Era Niño | Imperfect Tense in Spanish Reading & Activities
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These short readings are a great way for your students to get lots of input!This resource includes 18 short readings about people and their childhoods written in comprehensible language. The readings include vocabulary supports that suit the level of your students.
108 pages – PDF,Google Apps,Internet Activities
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Description
These short readings are a great way for your students to get lots of input!
This resource includes 18 short readings about people and their childhoods written in comprehensible language. The readings include vocabulary supports at the bottom of the page to help your students be successful. The readings are a basic summary of each person’s favorite activities and pastimes as a child!
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This resource includes a scavenger hunt activity in Spanish and English for students to complete. Hang the readings around the room and let them walk and read, practicing their comprehension skills!
It also includes a writing activity for students to record information about each person they read about, as well as a chart to record information about each character. Lots of great ways to practice!
The readings include:
- Name
- the age they’re sharing about (when I was ____ I would..)
- what they used to do as a kid
- a favorite (food, toys, activities)
- one thing they used to do with another person/group (family member, friend, class in school,etc)
++Vocabulary support in the form of footnotes
Some readings include:
- what they looked like (physical characteristics)
- how frequently they did that/those activities
- Likes/dislikes
The readings are written in PAST TENSE WITH SOME PRESENT TENSE.
Both imperfect and the preterite are used in these readings.
INCLUDED PAGES:
- 18 short readings
- Scavenger hunt in Spanish
- Scavenger hunt in English
- Answer key for scavenger hunt in Spanish
- Answer key for scavenger hunt in English
- Table for students to fill out information from the readings in Spanish
- Table for students to fill out information from the readings in English
- Short writing activity for students to write about their own childhoods
- Cover and “final page” to turn the readings into a book for your classroom library
- Digital version of the readings, scavenger hunts, and writing activities for Google Slides (61 Slides)
- Additional reading comprehension activity for each of the readings using Google Slides OR Boom Cards – each of the 18 readings has 3 comprehension questions – also available separately
- Teacher’s notes for use
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61 reviews for Cuando Era Niño | Imperfect Tense in Spanish Reading & Activities
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Taylor Phillips –
I have this as an optional activity for kids who need extra help and/or finish early. The readings are great and easy to understand
Dawn M. –
This was a very thorough and well put-together resource. Thank you.
Josefina M. –
My students understood better with this resource, however, some couldn’t follow the instructions. It’s a work in progress in my classroom . I still recommend using it as a resource.
Bilingual Crew –
Very engaging activity for my students!! It was great to practice many different skills.
Hilary S. –
I love the real life application in this resource. It really pulls together my imperfect unit. Thank you!
Amanda M. –
This was engaging and supported my students comprehension of past tense descriptions.
Feliz Language Learning –
This was a fantastic resource to help my students understand the difference and when to use the preterite and imperfect.
Dulce H. –
I used this resource as part of the imperfect lesson. I loved how it was interactive and put the imperfect in context.
Madai Holdsworth –
This is great! As every other person has said, its an excellent resource. I used it with my Honors 2 classes, mostly native speakers, and the activity took about 20 minutes. No one was confused or had questions, so it could potentially be good for a planned sub day.
Xiomara Granado –
This was amazing!!! My students were engage the whole time
margaret S. –
Great resource. My students were engaged. Thank you.
Elizabeth G. –
Students were very engaged using this resource. Thank you!
Soraya Delachica –
Very practical, relevant, meaningful and engaging reading activity that can be used to assess students’ reading and written communication skills. Also, it saves prep time. Great for engagement, critical thinking & analysis, grammar and vocabulary review.
Isabella V. –
I used these for entry tasks and quick reading comprehension activities and they were perfect. They aren’t too hard to understand and my Spanish 2 students did great with them. Great resource!
Yamira Gonzalez –
This lesson was so informative and engaging! The students enjoy it in class! Thank you!
SeñoritaJoy –
I used this as a gallery walk in my S2 class. I loved that there were so many different readings that perfectly complemented my unit on childhood and imperfect/preterite verbs.
Carlos E. –
This was great for students to see how the imperfect can be used to describe their childhood and how they used to be. They really liked it.
Sarah K. –
My students were engaged and could understand this activity. We used it to springboard to write about themselves.
Melissa B. –
I use these as a sub plan. Students are up and moving, but still working on Spanish.
Kelsey P. –
This was a great way for students to get up and move around while reviewing the imperfect.
Jennifer J. –
My students enjoyed reading the different descriptive paragraphs about other peoples childhoods. This was a great review of the imperfect tense and helped me transition into having them complete a project about their childhoods.
Molly M. –
This resource was very helpful in providing simple, embedded context for the imperfect tense. It will also be useful when we begin to compare and contrast the imperfect with the preterite. Highly recommend.
Darcie M. –
My students used these paragraphs and scavenger hunt activity. It was a great way for them to get more input with the imperfect tense and to get them up and out of their seats.
Alondra G. –
This recource is very complete. It has reading practice, oprtions for English/Spanish. I loved that it comes with a Boomcards set, which i am obsessed with because my students enoyed getting the immediate feedback and also get very competitive. I am planning on laminating it and using it year after year to practice imperfect tense.
Maria Elena G. –
My students enjoyed these readings. It’s a great resource!
Miscellaneous Mom –
Great way to practice the imperfect tense! It was challenging and engaging for my students! Thank you!
Haydee M. –
Awesome addition to my unit about the imperfect! It worked well with my in class and virtual students.
Andrea C. –
My student and I always enjoy these activities. It allows them to work together as they practice the material.
Kristen P. –
Great resource. My students did very well with these
Jael G. –
We are doing a project called “Cuando era niño” and these readings were a great way for me to introduce the project and give them ideas of what they could present on. I print it the stories and posted them around the class , which makes this activity very interactive and engaging for students.
Katherine M. –
These readings are great ways to show comprehension of vocabulary and the imperfect tense!
Lindsey M. –
One of my favorite activities that I’ve used in a while. Students really enjoyed it and I was observed while completing it with the students and they also LOVED it.
Holly D. –
Fantastic addition to our childhood unit. My students were very engaged with the readings and activities.
Senora Beck –
My students were engaged in the resource. Thank you!
Laura Penhollow –
Great way to reinforce imperfect in context. Students liked this
Melissa A. –
Aligns perfectly with Realidades 2 or Autentico 2.
Señora la exploradora –
This was a fantastic way to start off the unit related to childhood activities. The readings are easy to understand and visually appealing.
Kim S. –
These readings are so well-done and offer lots of comprehensible input. I can see so many ways that these can be utilized in the class or at home. Thank you!
Jamie F. –
This was fantastic as we worked on the preterite tense!
Catherine W. –
These readings are great! Easy to understand and great for reinforcing concepts in a fun way. Gracias.
Miranda S. –
I enjoyed using this activity with my students and they enjoyed it as well.
Karry P. –
We just used this the other day. I had the biographies posted around the room and students had to go from image to image looking for the correct answer. It got students up out of their seats and looking for information in the target language. Win win!
MessyMaestra –
These are great. I have used several of these reading activities and they make for awesome versatile lessons. They can get out of their seats for the gallery walk, and anyone who was absent can make it up digitally. It requires very little prep.
Hannah D. –
My students always love reading activities, and this helped make a tricky concept easier. So easy to use, and exactly what I was looking for. I love your stories!
Laura M. –
Thank you!!!
Emily W. –
I used this as a sub activity when I had to be out unexpectedly during our childhood/imperfect unit and it was perfect! It took my students most of a 60 minute class period to solve the clues and do the writing/drawing about themselves.
Yvette V. –
Really enjoyed this activity.
Elizabeth Becker –
Great reading comprehension practice that also focused on forms! Thank you so much for a great resource!
Engaging Spanish for Real Classrooms –
I used a few of these readings as practice, then used the rest for an assessment. It was perfect!
Pasitos con Moni –
These are great for building that interpretive reading confidence for my students!
Srta Kimberly –
I am a BIG fan of your Boom Card activities, as are my students!!! They are perfect practice and engaging!
Profe Peterson –
The biographies saved me a lot of time. I actually used a few on our final exam as reading comprehension for the imperfect tense. Great resource!
Sharon S. –
Love these activities
Erin Sanislo –
I loved that 18 readings were included with the writing activity as well to get lots of mileage out of this activity! It is so amazing that you include digital versions for many products – this is a lifesaver!
Miren H. –
Excellent reading resource to teach the use of the imperfect.
Angela McCorkle Montiel –
Great activity! Thanks!
Terri N. –
This resource has so much to offer! Boom cards, Google Slides, printable description cards to use as a gallery walk, plus other activities.
Cositas de Cristina –
Great activity! Thank you!
Sarah Gaffney –
My students are always highly engaged with these activities! I love how much comprehensible input the are getting and how there are so many ways to differentiate!
Espanol Loco –
Great resource.
Jennifer H. –
Used with fast finishers for enrichment. Good resource