Need a FUN way for Spanish students to write about New Years? Use this Spanish writing group activity to help your students achieve the next level of ACTFL proficiency. Students will use the present tense and the preterite and imperfect tense to invent a mascot for New Year's! This activity is perfect for both distance learning and in-person learning!

This resource provides an interesting writing topic: inventing a mascot to represent the New Year's Holiday, and a way for students to collaborate in order to produce a high quality writing piece.  These instructions ask students to use the present, imperfect and preterite tenses, but you can customize this for your class. Use my ideas for how to make sure each group member is an active and accountable participant!  Provide specific and timely feedback to students without spending hours grading!

Which students can use this:

• Spanish students in middle school and up
• Students at the Novice High level and up can use this

How could this product be used?

There are many ways to use this fully customizable writing prompt.  This product includes full teacher instructions about how to use this as a group writing activity and how to hold all group members accountable. This writing challenge could be used as a formative assessment for a grade or it could be used as a practice before a formal writing assessment. The teacher instructions include specific ways to provide feedback to students on their writing without needing to grade every student's paper.

What this product includes:

• 2 pages of teacher instructions and ideas about how to use this activity
• a customizable writing prompt (with an interesting topic and a context to make the task more realistic
• Student instructions and task requirements in English (customizable)
• Student instructions and task requirements in Spanish (customizable)
• 1 graphic organizer for students to jot down ideas before writing (customizable)
• 1 page of lined paper for students to write (customizable)

This product can be printed for students or can be given as a digital hand out.

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