Looking for a fun way to practice writing in the preterite and imperfect? Encourage detail and accuracy and give specific feedback FAST! These vacation themed prompts practice Spanish preterite vs imperfect writing prompt has a vacation theme that is perfect to help your students achieve the next level of ACTFL proficiency. Students can work collaboratively in groups to create a high quality writing piece for a real-world purpose.

This activity provides an interesting writing topic about a past vacation and a way for students to collaborate in order to produce a sophisticated piece of writing. Motivate students by giving them the choice to write about the vacation of their dreams or the vacation of their nightmares! This prompt is designed for the preterite and imperfect tenses, but can be customized to your needs. 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
• 2 customizable writing prompts (each 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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