Description

Get students moving while learning about El Grito de Dolores and Mexican Independence Day with this engaging Spanish Running Dictation activity! Students practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening in Spanish while learning important cultural information about El Grito de Dolores, September 16, and Mexican Independence Day.

This low-prep cultural activity combines comprehensible Spanish with movement and collaboration, making it a great way to incorporate culture while providing meaningful language input. Students work with short, accessible sentences about the celebration and communicate the information to their partners.

Simply print, cut, and go!

What’s Included

✅ 15 comprehensible Spanish sentences about El Grito de Dolores and Mexican Independence Day

✅ Running Dictation sentence cards

✅ 5 differentiated student response forms so you can choose the level of support that works best for your students

✅ Student forms featuring visual supports

✅ Practice with all 4 modes of communication within the activity:

Why Teachers Will Love It

• ⭐ Introduces students to El Grito de Dolores in comprehensible Spanish
• ⭐ Combines culture and language acquisition in one activity
• ⭐ Gets students out of their seats and communicating
• ⭐ Provides meaningful reading and listening input for novice learners
• ⭐ Multiple student forms make it easy to differentiate for different proficiency levels
• ⭐ Low-prep format makes it easy to add to your Mexican Independence Day lesson plans

Great For

• ✔ Mexican Independence Day
• ✔ El Grito de Dolores
• ✔ Hispanic Heritage Month
• ✔ cultural lessons
• ✔ Spanish 1
• ✔ novice Spanish learners
• ✔ comprehensible input
• ✔ stations
• ✔ partner activities
• ✔ movement activities
• ✔ sub plans

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