
Here are some great post reading activities that I have gathered from attending conferences and surfing the web. Most of these are no- to low-prep. I have acknowledged the creators the best I can. If I have something listed with no name, I would love help tracking down the person who came up with it! Click on the BLUE WHO to be taken to the website for more detailed instructions.
- Annotation Walk
Where: Unit 8, 29
Who: Meghan Loveless
There is a setup involved with this one. - Blackout Poetry
Where: Unit 22
Who: Conference
What: you will need a pre-printed page of text - Bluff Game (the)
Where: Unit 27
Who: Conference - Crossword Puzzle
Where: Unit 28
Who: Cyber Profe - Delayed Dictation
Where: Unit 42
Who: Donna Tatum-Johns
- Have students use whiteboards or paper.
- Read a sentence to them 2-3 times (I like using the class stories)
- They wait 10 seconds before writing it down. (Keep track for them. I hold up 10 fingers and count down)
- As everyone writes, walk around the room and help where needed (if you want to)
- When everyone is done writing – show them the sentence. They can make corrections or you can move on to the next sentence
- Heads up: Donna suggests using this with language they already know. Not using new words. Since this is for Spanish 3, and the story is fairly simple, I feel ok using it here!
- Extra! Extra! (turn into a newspaper article)
Where:
Origin: Cyber Profe
What: Have the students take the short story (or a chapter) and turn it into a newspaper article. - Four Truths and a Lie
Where: Unit 20
Who: This has been around for a millennia.
What: Have the students create several truths and 1-2 lies based on the reading. Once complete, they can walk around the room and try to stump their classmates. - Marker Grab
Where: several
Who: Mis Clases Locas - Lucky Reading Game
Where: Unit 34a: El Ekeko
Who: Señora Chase - Numbered Heads
Where: Unit 24a Felipe Alou, Spanish 3
Who: Google Search - Ping Pong Reading
Where: Several units
Who: Conference - Question2Question
Where: Unit 23
Who: Conference - Reverse Charades
Where: Unit 6
Who: La Maestra Loca - Seis Game
Where: Unit2 4, 9, 7
Who: TPT under Dice Game
What: Group or pair the students and give each pair one die. Give them a passage to translate into English. One person translates while the other is trying to roll a 6. When they have rolled the 6, they will grab the pencil from their 'opponent' and start translating while the other person now tries to get a 6. (If you group them, then each student will need a die.)
- Smash Doodle
Where: Unit 8
Who: Señora Dentlinger - Special Card
Who: Twitter - World Language Classroom
You will need a deck of cards - Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down (Martina Bex)
Where: All
Who: Martina Bex
What: After reading a story or passage, have the students put their heads down on the desk. Ask the students yes/no or true/false questions. If the answer is yes/true they put their thumbs up. If the answer is no/false they put their thumbs down. - Turn and Talk
Where: Unit 9
Who: FB Group
What: Just like it says, after a few minutes of input have the students turn to each other and retell what they heard in their L2. - Whiteboard.fi
Where: Unit 20
Who: FB Group
What: Have the students draw on a sheet of paper (4-6 frames) or use the website whiteboard.fi to draw the story as you read it to them. - Write Draw Pass
Where: Unit 9
Who: Señora Jota Jota
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