Need a new Hispanic Heritage Month Game for your High School Spanish classes? I have a great idea for you! September is a great time to build classroom community with a game! Students will be learning about influential people from Hispanic backgrounds, but won’t even realize it!
A Hispanic Heritage Month Game!
Want your Spanish students to learn about Hispanic Heritage Month , but reading comprehension is getting boring in your Spanish class? Turn it into a game! This mystery-solving reading about famous Hispanics goes from dull to exciting as students work together and move around the room to solve a mystery! This is a simple “print and go” with no work for the teacher!
Students play the role of journalists, all trying to “scoop” each other by getting a story first! There is to be a big Lifetime Achievement Award given to someone of Hispanic heritage, and the journalists want to find out who is winning the award first! They will read about the 10 candidates. While they read the parts, they are also looking for “code words”. Students record the code words on a special answer sheet that will eventually lead them to solving the mystery of who the award winner is, and whoever figures it out first gets the scoop! It’s so much fun!
How Do I Extend Learning?
Hispanic Heritage Month is a whole month, so how can you take this 1-day Hispanic Heritage Game and continue student learning during the month?
After students play the mystery game, you can use any of the follow-up activities with your students. There are 4; a True or False Activity to check for basic comprehension, a graphic organizer for students to organize notes about famous hispanos, a “tell me in your own words” activity, and a writing follow up where students use their reading comprehension and critical thinking to invent an explanation for why the voting board chose this person as the winner. Answer key to the True/False is also included. Best of all? If there’s something you’d like to change for your students, you are free to edit!
What Else Should I Know About the Hispanic Heritage Month Game?
The reading cards are written in Spanish for Novice High/Intermediate Low. The questions are written in English, and answers will be in English as well. The instructions and mission are written in English.
The entire game will be a downloadable Google Slides, which means you can make your own copy and change, add or edit any parts that you like!
My students love these reading mystery games because of the following reasons:
- They may work with a partner, a group or alone. (Sometimes I decide, sometimes I let them decide!)
- They are out of their seats for most of class. They need to travel around the room, and students really like to be up and moving.
- There is a satisfaction in figuring stuff out! There is a game element and a mystery to solve, and these keep students engaged in this Hispanic Heritage Month Game!
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