The purpose of these activities is to help students engage with the target language vocabulary through variety and choice. The activities have a rangeof difficulty and appeal to multiple learning styles and intelligences. While engaging with vocabulary, students are also learning important skills from simple memorization and spelling to circumlocution.

This modifiable packet can be used for bell ringer activities, daily work, homework, an emergency sub plan, etc.

I have included over 20 activities with worksheets, printable manipulatives, instructions, and visuals/examples.

FlashCards
Make flash cards of your vocab words and use them to practice. / WordPyramids
Use 15 words in a word pyramid.
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school / Make a vertical vocab mini-poster with the theme and words from the unit. Include pictures. / Do a verbalvisualwordassociation sheet. / Make a simple “concrete” poem Create a scene with five of the vocab words.
Make a “rompecabeza” puzzle. Play it. Time yourself and try to beat your score. / Use bananagram tiles to create a scrabble like grid of vocabulary. Take a picture of it with your phone. / Use your phone video camera to record yourself doing signlanguage for 5 words. Say the word in Spanish, what it means, then finger spell or do the sign.
/ Pick words you know the least and write them and their definitions. Then write them with your “other” hand. If you are right handed use the left or vice versa. / Make a “cootiecatcher” and use it to practice
Classify words according to their parts of speech / Categorize the vocabulary.
cognates, words with multiple definitions, related words (bat+batter+ to bat). / Fill in alphaboxes with the Spanish words and add the English definition / Pick ten words you know the least and make up “memorytriggers” (ie: action, mental picture, a phrase, etc. ). Make a list of the words and the triggers. / Use 15 words.
Write each word and its translation. Calculate the value and determine which is worth more the English or the Spanish.
vowel= 2 points
consonant= 1 point
Write and draw a comicstripwith dialog about the theme. / SENTENCES
Use 10 words. Write each word in a sentence and underline the word / Write a 1-2 paragraph JOURNAL entry in Spanish about the unit theme. / Questions
Write 10 questions that use a vocabulary word in the question or as the answer. You can only use the questions
“What is ____?” “Do you like ___? one time each / Expansion- Think of ten more useful words/phrases to fit this theme that are NOT included in the vocab list. Look up how to say them.
Choose ten words. Write a Spanish CLUE/
Definition/ description for the Spanish word.
Ex: Abuela – la madre de mi madre / Complete the workbookvocabulary pages
Part 1Part 2 / Teacher approved studentchoice
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FlashCards

Make flash cards of your vocab words and use them to practice. You may use an app on your phone like Flash Cards+ or make traditional paper cards.



Make a “rompecabeza” puzzle. Play it. Time yourself and try to beat your score.


Use bananagramtiles to create a scrabble like grid of vocabulary. Take a picture of it with your phone.

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The “other” hand

Pick words you know the least and write them and their definitions. Then write them with your “other” hand. If you are right handed use the left or vice versa.

  1. Right hand-Word______Definition:______Left hand- Word______Definition:______
  2. Right hand-Word______Definition:______Left hand- Word______Definition:______
  3. Right hand-Word______Definition:______Left hand- Word______Definition:______
  4. Right hand-Word______Definition:______Left hand- Word______Definition:______
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  12. Right hand-Word______Definition:______Left hand- Word______Definition:______

Cootie catcher – After folding the cootie catcher, write four vocabulary words on the outside flaps. Write eight vocab words on the inside flaps. Under the inside flaps, write eight silly sentences using more vocabulary.

How to play: Pick a word from the outside flaps. Say what it means. Spell the Spanish word while you open and close the cootie catcher. Pick a word from the inside flaps. Say what it means. Spell the Spanish word while you open and close the cootie catcher.Pick a word from the inside flaps. Lift the flap and read the silly sentence. Repeat all the playing steps

Classify vocabulary (Tip: You can add color for added study power.For example, use blue for masculine objects and pink for feminine or red for irregular verbs and green for regular.)

Masculinenouns

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Regular verbs

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Adjectives

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Others

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Categorizing vocabulary

Cognates

  1. Sp. ______Eng. ______
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Words with multiple definitions

  1. Sp. Or Eng. word______Definitions ______
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Linguistically related words

(ex: el bate-bat, batear- to bat, el bateador-batter)

  1. Group 1
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  5. Group 2
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Fill in alphaboxes with the Spanish vocabulary words and add the English definition

A / B / C / D
E / F / G / H
I / J / K / L
M / N/ñ / O / P
Q / R / S / T
U / V / W X / Y Z

MemoryTriggers

Pick ten words you know the least and make up “memory triggers” (ie: action, mental picture, a phrase, song/chant, etc). Make a list of the words and the triggers. Ex: Oso=bear – the bear was “OSO” (Oh, so) big.

  1. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  2. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  3. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  4. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  5. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  6. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  7. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  8. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  9. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______
  10. Word: ______Check one: action mental image phrase song other Describe the trigger: ______

Whichis worth more? - Use 15 vocab words. Write each word and its translation. Calculate the value and determine which is worth more the English or the Spanish. Circle the winner.

vowel= 2 points

consonant= 1 point

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Write and draw a comic strip with dialog about the theme.

SENTENCES

Pick 10 vocabulary words. Write each word in a sentence and circle the word. Use your own words in Spanish.

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Write a 1-2 paragraph JOURNAL entry in Spanish about the unit theme.


QUESTIONS

Write 10 questions in Spanish that use a vocabulary word either in the question or as the answer. You can only use the questions“What is ____?” “Do you like ___? one time each.

  1. Pregunta/question______respuesta/ answer ______
  2. Pregunta/question______respuesta/ answer ______
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Expansion-Think of ten more useful words/phrases to fit this theme that are NOT included in the vocab list. Look up how to say them. Record your findings here.

  1. New word/ phrase: ______Spanish: ______
  2. New word/ phrase: ______Spanish: ______
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CLUE : Choose ten words. Write a Spanish CLUE/definition/ description for the Spanish word.

Ex: Abuela – la madre de mi madre

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