I found these at Walmart in March and this week I finally put them to use!
I know there are probably a million ways to use these creatively and that a lot of language teachers use them often. But, for some reason, I didn’t get them out until this week.
We are reading La Vampirata by Mira Canion in level 2 right now. We are having so much fun! We act the chapters after we read them, use paper dolls as manipulatives, draw, and more. The Teacher’s Guide is jam packed with conversation starters, background information, comprehension questions and more.
I projected comic-style drawings of chapter 3 and read statements about them in Spanish. Students had little difficulty matching my statements to the drawings. So, I decided to take the activity in a different direction and turned it into a game. Students had to roll the dice and whichever number it landed on, they had to spend one minute describing the corresponding drawing. They could describe what it looked like or they could describe what was going on in the chapter during that picture. This was a gold mine of easy output!
