Recently, Martina Bex created customizable ¡Cataplún! cards. Knowing that everything she creates is a huge hit with my students, I went directly to her TPT store and purchased my own set!
I am so glad I did!
My favorite post-reading activities cause students to go back and reread the text. The benefit to reading is READING, after all. I spent a few minutes after school yesterday customizing and printing enough sets that students could play in groups of three or four. Each set was a different color (to make the sorting easier for me at the end).
I altered the directions a bit because 1) I’m all about simplicity and 2) I can never remember the rules if there are more than just a few!!
When it is your turn, you select a card from the pile. Answer correctly, keep the card. Answer incorrectly, the card goes in the discard pile. Teammates fact-check answers by rereading. If your card says “¡Cataplún!“(kaboom! in English), you lose all your cards. The student with the most cards at the end of class, wins.
- SUPER easy to customize, print, and cut out.
- Adaptable to MANY classroom review activities.
- Students STAY in the L2 the entire class period with zero prompting from me!!
- The game runs itself – I have very little to monitor.
- You can use it to lighten up a heavy topic (we are studying the Spanish Civil War… it can get a little depressing!).
- As with everything from The Comprehensible Classroom, all the hard work was already done for me!!
- Did I mention how easy it was???
