Bilingual Children's Book Project in Spanish Preterite Tense - print and digital

This 4-day (for 50-minute classes) project is designed to be a dual-language children's book in Spanish using the preterite tense. There are both paper and digital Google Slides versions. Students narrate the adventures of a favorite cartoon character (clipart not provided), writing where s/he went and what s/he did, and coloring in the pictures and scenery. Students also write an "Author's Biography" paragraph and a "Dedication Page" for fun. It is a dual-language project so that students can take their completed projects home and teach their younger siblings or cousins!

This project includes:

• a rubric
• a rough draft form
• an example "Author's Biography"
• an example "Dedication Page"
• a teacher's guide with suggestions for how to guide students through the project
• links to the rubric, rough draft, example Author's Bio, example Dedication page, and template on Google Slides

The rubric includes a checklist of all tasks students must complete, broken down by day. The rubric requires students to include forms of ir in the preterite and regular -AR verbs, however the vocabulary could be expanded to include other irregular verbs, -car/-gar/-zar verbs, or any other special verbs.

This project could easily be modified for another tense (present or future!), or a particular set of vocabulary. Your students are guaranteed to have fun, demonstrate their mastery of the preterite, and impress you with their creativity!

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