12th Grade Holidays/Seasonal Assessment

Winter Holiday Traditions Guide Infographic Activity – Create a guide comparing Hispanic Christmas and Winter celebrations with one of your own!

This resource guides students through creating a visually appealing infographic that compares a winter holiday tradition from a Spanish-speaking country with one from the U.S. (or another relevant culture).

What’s Included:

• Step-by-step instructions for students
• Research prompts and guiding questions
• Templates for comparing traditions
• Tips for using visuals and infographics to communicate ideas effectively

This project promotes cultural awareness and reinforces students’ language skills through research, collaboration, and creative presentation. It’s perfect for upper-level high school Spanish classes looking to deepen their understanding of global traditions while practicing descriptive language and critical thinking.

Looking for other Christmas and Holiday activities? Check out these:

12 Days of Christmas and Winter Holiday Unit

Winter Holiday Choice Board

Looking for ideas after the break? Here are a couple:

Winter Break Chat Cards

End of Semester Student Reflection

Need an engaging resource that helps your secondary ELL Newcomers practice Speaking and Listening comprehension AND is in the Personal Narrative Genre?? This resource has it all!

This resource includes:

• 3 Listening comprehension personal narrative stories EACH with 3 individual chunked out memories for NINE total listening activities
• QR codes so you students can scan the code and hear the listening prompts
• Speaking responses with frames and language supports
• Listening comprehension questions
• Language supports
• Make predictions
• Visuals
• Engaging secondary topics on Chinese New Year, Eid, and First time to the beach
• Tons of supports for Newcomers

Winter Holiday Choice Board Activity – Explore Hispanic Christmas and Winter celebrations!

Looking for a fun and meaningful way to explore Christmas and winter holiday traditions in your Spanish class? This Winter Holiday Choice Board offers a variety of creative tasks for students at all learning levels (novice to advanced) to deepen their understanding of holiday celebrations across the Spanish-speaking world. With two versions of the choice board provided—one for lower levels and one for advanced levels—students can explore cultural traditions while practicing their Spanish language skills through tasks like designing greeting cards, creating playlists, writing reflections, and more.

This resource includes a tailored rubric to assess creativity, content quality, and effort. This flexible resource is perfect for engaging students in holiday-themed activities that emphasize cultural appreciation and language learning.

Looking for other Christmas and Holiday activities? Check out these:

12 Days of Christmas and Winter Holiday Unit

Winter Traditions Guide Infographic

Looking for ideas after the break? Here are a couple:

Winter Break Chat Cards

End of Semester Student Reflection

Do you want to give your Secondary ESL students an engaging resource to get them speaking, listening, and learning about Martin Luther King Jr Day and the Civil Rights Movement? This secondary ELL Listening and Speaking Activity has everything you need! 

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

• 6 Listening activities WITH QR codes to hear the stories aloud
• 6 Speaking frames for students to practice speaking
• Engaging topics on the 1950's, segregation in schools, women's rights, entertainment, and more
• Two speaking assessments (one for each set)
• Tons of vocabulary and visuals built in for Entering & Emerging students
• Directions (printable) for recording student speaking responses on Vocaroo 

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosa G. wrote, “Great Listening and Speaking activities. The QR codes were fantastic as were the visuals and organization. My students loved doing this activity to learn more about the 1950's and MLK!”

This unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE unit. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

➡️ Bundle & SAVE - ESL Newcomer MLK Jr Day Civil Rights Bundle

Newcomer Professional Development

Use these conference slips to have your ELL students use before and during your writing conference throughout the writing process. You can use the Halloween themed slip or the editable Google Doc.