Trick or treat? Definitely a treat!
Catherine and I at Foreign Language House have been busy this month creating some special Halloween language learning activities. If you celebrate this American holiday, you’ll have to check out our Sabrina the Black Cat download for some friendly Halloween reading fun.
Sabrina is a fun and simple story for beginning French and Spanish students. It’s about a little black cat who just happens to live in a haunted house with some sweet but spooky friends. The narration is written in simple, present tense that just begs to be acted out through Total Physical Response (TPR.) This holiday reading is simple enough for novice-level students to enjoy and comprehend with success.
Our Sabrina the Black Cat downloads include picture flashcards for Halloween and rooms of the house vocabulary—perfect for fun vocabulary games! In addition, there’s a handy listing of all of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives used in the story.
The narration is presented in four different ways: a bilingual version (French/English or Spanish/English), French or Spanish versions with illustrations, a CLOZE (fill-in-the-blank) activity, and a mini-book to be illustrated by students. We also include some simple Sabrina songs to help reinforce language and meaning. Comprehension activities round out this short holiday unit and make it a must for elementary students, middle schoolers, or even fun-loving level 1 high school students.
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To purchase Sabrina in French, click here.
To purchase a French Sabrina PowerPoint, click here.
To purchase Sabrina in Spanish, click here.
To purchase a Spanish Sabrina PowerPoint, click here.
We hope you enjoy using the powerful context of a story to teach language this October!
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