Note: The audio of the listening only appears on our YouTube channel. There is another sheet with the 5 stories on one page, but this time with certain words missing and replaced by a blank line where students can fill with the word they hear on the listening. This is can be used where the teacher gives the comprehension questions orally, or can be used in conjunction with the audio on our YouTube channel so they can read as they listen (without the distraction of other activities on the page). We have now included a sheet with the 5 stories on one page (without exercises). These reading passages would be great in an emergency as a quick filler and you may also find them useful to hand out to fast finishers (so they don’t disrupt others).Īll reading texts, questions and instructions are 100% in Spanish making it ideal for language immersion classrooms. You could do a worksheet every day (lasting a school week) or leave them as homework. These worksheets should only take 10-15 minutes each so are a great item to warm up a class or to end the day.
Story 5: El Leprechaun – A story about Ana who goes looking for a duende (leprechaun). Story 4: La Isla Esmeralda – A reading passage about why Ireland is called the Emerald Isle. Story 3: El trébol – The third reading passage is about a class celebrating this day and what the trébol (three-leaf clover) means. Story 2: El festival de San Patricio – The next reading is about the traditional St. Story 1: San Patricio – The first short reading passage is about the Saint San Patricio (Saint Patrick) and is in the past tense. The rest of the page has simple comprehension questions to check understanding. They are written in the Simple Present Tense or the Past Tense. The five stories are short texts with three paragraphs each. That study, “ School Choice International: Higher private school share boosts national test scores,” by Martin West and Ludger Woessmann, appears in the Winter 2009 issue of Education Next.Simple Reading Activities in Spanish about el Día de San Patricio (Saint Patrick’s Day) for students learning Spanish (Spanish 2). Max Ehrenfreund seconds this point on Wonkblog.Ī study published in Education Next found that in countries where a large sector of private Catholic schools emerged in the 19th century, competition from private schools still improves student achievement for both public and private school students today. And the Catholic nature of the schools means there is some natural overlap with the Latin American cultures from whence these new arrivals have come.
They are 2½ times more likely to graduate from college. Latinos who attend Catholic schools are 42% more likely to graduate from high school. “There’s the pity,” he continues, “because just as they did in the days of the great Irish migrations, Catholic schools in our own time hold out perhaps the best hope for the assimilation and upward advancement of a new wave of immigrants: Latinos.” He notes, Patrick’s Day, as always, “what will likely go unheralded is the singular achievement of the Irish in their adopted homeland: the Catholic school system that stretches across the nation and ranges from kindergarten through college.” So writes William McGurn in today’s Wall Street Journal.
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