Spanish Reading Activity: Character Dating Profile (Video Preview)

I love this fiction reading comprehension activity and use it all the time in upper levels of Spanish and Spanish Immersion. At any point in the reading process after students get to know characters, kids fill out this online dating profile as though they were a character from the present reading. This is definitely best in pairs or trios. It forces kids to get into the mind of a character and use their Spanish to discuss how the character would fill out their profile. After groups have completed the dating profile, I hold a class discussion bouncing around between different items on the profile and asking groups to explain why they answered how they answered. This is super fun, and if you have a group of talkers, you're certain to get some debate -- ¡¿cómo que dices que Quijote se cree calmado?! -- Sancho es chismoso, ya lo sé -- and some funny moments.

Keywords: Spanish, Spanish Literature, Spanish Reading, Interpersonal communication, Interpretive communication, L2 reading, Spanish activity, Spanish story