This beginning Spanish short story provides engaging Spanish reading comprehension practice through comprehensible input. Designed for novice learners, the low-prep resource includes a printable story, two animated video versions, comprehension activities, a story-retell worksheet, and an answer key. Repeated target structures and visual support help students understand the Spanish while saving you preparation time.
Dulce loves cheese. She REALLY loves cheese—so much that she smells like it! Her boyfriend, Pedro, does not like cheese at all. Can Dulce find a way to keep both the cheese and Pedro, or will she have to choose between them?
In Hueles Mal, students encounter four target structures multiple times:
• ella huele mal — she smells bad
• ya no te quiero — I don’t love you anymore
• mucho queso — a lot of cheese
• él pone — he puts
The repeated language, visual support, and humorous storyline make this Spanish short story accessible to beginning and novice Spanish students. Use the story as written, pause the video to discuss and storyask, or have students add details and create a parallel story.
Students can interact with the story in several ways:
• Read the printable PDF version
• Watch the animated video with Spanish text
• Watch the illustration-only video and retell the story
• Answer reading-comprehension questions
• Complete the “Who Said It?” activity
• Reconstruct and retell the story using the included worksheet
With novice-low and novice-mid learners, present the story as written. With novice-high students, add details, create a parallel version, or use the illustrations as prompts for a more independent retelling. At higher levels, students can retell the events in the past tense.
Here’s what you’ll receive:
• Links to animated video versions with and without text
• Printable PDF version of Hueles Mal
• Comprehension-question worksheet
• “Who Said It?” worksheet
• Story-retell worksheet
• Answer key
This ready-to-use Spanish reading comprehension resource gives you a memorable story, repeated language structures, visual support, and meaningful follow-up activities in one convenient lesson.
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