11 Afrolatino influencers | ENGLISH

Looking for simple biographies for your English learners to read?

This product features one-page, easy to understand, basic biographies of 11 influential Afro-latino individuals. The biographies are written with limited vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and years are written written out to support students learning number words in English. The kind of information shared about each figure is similar so that students benefit from the natural repetition of vocabulary across all biographies. 

Each biography is accompanied by a one-page worksheet with 10 True/False questions--in English--about the reading. Answer keys are included.

BIOGRAPHIES INCLUDED:

• Cardi B (USA, rapper)
• Epsy Campbell (Costa Rica, politician)
• Laz Alonso (USA, actor)
• Concha Buika (Spain/Ecuatorial Guinea, singer)
• John Carlos (USA, athlete)
• Gwen Ifill (USA, TV journalist)
• Prine Royce (USA, singer)
• Idalys Ortiz (Cuba, athlete)
• Taio Cruz (England, composer/producer)
• Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica, politician)
• DJ Jigüe (Cuba, DJ)

PRODUCT FORMAT

The product download is a PDF that contains a clickable link to a Drive folder. The Drive folder contains a printable PDF of the texts and activities as well as a Slides file that can be used to assign paperless worksheets to students via a Learning Management System.

Need a follow-up activity? Try...

• Write and Discuss as a class
• having students create a Smashdoodle™
• Quiz Quiz Trade, where each students writes one question about one biography
• asking True/False questions about each figure using Pencil Grab
• allowing each student to pick a Textivities task to complete