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Hispanic Heritage Month lesson plans do more than fill your fall calendar. In ELA, you can use them to help students study author voice, poetry, and cultural context through readings that invite discussion and analysis.
Use these Newsela ELA resources from September 15 to October 15 to plan lessons around Hispanic authors, poetry, stories, and present-day cultural connections.
Author studies are a great way to help students connect literature to voice, craft, and lived experiences. Use these Hispanic Heritage Month lesson plans to introduce students to storytellers through multimodal resources like interviews, biographies, and videos.
Poetry gives students a focused way to study theme, imagery, and word choice during Hispanic Heritage Month. Choose poems students can read closely, discuss together, or compare across authors or topics.
Paired texts help students connect literature with nonfiction context. Use these Hispanic Heritage Month ELA resources to teach comparing main ideas, analyzing author’s purpose, and discussing genre and style while supporting their thinking with evidence from both texts.
Culture-focused text sets can help students connect ELA skills to history, language, and traditions that you want to cover and explore during Hispanic Heritage Month. Use these resources to choose multimodal content that adds context before discussion, close reading, or written responses.
Use this text set to build background before a novel study, independent reading activity, or a discussion about language and cultural traditions. It’s particularly helpful when you’re doing an ELA lesson that asks students to connect informational text to identity, setting, and representation.
To keep the lesson focused, have students choose one article from the text set and track two details: One that helps them understand a specific cultural practice, place, or community; and one that raises a question they want to discuss.
Use this text set to give students a glance at Hispanic culture across areas like myths, film, music, and food. They can choose one resource for independent reading or compare two texts that approach culture through different genres.
For a focused ELA task, ask students to identify what the text teaches about a tradition, story, or cultural practice. Then have them explain how the resource’s genre shapes the way the author presented that information.
Hispanic Heritage Month lesson plans can help students read across genres, study authors and poets, and build background knowledge about culture. But these lessons don’t have to end in October. The same resources can support these goals and other ELA skills throughout the school year.
As you plan, choose the resource that best fits the ELA skill you want students to practice next. A short poem might work well for close reading, while paired texts support evidence-based discussion.
With Newsela ELA and the entire Newsela Learning Suite, you can keep finding texts that match your students, your standards, and topics that make reading feel relevant. Sign up for free and start your 45-day trial of premium content and explore more ELA resources for Hispanic Heritage Month and beyond.
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Use Hispanic Heritage Month STEM activities to teach about Hispanic scientists, space exploration, ecology, and science careers.
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Explore Hispanic Heritage Month books for elementary, middle, and high school ELA, with Newsela novel studies and ready-to-use activities.
