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American Sabor: Word Search #1 WorksheetAmerican Sabor: Word Search #1 Worksheet
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American Sabor: Word Search #1

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Find la guitarra and el charango with a short and straightforward word search focused on Latin American music. Learners check through a list of popular instruments and dances before delving into the puzzle.

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Concepts

latin america, Music, musicians, instruments, latin american music

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair with a music appreciation lesson on Latin American music, or when discussing influential genres of music in American history
  • Use as a warm-up activity before instruction begins

Classroom Considerations

  • Answer key is in color
  • Designed for use with lesson plans, which are available on the publisher's website
  • Solutions are forwards, backwards, up, and down, but not diagonal

Pros

  • Provides an answer key for easy assessment
  • List of Latin American music terms is a good start

Cons

  • There is a typo on the worksheet that cannot be edited

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