Help Heritage Spanish students make purposeful choices when sharing information across languages. In this 55–70-minute lesson, learners analyze a low-stakes message, decide whether to relay, clarify, or refer, preserve core meaning and register, and explain an ethical boundary. The pack frames bilingual mediation as an asset while keeping consequential interpreting outside the lesson. This original, ready-to-teach resource is designed for Heritage Spanish 3 and 4 educators and is adaptable for advanced secondary bilingual classrooms. Students move from guided noticing and supported practice to an observable performance task. The teacher pages include timing, restart cues, differentiated access options, answer guidance, a criterion-aligned rubric, and a scored exemplar.
The lesson treats bilingualism and community language as assets. Academic and professional conventions are taught as added choices for particular audiences and purposes—not as replacements for identity, regional language, or home varieties.
Context check: Use low-stakes, invented scenarios. Consequential interpreting remains outside this lesson; follow local referral and safeguarding procedures.
Digital download. No physical item will be shipped. This classroom resource is not a standardized or norm-referenced assessment and is not intended for formal placement. One purchase grants a single-educator classroom-use license; see the included Customer License for details.
At a glance
• Grades 9–12
• 55–70 minutes
• PDF + editable DOCX
• Single-educator classroom-use license
What’s included
• 17-page complete PDF
• Editable DOCX
• Teacher launch and timing guide
• Student tasks and performance prompt
• Observable rubric, answer guidance, and scored exemplar
• Buyer quick start and single-educator license
Help Heritage Spanish students make purposeful choices when sharing information across languages. In this 55–70-minute lesson, learners analyze a low-stakes message, decide whether to relay, clarify, or refer, preserve core meaning and register, and explain an ethical boundary. The pack frames bilingual mediation as an asset while keeping consequential interpreting outside the lesson. This original, ready-to-teach resource is designed for Heritage Spanish 3 and 4 educators and is adaptable for advanced secondary bilingual classrooms. Students move from guided noticing and supported practice to an observable performance task. The teacher pages include timing, restart cues, differentiated access options, answer guidance, a criterion-aligned rubric, and a scored exemplar.
The lesson treats bilingualism and community language as assets. Academic and professional conventions are taught as added choices for particular audiences and purposes—not as replacements for identity, regional language, or home varieties.
Context check: Use low-stakes, invented scenarios. Consequential interpreting remains outside this lesson; follow local referral and safeguarding procedures.
Digital download. No physical item will be shipped. This classroom resource is not a standardized or norm-referenced assessment and is not intended for formal placement. One purchase grants a single-educator classroom-use license; see the included Customer License for details.
At a glance
• Grades 9–12
• 55–70 minutes
• PDF + editable DOCX
• Single-educator classroom-use license
What’s included
• 17-page complete PDF
• Editable DOCX
• Teacher launch and timing guide
• Student tasks and performance prompt
• Observable rubric, answer guidance, and scored exemplar
• Buyer quick start and single-educator license
