This activity is a great way to get your students used to Integrated Performance Assessments. I like to call them mini IPAs because they are a shortened version of a full IPA and they don't scare students with how long they are.

This product includes...

• An authentic infographic about the best things to do in Riviera Maya from BestDay.
• An accompanying worksheet with IPA-style questions such as key word recognition, supporting details, and guessing meaning from context.
• An answer key to make your life easier!

Suggested uses...

• Look at the highlighted vocabulary and decide when to best incorporate it into your unit on travel. Two ways to use this activity are explained below, but the possibilities are endless.

• Mini IPA:  This activity becomes a part of an integrated performance lesson that usually spans about two class periods (high school). Rather than just giving IPAs at the end of a unit, I try to create several integrated performance lessons throughout my unit that help build my students’ proficiency. This would come as interpretive activity in the lesson. Get the rest of the lesson at my store. 

• Interpretive Starter: In this scenario, I use this product as a stand-alone activity that my students are given at the beginning of class to practice recently-learned vocabulary. Maybe they learned some of the highlighted vocabulary last class. I usually allow them to work in groups and give them between 10-20 minutes to complete this starter depending on the length (this is a shorter one I use at the beginning of my unit on travel). Then, I bring the class back together and we talk about the infographic, what questions they have, the main idea, etc.