HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN THE SECONDARY ELA CLASSROOM
Looking for Hispanic Heritage Month activities that go deeper than a slideshow of facts? You want texts your grades 6–12 readers actually connect with — close reading that builds skills, authors worth celebrating, and nonfiction that earns real discussion — and you want it ready without building from scratch. Everything below is organized by how you teach within The Four Reading Realms, so you can grab exactly the piece your unit is missing.
Free Sample: Hispanic Heritage Month Close Reading Passage
Grab a ready-to-teach close reading passage on family, heritage, and identity — a real sample from the full 9–12 theme stack, so you can teach it Monday and see exactly how your readers respond before you commit.
Novel Studies & Close Reading for Hispanic Heritage Month
Anchor Hispanic Heritage Month in texts you read closely and think through together — from skill-building close reading passages to a novel in verse, a poetry-and-research project that carries the season into Día de los Muertos, and the poets and cultural context to teach alongside them.
Close Reading Passages: Family, Heritage & Identity (9–12 Skill Practice) — the full stack your free sample comes from; ready-to-teach passages with skill practice
📦 Resource → SHOP HERE
Day of the Dead Poetry & Research Assignment — extend the season into early November; poetry + research students plan now and teach later
📦 Resource → SHOP HERE
7 Latinx Poets to Teach — poets your readers should meet, ready to drop into a lesson
📝Blog → READ IT HERE
6 Ways to Highlight Latinx Culture — practical moves for honoring these voices all year
📝 Blog → READ IT HERE
How to Teach The Poet X — teach Elizabeth Acevedo's novel in verse; an Afro-Latina coming-of-age story students devour
🎧 Podcast → LISTEN HERE
Started with the free passage? The full stack is your next step — same depth, a whole unit's worth.
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DAY OF THE DEAD
Combine research and poetry in this multi-purpose project. Students explore poets of the past and learn the history of an important cultural tradition.
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CLOSE READING
Practice close reading skills featuring Latine authors. All passages connect around themes of family heritage and dual identity.
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FEATURED POETS
Looking for some new poetry to incorporate into your classroom? Start here with these 7 Latine poets that students love year after year.
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THE POET X
Wondering how to approach a novel in verse? Here is a step-by-step planning guide for getting started with The Poet X.
Independent Reading for Hispanic Heritage Month
Fill your shelves and your students' hands with Latinx voices — book lists, poets worth teaching, and a display set that turns your room into an invitation to read.
Latinx Poets & Authors Decor & Library Display — build a reading culture that celebrates these authors all season
📦 Resource → GRAB IT HERE
Hispanic Heritage Month Books for Secondary ELA — the reading list to build your unit and your classroom library around
📝 Blog → READ IT HERE
To Celebrate Diverse Voices: Latinx Writers (Brave New Teaching, S1 E24) — the conversation behind the teaching
🎧 Podcast → LISTEN HERE
Want the display set that ties the room together? The Latinx Poets & Authors decor makes it effortless.
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AUTHOR POSTERS
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with unique and beautiful classroom decor. Poets and authors are featured in each poster with quotes .
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12 YA BOOK RECS
Grouped by question, these books written by Latine authos are wonderful for students to read independently or add to a lit circle unit.
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READ THESE
Here is a list of 100+ books from Latine authors. Use this list to share with students, host first chapter Friday, and more!
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DIVERSE VOICES
Let us share some wonderful new and loved voices from Latine authors that deserve a spotlight in your classroom — now and throughout the year.
Nonfiction & Real-World Texts for Hispanic Heritage Month
Give students choice and real informational text to dig into — structured enough to assign tomorrow, open enough to let them follow what interests them.
Hispanic Heritage Month Choice Board: Reading Informational Text — student-choice nonfiction activities, ready to assign · 📦 Resource → SHOP HERE
This choice board is where a lot of teachers start — it's how this whole collection began.
