Making a Paper Airplane in Spanish: A1 Reading
Read a short A1 Spanish classroom story about folding paper, noticing details, and writing a name.
Hacer un avión de papel
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A concrete A1 Spanish classroom scene about making a paper airplane. It models folding, colors, positions, present tense, a direct-object pronoun, and a visible spelling fact about avión.
Yo doblo la hoja por la mitad. Después la abro y veo una línea en el centro. Ana dobla una esquina hacia la línea. Yo doblo la otra esquina hacia la línea. Las dos esquinas quedan juntas en el centro.
Doblamos el papel otra vez. Ana abre dos alas pequeñas. Yo paso un dedo por cada pliegue. La punta del avión queda arriba.
Ponemos el avión sobre la mesa. Ana lo levanta con cuidado y yo lo dejo sobre la mesa otra vez. Miramos sus alas, la punta y los pliegues. Cada hoja queda un poco diferente.
La palabra «avión» lleva tilde en la ó. La tilde ayuda a leer la palabra como a-vión. Así escribimos «avión» con tilde.
Al final, escribimos nuestros nombres en la hoja. Guardamos el avión en una caja de la clase.
¿Tienes una hoja de papel?
¿Dónde doblas una esquina?
¿De qué color es tu avión?
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What you'll learn
paper-folding vocabulary, colors and positions, present-tense forms of doblar, the direct-object pronoun lo, the spelling of avión, and simple color questions
A concrete A1 Spanish classroom scene about making a paper airplane. It models folding, colors, positions, present tense, a direct-object pronoun, and a visible spelling fact about avión.
After reading
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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
hacer un avión de papel
newto make a paper airplane
A phrase for creating an airplane from a sheet of paper.
It names the central activity in the story.
por la mitad
newin half
It describes folding the sheet along its middle.
It is useful for a simple folding action.
hacia la línea
newtoward the line
Hacia shows movement in the direction of the line.
It helps describe where Ana folds the corner.
en el centro
newin the center
It identifies the middle place on the sheet.
It locates the line that Ana and the narrator use.
por un lado
newon one side
It names one face of the sheet.
It helps describe the two colors of the paper.
por el otro lado
newon the other side
It names the second face of the sheet.
It contrasts the white side with the blue side.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Sheet of paper
una hoja
a sheet of paper
Here hoja means a sheet of paper.
It names the material used in the story.
A corner
una esquina
a corner
The text folds a corner toward the center line.
It is useful for describing the paper shape.
Each fold
cada pliegue
each fold
A pliegue is a line or mark left by folding paper.
It helps name a visible detail on the plane.
The point
La punta
the point
Punta means the pointed end of an object.
It identifies one visible part of the plane.
The accent mark
tilde
the accent mark
A tilde is the written accent mark in avión.
It makes the correct Spanish spelling visible.
In a box
en una caja
in a box
En una caja says where the friends keep the plane.
It gives a simple place phrase from the ending.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Doblar in the present
doblo
I fold, you fold, he or she folds
Doblar is regular: doblo, doblas, dobla. The ending changes with the subject.
These forms model the folding action in the text and its questions.
Direct-object lo
lo
it
Lo replaces el avión in the sentence Ana lo levanta.
It makes a sentence shorter without repeating avión.
The accent in avión
avión
airplane
Avión has a written accent on ó. The text shows that spelling.
It makes the correct Spanish spelling visible.
Asking about color
¿De qué color es tu avión?
What color is your airplane?
¿De qué color es...? asks about the color of one thing.
It turns the reading topic into a question for another person.
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