World Languages
Meet the needs of your world languages classrooms with programs covering core instruction, grammar, speaking and listening skills, assessment, culture, and more.
Spanish Is Fun
Engaging two-year high school language curriculum
- Build excitement with this fun two-year program designed to meet most high school graduation requirements.
- Engaging lessons help beginning and advancing students develop the building blocks of vocabulary and grammar while focusing on developing proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Humorous narratives, illustrated conversations, and abundant visuals make language learning accessible to all students.
- Each chapter builds cultural familiarity and insight into the daily life of various parts of the Spanish-speaking world.
- Support includes an audio program to reinforce listening comprehension, assessments, and an optional companion workbook to supplement and reinforce lessons.
- Books A and B provide the option of covering the content in Book 1 in two courses – perfect for middle school language courses.
Spanish Years 1–4
The most comprehensive review of Spanish language available!
- Each level in the series aligns with ACTFL’s Five C goal areas and provides an in-depth review of grammatical topics, word study, and French civilizations and culture.
- Topical organization allows teachers maximum classroom flexibility.
- Brief, clear explanations of grammatical structures are followed by exercises moving from simple assimilation to more challenging manipulation of elements and communication.
- Exercises provide extensive oral practice as well as reinforcement through written responses including English-to-Spanish exercises intended to sharpen writing skills.
- Carefully controlled vocabulary ensures content comprehension as students practice and apply grammatical structures.
- Comprehensive assessments include interpretive communication, interpersonal writing and speaking, presentation writing and speaking.
- Spanish Four Years features an AP® Spanish Language and Culture practice exam, portfolio assessments, and authentic literature excerpts.
Spanish Readers
Unique stories of significant value in language and culture
- All titles include reading comprehension activities and vocabulary exercises.
- Titles are available for
—beginning readers—year one, second semester
—intermediate readers—years two and three
—advanced readers—year four - Realidad y fantasía, Susana y Javier en España, and Viviana y su gran aventura mexicana include QR codes which provide additional listening comprehension tasks.
Discovering Languages: Spanish
Discover the fun of learning Spanish
- Introduce Spanish with fun and easy-to-teach lessons! Beautifully illustrated throughout, this series provides students a chance to experience a new language, country, and people through short, high-interest activities.
- The Teacher Package with a companion audio program and teacher manual provides oral exercises, dialogues, songs, and listening/speaking activities to develop basic communication skills.
Leer y Charlar
Improve Spanish conversation and reading comprehension skills
- Includes intriguing Spanish and Spanish-American selections in literature and popular culture.
- Carefully-selected passages serve as springboards for discussion on topics that appeal to the interests of high school students.
- Vocabulary exercises are presented almost exclusively in Spanish.
- Comprehension exercises, discussion questions, creative writing prompts, and individual and cooperative activities follow each reading selection.
- Before and after reading, students are provided with guided questions to help them think critically about the passage.
Spanish Classroom Libraries
Professionally-selected classroom collections of Spanish titles for your ELLs
- Support your students in becoming active, independent readers regardless of reading ability, grade level, or first and second language proficiency.
- Includes a FREE book crate.
Bilingual Titles: Spanish/English
Spanish/English titles featuring a mix of fiction and nonfiction
- Give students reading Spanish and English the opportunity to use both of their languages to improve literacy skills.
- “…recent studies found that children who are reading dual or multiliteracy materials can transfer the literacy skills and concepts developed in one language (often a strong one to a weak one) and promote overall literacy skill development.”—Professor Xiao-lei Wang, Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family
AMSCO® New College Spanish & English Dictionary, Third Edition
A modern, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary
- Define the core vocabularies of Spanish and English with a modern and authoritative resource for native speakers of either language.
- Over 85,200 entries based on current spoken and written sources.
- Provides both general and specific meanings of words and their regional limits—Mexico, Cuba, Hispanic America, and others.
- Includes examples of idiomatic uses, gender of nouns, parts of speech, and irregular inflections.
- A table of 83 model verbs of irregular form is keyed to verbs listed in the dictionary.
Conversaciones contigo
Emphasize speaking Spanish while mastering listening, reading, and writing skills
- A comprehensive text that emphasizes speaking, the language skill that many students prefer the most and many teachers find most challenging to develop effectively.
- Also provides for ample practice in reading, writing, and listening.
- Chapters based on aspects of contemporary life such as transportation, health, public services, and media are included.
- Language structure sections present and reinforce all of the topics required for a first year course in Spanish.
- Scaffolded exercises review the target vocabulary and structures while enabling students the opportunity to develop their writing and oral skills with personalized responses.
Español Esencial: Fundamentals of Spanish
Review, practice, and strengthen Spanish language and communication skills
- Provides a concise and thorough explanation and practice of Spanish grammatical concepts.
- Stand-alone chapters allow teachers the flexibility to use only what is needed and in the sequence best suited to student needs.
- Concise and clear explanations of grammar are followed by examples.
- Exercises are set in realistic contexts to provide meaningful practice.
- Many exercises are personalized to stimulate original student response and meaningful assimilation of concepts.
- The last exercise in each chapter is open-ended to provide students with the opportunity to express their personal opinions in Spanish, within the scope of the concept under study.
- A Spanish/English glossary is included.
- Appendices contain model verb tables and rules of Spanish punctuation, syllabification, and pronunciation.
Curso Primero, segundo, tercero
An in-depth review of Spanish grammar
- Develop communicative skills and an understanding of Spanish culture incorporated into a grammar review.
- Each chapter is divided into its smallest topical units, reinforced by one or more practice exercises.
- Stand-alone chapters allow teachers the flexibility to use only what is needed and in the sequence best suited to student needs.
- A variety of exercises are adapted to all levels of ability.
- Numerous cultural pieces, many accompanied by photographs, depict various aspects of the Hispanic world.
- Verb charts and English/Spanish and Spanish/English glossaries are included.
- Answer Key includes teacher dictation sentences requiring students’ oral response.
