Mateo is celebrating his fifth birthday. His party is held at the local bowling alley, where he and his friends bowl, eat cake, and open presents. Emerging readers will be excited to join Mateo and his friends at the bowling alley. Fun text and corresponding illustrations will demonstrate how birthdays are often celebrated in Western culture. This book is sure to be enjoyed by both emerging readers and younger children who have not yet started reading.
Getting your hair cut for the first time can be scary. However, watching your dad go first can make it less scary. Jamal and his father go to their local barbershop where the barber uses clippers to cut Jamal's hair short. This perspective of a traditional African American barbershop promotes cross-cultural understanding. The exciting text and fun illustrations are sure to grab the attention of both emerging readers and listeners alike. This book will inspire children to love reading while teaching them proper barbershop behavior.
Would you like your children to grow up bilingual, even if you aren’t yet? Then speak to your kids in Spanish as you learn the language along with them. Becoming a Bilingual Family gives English-speaking parents the tools to start speaking Spanish with their kids in their earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning languages. It teaches the vocabulary and idioms for speaking to children in Spanish and offers practical, proven ways to create a language-learning environment at home. The first part of the book introduces parents to many resources—books, audio books, music, television, computer programs, childcare workers, school, and friends—that can help you establish a home environment conducive to the acquisition of Spanish. The second part is a Spanish phrasebook that takes you through all the typical activities that parents and children share, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. Few, if any, other Spanish study aids provide this much vocabulary and guidance for talking to small children about common daily activities. The authors also include a quick course in Spanish pronunciation and enough grammar to get a parent started. Spanish-language resources, kids’ names in Spanish, and an easy-to-use index and glossary complete the book. Take the Markses’ advice and start talking to your kids in Spanish, even if it’s not perfect. You’ll learn the language together and share the excitement of discovering the peoples and cultures that make up the Spanish-speaking world.
A primary Spanish course that fosters active communication through the teaching of everyday vocabulary and structures that children can immediately use to talk about their own lives. - Introduces children to Spanish using songs, activities and reinforcement exercises - Develops speaking and listening skills through the use of simple audio texts with visuals - Presents clear lesson objectives and displays new words in attractive Word Boxes - Includes Grammar Boxes which take children through new grammar points they ha ve learned - Provides a variety of stimulating activities, using co-operative learning - Easy to use by both specialist and non-specialist teachers. As of January 2015 this and other selected titles for Caribbean schools became part of Hodder Education.
This is the ANSWER KEY to the textbook HONOUR OF KINGS SPANISH 1. This text can be purchased via our website at www.honourofkings.com. Honour of Kings Spanish I provides 19 weekly lessons, seven tests, a study guide, and a final exam. Because understanding the building blocks of a language is the first step towards fluency, students will be introduced to Spanish grammar in a simple and logical approach throughout the course. Students will build skills in reading, writing, vocabulary, and translation. By the end of the first year of Spanish, students should have a basic working knowledge of the language. They will be comfortable using the present tense and using a dictionary to translate texts from Spanish to English and vice versa. Parents may choose to use this curriculum on their own or sign up their student for one of Honour of Kings' online learning programs.
This practical, up-to-date compilation of common terms includes the English word, its definition, a sentence in English to demonstrate proper usage, and a Spanish translation, plus a quick reference section of everyday words.
The perfect first dictionary for learners of Spanish aged 3 to 6. Packed full of fun and useful everyday vocabulary, this beautifully illustrated dictionary will capture the imagination of young children and encourage a love for learning Spanish.
The new Must Know series is like a lightning bolt to the brain Developing a good grasp of Spanish doesn’t have to be a frustrating experience. This book offers a unique approach to self-study that makes it easier to build new Spanish skills. Every school subject has must know ideas, or essential concepts, that lie behind it. This book will use that fact to help you learn in a unique way. Most study guides start a chapter with a set of goals, often leaving the starting point unclear. In Must Know High School Basic Spanish, however, each chapter will immediately introduce you to the must know idea, or ideas, that lie behind the new Spanish topic. As you learn these must know ideas, the book will show you how to apply that knowledge to speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Focused on the essential concepts of Spanish, this accessible guide will help you develop a solid understanding of the subject quickly and painlessly. Clear explanations are accompanied by numerous examples and followed with more challenging aspects of Spanish. Practical exercises close each chapter and will instill you with confidence in your growing Spanish skills. Must Know High School Basic Spanish features: Each chapter begins with the must know ideas behind the new topic Extensive examples illustrate these must know ideas Students learn how to apply this new knowledge to speaking, reading, and writing Spanish 250 practical review questions instill confidence IRL (In Real Life) sidebars present real-life examples of the subject at work in culture, science, and history Special BTW (By the Way) sidebars provide study tips, exceptions to the rule, and issues students should pay extra Bonus app includes 100 flashcards to reinforce what students have learned
This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread assumption in the area of pragmatics that language communities are homogeneous and also addresses the current research gap in sociolinguistics for variation on the pragmatic level. The introductory chapter establishes the rationale for studying variational pragmatics as a separate field of inquiry, systematically sketches the broader theoretical framework and presents a framework for further analysis. The papers which follow are located within this framework. They present empirical variational pragmatic research focusing on regional varieties of pluricentric languages. Speech acts and other discourse phenomena are addressed and analysed in a number of regional varieties of Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. The seminal nature of this volume, its empirical orientation and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to both researchers and students in pragmatics and sociolinguistics.
