This innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based and content-based, giving students the opportunity to practice and improve their language skills by completing specific tasks or goals, and to learn about various topics through engaging readings from a variety of disciplines.
Sabias que...? uses a content-based approach, stressing vocabulary and functional use of language. The unique content focus presents students with timely issues as they learn the language. Units are organized like individual magazines within the text and focus on high-interest topics that relate to students' lives, inviting students to read and discuss them. Heavy emphasis on skill development makes this text ideal for a proficiency-oriented program.
This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based as well as content-based. A task-based approach requires students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks. "Sabias que . . . ? is content-based in that it includes readings from a variety of disciplines.
This innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based and content-based, giving students the opportunity to practice and improve their language skills by completing specific tasks or goals, and to learn about various topics through engaging readings from a variety of disciplines.
A heartfelt picture book based on the author-illustrator's own experiences, about a boy who moves to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico and realizes that New York City might have more in common with San Juan than he initially thought. Miguel's pet frog, Coquí, is always with him: as he greets his neighbors in San Juan, buys quesitos from the panadería, and listens to his abuelo's story about meeting baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Then Miguel learns that he and his parents are moving to the U.S. mainland, which means leaving his beloved grandparents, home in Puerto Rico, and even Coquí behind. Life in New York City is overwhelming, with unfamiliar buildings, foods, and people. But when he and Mamá go exploring, they find a few familiar sights that remind them of home, and Miguel realizes there might be a way to keep a little bit of Puerto Rico with him--including the love he has for Coquí--wherever he goes.