Wayside takes proficiency-based world language education seriously—so much so that we pioneered proficiency-based textbooks and digital solutions. Take a look at how we write our textbooks, and then scroll through this page to learn more about our products.
Wayside's educator authors combined leading research in neuroscience and educational pedagogy with decades of classroom-tested strategies, so teachers do not have to start from scratch in order to foster intercultural competency and align with biliteracy standards. Learn more.
With the goal of learner proficiency, Wayside creates programs using backward design. Starting with defining what we want students to be able to do and know, we then develop assessments in all three modes of communication. Finally, we create lessons and activities to help learners to gain the knowledge. Learn more.
With Wayside, learners have a uniquely intercultural classroom experience. Our programs help make connections to local, national, and international cultures, encourage exploration of individual and community identities, and widen understanding of other cultures as different vs. foreign. Learn more.
Wayside embraces a differentiated instructional approach to meet the needs of all learners. From differentiated activities in Learning Site's® Instructional Strategies Toolkit to formative assessments in each unit, educators can adjust the learning experience to suit the needs of individuals. Learn more.
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Our flagship Spanish and French series are chock full of authentic resources, communicative activities, and opportunities for self-assessment. And the teacher resources, created by U.S.-based teachers and world language education professionals, cannot be matched.
EntreCulturas builds students' language proficiency from novice-low to intermediate-high through the lens of interculturality and real-world communication. Students learn appropriate ways to interact with a variety of people and perspectives through exposure to the lives of peers across the Spanish-speaking world.
Communicate, explore, and connect across cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
The standards-based EntreCultures program is all about teaching French language and francophone cultures to novice and intermediate learners through the lens of interculturality. Students engage with authentic resources from the beginning, and by exploring the lives of teens across the francophone world, they discover suitable ways to interact with a variety of people and perspectives.
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
InterKulturell is a new comprehensive four-level, proficiency-based, thematically organized program that fosters a lifelong love for learning the German language and culture.
Wayside has Comprehension-Based Readers™, novellas, and anthologies at all levels from novice-low through advanced-high. Whether supplementing classroom instruction or adding to your FVR library, you are sure to find the ones that fit your learners' needs.
We have even created guides to help you know which readers work with the different levels of EntreCulturas and EntreCultures.
Wayside has Spanish Comprehension-Based Readers™ and novellas in levels novice-low through intermediate-high and in a wide range of topics.
Our French Comprehension-based™ readers, novellas, and anthologies come in a wide variety of topics for novice-low through advanced-high learners.
