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EntreCultures 1 ©2026

2nd Edition

Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures

Level 1 / Novice Low — Novice High

Overview

EntreCultures® 2nd Edition is a four-level, standards-based program that teaches French through the lens of interculturality. It brings language to life through proficiency-based learning, using authentic resources and immersing students in the lives of real teens from francophone communities.

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Boost Language Learning with Innovative Platforms
Level 1 of EntreCultures 2nd Edition includes access to Learning Site®, offering students dynamic digital content, progress tracking, and online activities that fully align with the textbook. Students can also reinforce their learning through engaging and interactive conversation practice with Nualang™.

Streamline Instruction with Teaching Resources
Educators have access to a wealth of resources in the new Teacher Edition notes, which provide answer keys, instructional strategies, and activity standards at point of use. Also included are Can-Do Statements and targeted strategies for AP® and IB programs, enabling educators to customize and enhance their instruction to meet the needs of all students.

Browse the features below to discover everything EntreCultures has to offer.

Practice Listening and Speaking

Nualang offers students a dynamic platform to practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a fun, supportive environment. It empowers students to engage with confidence, providing instant feedback and promoting learning through interactive gameplay and engaging conversation.

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EntreCultures Features

Each teacher edition of EntreCultures provides guidance in incorporating proficiency-based instruction in your classroom, provides ample tips and ideas throughout each unit, and includes a section on teaching strategies.
The EntreCultures series leads with AP^®and IB themes. Teacher resources in the front and end matter of the Teacher Edition outline AP^® and IB themes and subthemes, so you can start your learners on the right foot.
The EntreCultures series is full of unit-aligned authentic resources from more than thirty francophone cultures around the world, like podcasts, news stations, video bloggers, and more.
The U.S.-based authors of EntreCultures, all educators and leaders in the field, considered a variety of learner and educator styles in the backward design of the series.
Assignable Can-Do statements in each unit of EntreCultures show learners a direct connection between tasks and what they are aiming to be able to do in French. Learners can upload completed Can-Do assignments to their student portfolios to show growth, and when it is time to evaluate their learning, students can complete performance-based formative and summative assessments.
Wayside has more than 20 French CI/ADI readers, and our library continues to grow. With our leveled EntreCultures CI/ADI Correlation Guide, you will be sure to find plenty of readers to fit your learners' needs.
EntreCultures nurtures your learners' interculturality by reflecting on the products, practices, and perspectives of francophone communities, as well as on how diverse languages, cultures, geography, and environments affect the world around them.
EntreCultures fully aligns with ACTFL's World-Readiness Standards and incorporates the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, performance descriptors, and proficiency guidelines.

All the Support You Need

Professional Development

Wayside's instructional leaders make it easy to access timely, free professional development opportunities with synchronous, guided sessions and a digital archive of past PD presentations.

Enhance Your Teaching Skills
Conferences

Our Instructional Strategists and Technologists speak on topics relating to proficiency, comprehensible input, and more, at conferences throughout the year.

Find Wayside at Your Next Conference
Podcasts

Wayside's podcasts, Language Lounge and CI Diaries, discuss wide-ranging topics that affect educators.

Listen, Learn, and Be Inspired
Reading Room

Is there a topic you want to learn more about? Explore our Reading Room for articles by our Instructional Designers and other world languages educators in the field.

Find A Story
Grants and Scholarships

Wayside's Languages Matter Grants and Scholarships Program offers awards to teachers. With new topics and awards each month, there are plenty of opportunities to get your idea funded.

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Extra Support On Demand

Our Support Center houses a wealth of articles that touch on the nitty-gritty of using Wayside products, and our U.S.-based Customer Support staff are available Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST.

Wayside Support Center

As the World Languages Coordinator for Tulsa Public Schools, EntreCulturas and EntreCultures are my top textbook choices for Spanish and French.

Whitney Stafford-Najibi

OFLTA President-Elect, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wayside Publishing not only provides high-quality teaching materials, but they are a great company to work with. Their generosity and support in sponsoring the non-profit Manie Musicale Collaborative have been incredible. I highly recommend their personable and helpful staff.

Michelle Fournier

French teacher, Falmouth, Maine

"Historically, I have never really been a textbook following language teacher - but wow, Wayside Publishing's EntreCultures blew me away this week when I reviewed it for school adoption this fall! Bravo!"

Jeannie Starman

French Teacher, NC

"With units built around rich cultural topics and compelling essential questions, EntreCulturas and EntreCultures are the perfect fit for our IB Middle Years Programme. We love the focus on the development of both language and cultural proficiency and the wide range of communicative learning activities that work as well in middle school as they do for high school learners."

Molly Wieland

K-12 World Language and Immersion Coordinator, Hopkins, MN

"I can't write enough about how great EntreCultures is. I love that it has the themes and the essential questions from the AP^®, starting in level one! It is so much more 'real' to have all the lessons in context, meaningful, relevant, connected, and correlated in a manner that gears students for higher-level thinking and learning. By the time they take AP^®, they will be so prepared."

A. Leonardo

Educator,

The Digital Package includes access to Learning Site^®

A Community Bulletin Board

Learners and teachers alike use the Classroom Forum anytime as their online community bulletin board. Teachers love posting lesson openers, polls, links to external resources, and more. And students can comment, exchange GIFS, and upload audio, videos, and photos.

Learning to hold a conversation

Mock conversations with pre-recorded conversation prompts challenge your learners to hone their conversational skills. Learners record themselves replying to comments and questions, and the recorded conversations can be added to their portfolio as an artifact.

Tracking Their Own Progress

Online student portfolios follow learners from unit to unit, level to level. Students can upload evidence of what they can do in the language - assigned Can-Do statements, activities, quizzes, audio files, PowerPoint and Word files, and more. This allows them to set goals and reflect on their progress related to Can-Do Statements.

Efficient, Integrated Grading

Use the online calendar to remind students of upcoming assignments and deadlines, assign tasks to specific learners or an entire class, and more. Explorer^® lets you know when your students complete their work and alerts students as soon as you’ve graded. Grade each quiz question response without opening each question in Explorer^®. Automatic grading is available where appropriate.

More Than 200 Ideas

Wayside’s Instructional Strategies Toolkit provides loads of instructional ideas and approaches that can be filtered by mode, skill, proficiency level, activity type, learning style, and more! Whether you are a new teacher or want to find new strategies, the toolkit provides built-in world language methodology and pedagogy training at any time.

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EntreCultures 1 ©2026

EntreCultures 1 ©2026