EntreCulturas 1A & 1B

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Companion Reader Edition—for Middle School

Communicate, explore, and connect across cultures

Level 1A & Level 1B / Novice Low — Novice High

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Overview

Levels 1A and 1B of our popular and effective EntreCulturas series are designed for middle school students. The two books begin building the language skills, personal attitudes, and cultural insights necessary to experience life "entre culturas," using Spanish to connect with people. Students learn grammar and vocabulary both inductively and deductively.

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Each teacher edition of EntreCulturas shows you how to incorporate proficiency-based instruction into your classroom, provides ample tips and suggestions throughout each unit, and includes a helpful section on teaching strategies. We also provide assessment guidelines, rubrics for IPAs, analytic and holistic rubrics, and more, on Learning Site^®.
The EntreCulturas series includes AP^®and IB themes from the very beginning. and 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 EntreCulturas series is chock-full of authentic resources, like podcasts, news stations, video bloggers, and more. The resources are unit-aligned and taken from across the Spanish-speaking world.
The U.S.-based authors of EntreCulturas, 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 EntreCulturas show learners a direct connection between tasks and what they are aiming to be able to do in Spanish. 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.
EntreCulturas nurtures your learners' interculturality by layering in reflection on the products, practices, and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities, as well as how diverse language, culture, geography, and environments affect the world around them.
Wayside has more than 60 Spanish CI/ADI readers, and our library continues to grow, so you will be sure to find plenty of readers to fit your learners' needs.
Most middle school instructors cover less material in a single year than at the high school level. For this reason, we have published Level 1A and 1B. And to help middle schoolers as they return to school after summer break, Unit 3 from 1A is reviewed at the start of 1B.
EntreCulturas fully aligns with ACTFL's World-Readiness Standards and incorporates the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, performance descriptors, and proficiency guidelines.

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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 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

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

"I teach Spanish 1 and 2 using EntreCulturas and this is my third year using the program. All of the resources are very intuitive. It's easy for me to navigate the Learning Site and find resources that learners need for each lesson. It's easy for me to find the formative assessments, to assign them, and to adjust the attempts they get to receive a passing grade.

The learners like it a lot because it's very fresh. For example in the food unit, there is discussion around food trucks and the kids love it and it's easy for them to relate. Something that hit me and that I love about the family unit is how there are nontraditional families represented. It's easy for my kids to look at the images and see people who look like them. "

Stephanie Shepherd

I love how Wayside Publishing honors the Hispanic community in the United States of America in their Spanish language textbook series, EntreCulturas. It's refreshing. It’s good when the first, second and third things you see in the table of contents are related to culture instead of grammar. Great job!

Diego Ojeda

Educator,

The activities in EntreCulturas are so adaptable. You can look at the group of students in front of you in the classroom and ask, "how much do I want to extend this activity, and what are my learners getting out of it?" and if they're getting a lot out of it, I continue. If they're not, there are endless additional activities that will resonate and can be adjusted to the needs of learners in your classroom using techniques that are already in our toolbag as teachers.

Megan Hipple

Spanish Teacher, Maryland

“In my [college] Spanish education classes, I have reviewed the Wayside Publishing materials for the purpose of showing students examples of textbooks that get it right.”

Bret Linford

Associate Professor of Spanish, Grand Valley State University

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The Interactive Digital Textbook

Your FlexText^® is the page-by-page digital version of the textbook and is available through your Explorer^® class or the FlexText^® Library link on your Dashboard. Don't want to bring home your textbook? No problem! FlexText^® is available wherever there is internet access.

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.

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