Carrie Toth
Tucán
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Tucán
Comprehension-based™ Reader
An injured toucan leads to
change in Costa Rica.
Level 1 and up / Novice Mid — Intermediate Low
Overview
Panchito the toucan is beloved by the people in the town of Cataluña, Costa Rica. When a brutal attack leaves him with a badly damaged beak, the community and the nation are outraged. Can a new technology help the toucan survive? This incredible story is based on true events.
This Comprehension-based™ reader, Tucán, strategically weaves high-frequency vocabulary and language structures into a compelling story. Wayside's readers help learners acquire real language and achieve real proficiency while enjoying the reading process.
Features
- Level 1 and up
- Set in Costa Rica, Central America
- Past tense, third person
- Unique word count: 150
- Total word count: 3792
- Page count: 72
- Culture-/Ecology-based Fiction
- A 519 page Teacher's Guide is also available!
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Tucán Teacher's Guide
Our Teacher's Guides are loaded with resources to enrich the teaching and learning experience.
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519 pages, 9 chapters
IN EVERY CHAPTER
Vocabulary, cognates, comprehension questions, Blooming comprehension questions, quiz, pre-reading discussion questions slideshowExtension:
Slideshows: Tipos de tucanes que existen, Historias de animales rescatados, Centros de rescate de fauna silvestre, Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center, Impresoras 3DCultural Readings: Animales que viven en las selvas tropicales, El fútbol en Costa Rica, Animales con prótesis, Derechos animales, Datos curiosos de los tucanes, El tucán Grecia
FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS
Prep 4 Success Unit!
Speaking and Writing Prompts, Reader’s Theater, KWL Chart, Map Talk, Quite the Character, Emoji Theater, Picasso of Plates, Basquetbolito, Placement Test, Listen Up, Which Sitch Is Which?, Grudgeball, Lucky Reading Game, 6 of One Half Dozen of Another, Cupside Down, Find the Faker, Toma uno, por favor, Unfair Game, Move or Keep, Seis, Musical Chairs Retell, Comprehension Based Assessment, Traditional Assessment
The Digital Package includes access to Learning Site®
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.
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.
