Wayside Publishing is excited to announce the release of EntreCultures® 2nd Edition, the only truly proficiency-based French language program. Designed by experienced French educators and professional native speakers, this four-level series teaches through the lens of interculturality, offering an unparalleled approach to language learning that’s unlike anything else.
Empower Students for Life Beyond the Classroom
Built around the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, this series immerses students in francophone cultures to foster cultural understanding and help them use the language confidently in everyday contexts.
Engage, Assess, and Grow with Wayside’s Learning Site®
- By engaging with authentic resources and observing the lives of native-speaking teens, students learn to communicate effectively in real-world situations. Differentiated assessments ensure that learners are appropriately challenged according to their skill levels, keeping them supported and motivated throughout their journey.
- Enhance Language Learning with Innovative Tools - With Learning Site®, students can engage with interactive online materials. Additionally, Can-Do Statements and Integrated Performance Assessments in the Student Portfolio enable progress tracking throughout the curriculum’s backward design.
- Learners can further reinforce their skills with Nualang™, Wayside’s innovative platform that offers a fun and safe space for interactive conversation practice, helping students build confidence.
- Streamline Instruction - Teachers have access to a wealth of resources, including lesson plans, assessment features with rubrics and answer keys, and audio and video transcripts. Instructional strategies and activity standards are available at point of use, while teacher notes provide valuable insights such as cultural context, cross-disciplinary connections, and strategies for AP® and IB programs. Activities are easy to assign, and differentiated formative assessments enable educators to customize instruction to better meet the needs of all students.
Explore EntreCultures 2nd Edition and see how it sets the standard for culturally immersive language learning.
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EntreCultures 1A & 1B ©2026
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
EntreCultures 1 ©2026
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
EntreCultures 2 ©2026
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
EntreCultures 3 ©2026
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
EntreCultures 4 ©2025; 2027
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
"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, FL
Pairs well with
Les Abeilles exploratrices
Explorer bees Gabrielle and Isabelle generally do typical chores—until one day, the Queen Bee sends for them! The queen has a special job for Gabrielle and Isabelle, and the future of the bee colony depends on them. With enemies in their path and unpredictable obstacles along the way, they fearlessly attempt to fulfill the queen’s request and face an even greater challenge. Do they stop to save someone who almost undermined their success and the entire future of their colony?
The exceptionally low unique word count and high-frequency factor (the number of times core structures are embedded in the text) in the Comprehension-based™ reader Abeilles exploratrices make this an ideal read for very beginning French students. Each page is loaded with cognates (words that are similar in English and French), recycled vocabulary, and illustrations, which makes this read highly comprehensible.
Phénix, un chien sans foyer
A street dog appears on the doorstep of an animal refuge in Nantes, France. He is very sick and needs help. Veterinary students Léo and Gabriel are determined to save the dog, but he is in very bad condition. With no home, no family, and many other animals at the veterinary clinic who need attention, the dog’s chances of recovery are slim. However, this is one extraordinary dog! Will he rise up against all odds and find a forever home with a family who will love him?
Le Vol des oiseaux
Fifteen-year-old Nathalie Gauthier had reservations about her father’s new job in Africa, but little did she know that missing her home and her friends would be the least of her worries. She finds herself in the middle of an illegal bird-trading scheme, and it’s a race against time for her father to save her and the treasured African Greys.
This Comprehension-based™ reader, ‘Le Vol les oiseaux’, strategically weaves high-frequency language structures into a compelling story. Even upper-level language students need repeated exposure to language structures in order to fully acquire them; that's why our intermediate readers maintain a high-frequency factor of high-level language structures, thus helping learners progress beyond typical proficiency levels.