Cuentos y Lecturas™

Cuentos y Lecturas™ includes the following features making it one of the most comprehensive TPRS® series available!

• Vocabulary based on most frequent spoken vocabulary
• Structures are presented based on frequency of use
• Integrated Culture
• Stories in past-tense with present-tense dialogue
• Paired Situations for oral practice and assessment
• Available in both Print and Downloadable Formats
• Comprehensive Student Book including:
  • Written Mini-Stories and Extended Stories
  • Vocabulary Lists and detailed Glossary
  • Illustrations for each story
  • Personal Questions utilizing targeted vocabulary
  • Comprehension Questions based on the stories
  • Structure-based Questions to practice targeted structures
  • Activities to expand the lesson including point-of-view, tense changes, and what-if scenarios
  • Project Ideas to further explore the language
  • Mnemonic Devices to aid in learning key vocabulary
  • Study Guides to focus students' learning
• Exhaustive Teacher Guide including:
  • Detailed Daily Lesson Plans including objectives that are tied to the standards
  • TPR Lessons with scripted novel commands and 3-ring-circus ideas
  • Minicuento Lessons including Skeleton Stories
  • Detailed and easy-to-read Lesson Scripts
  • Gesture and Mnemonic-device suggestions
  • Listening Activites and Practice utilizing native speakers**
• Comprehensive Assessment Program including:
  • Vocabulary Quizzes (both active and passive)
  • Structure Quizzes
  • Listening and Reading Quizzes with questions in English and Spanish
  • Suggestions for Writing and Speaking Quizzes
  • Vocabulary and Structure Tests
  • Skills Tests assessing 4 Basic Skills and Culture
  • Benchmarks/Final Assessments
  • Detailed and easy-to-use Rubrics
  • Detaild instructions on how to set up and implement a Standards-based Grading System in the foreign-language classroom.

**will not be available in first edition

Welcome to Cuentos y Lecturas™!

This is the home of an exciting new TPRS® book series that's currently under development and I want to hear from you, both teachers and students!

I want to know what you think, what you want, what's important to you, and what's not.

We've all complained that textbook writers/publishers either have never been in the classroom or haven't in a very long time and have little idea what a modern textbook, let alone a TPRS® textbook, should look like in our classrooms of today.

Here's your chance to let me know what you're thinking so that I can make one of the best TPRS® textbooks available.

Go to the forums and express your opinion on any of the topics. If you don't see a topic you like, go ahead and add it. The more dialogue, the better the end-result will be!

Also, if you're currently a TPRS® teacher, please let us know which series you are using or if you're writing your own stories.

What ever your involvement, stop by frequently as the site and the book grows. There will be sample pages and stories, and example activities as the project develops.

Feel free to contact me with any comments or suggestions!

¡Gracias!