Las estrellas: "Brilla, brilla, estrellita" y "Estrella alumbrada, estrella brillante" (The Stars: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Star Light, Star Bright)

Trabajadores de mi escuela (Workers at My School) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on all the different people who work at a school, children will be introduced to different school employees. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs, and large font to encourage students to examine different types of school workers. Aligned with state standards, Trabajadores de mi...

What makes a good friend? Soy un buen amigo (I Am a Good Friend) teaches students about friendship. The clear, text-supported images and simple, repetitive sentences will engage students in reading as they build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a glossary and index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.

As three children look up in the night sky at the stars, three stars look down at the earth at the children! The stars twinkle and the children twirl as they make wishes on each other! Students can learn the classic nursery rhymes Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Star Light, Star Bright while acting out this clever story based on the rhymes. This Spanish-translated script includes six roles, each of which match a different reading level. Teachers can apply differentiation and English language learner strategies to the script to assign roles in a way that accommodates all students, whether...

¿Qué pasaría si las hermanas March, las queridas protagonistas del clásico Mujercitas, hubieran nacido en una sociedad totalitaria? En la ciudad ideal de Concordia todos son Buenos Ciudadanos. Hacen su vida y su día a día es plácido y sin sobresaltos, al menos, mientras obedezcan las normas y al gobierno que les vigila en todo momento. Entre los Buenos Ciudadanos de Concordia, la familia March es una de las más respetadas y las hijas de la familia son todo lo que se espera de ellas: talentosas, dóciles, buenas hermanas y buenas ciudadanas, pero todo esto cambiará en cuanto comiencen ...

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.

Seven science fiction stories explore encounters between humans and extraterrestrials, space exploration, the planets, and related topics and reveal the effects that knowing other worlds and their inhabitants might have on humankind.

Told that he is too young to wear a mask at the Fiesta, Niäno make his own mask and surprises his family and the whole village. Includes a glossary of Spanish words and an author's note.