Arte y cultura: Mardi Gras: Resta (Art and Culture: Mardi Gras: Subtraction)

Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this beloved children's story about a boy and his dog. This instructional guide for literature provides engaging activities in Spanish that incorporate these research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks. Strengthen English language learners' literacy skills by...

Find out what sets the human life cycle apart from other living things in this informative, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. With intriguing facts, informational text, and vibrant photographs, children will be introduced to the biological phases of our life cycle--from infancy to adulthood.

Gato Negro es un gato callejero, Gato Blanco es un gato casero. Dos gatos diferentes con vidas muy distintas se encuentran casualmente. Desde ese momento comienza una nueva vida para Gato Blanco como gato callejero: aprende a cazar, a disfrutar de una vida sin comodidades y poco a poco va olvidando. Pero también comienza una nueva vida para Gato Negro, pues nunca había tenido un compañero con el que compartir sus aventuras cotidianas, siempre había sido un gato solitario. Hasta que un día en el parque aparece una niña que llama a Gato Blanco por su nombre, y es el momento en el que debe ...

Cecilia and Miguel are best friends, and have been since the third grade when he gave her bunny ears in the class picture. Their life-long friendship is recorded in warm recollections of bike races and soccer games, beach time and fishing from the pier. Their closeness endures separation, "even when he drove north to college and she drove west." The relationship evolves and grows, but remains strong even when ... he dropped the ring and she found it inside her flan ... he set up one crib and she told him they need two ... the twins climb into their bed and beg for another story. In this...

The day before his birthday, Nino opens the closet and finds a huge present. In spite of his curiosity, he can't figure out what it is. When Nino opens the present the next morning, it seems boring at first, but he slowly discovers all of the surprises it holds within.

Wonderfully atmospheric illustrations capture the feeling of a foggy, gray winter afternoon as well as the lonesome, hopeful watchfulness so familiar to any child, as a little girl stands at a frosty window, drawing pictures in the condensation on the windowpane waiting for her mother to come home.