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Scholastic Recommends: Grades K–3

Gathering the Sun/Cosecha de Sol: An Alphabet in Spanish and English by Alma Flor Ada (Grades PreK–K)

United by themes of harvest, work, values, and home, twenty-eight poems honor the lives of migrant farm workers and celebrate an alphabetical list of Spanish words. Each poem appears first in Spanish and then in an English translation on the same page.

Taking a Walk/Caminando: Taking a Walk/Caminando: A Book in Two Languages by Rebecca Emberley (Grades PreK–1)

Rebecca Emberly provides a lovely, lyrical look at a local environment — from home to school to town — in both English and Spanish. Excellent for classroom use.

A Birthday Basket for Tía by Pat Mora (Grades PreK–2)

Today is a special day: Tía Rosa's 90th birthday, and Cecilia wants to give T�a Rosa a very special present, one that would show her how much she loves her.

The Best of Scholastic Spanish: 15 Books (Grades PreK–3)

Set Includes:

Antártida	Así vamos a la escuela
Borreguita y el coyote	Clifford al rescate
¡A Contar Cheerios!	Daniel y los dinosaurios
Un día de nieve	Donde viven los monstruos
Feliz cumpleaños, Martin Luther King	La oruga muy hambrienta
¡Qué montón de tamales!	Se necesita todo un pueblo
Si le das una galletita a un ratón	Un sillón para mi mamá
La verdadera historia de los tres cerditos

Appropriate titles of equal value may be substituted if any of the listed titles are unavailable at shipping.

Look What Came From Mexico by Miles Harvey (Grades K–3)

Each book in this elementary-level series explores, in a very simple fashion, the foods, words, inventions, toys, games and sports, religion, music, and crafts that a specific country has contributed to the world.

English/Spanish Collection 2: 20 Books (Grades 1–3)

Set Includes:

Borreguita and the Coyote	Borreguita y el coyote
Changes, Changes	Cambios, Cambios
Corduroy	Corduroy
Curious George®	Jorge el curioso
First Thousand Words in English	First Thousand Words in Spanish
Henny Penny	Pollita chiquita
New Shoes for Silvia	Zapatos nuevos para Silvia
Rain Forest	El bosque tropical
School Bus	El autobús escolar
Too Many Tamales	¡Qué montón de tamales!

Appropriate titles of equal value may be substituted if any of the listed titles are unavailable at shipping.

Scholastic Recommends: Grades 4-8

Hispanic Treasury Collection: 10 Books (Grades K–3)

Set Includes:

Animorphs #3 El encuentro	Las aventuras del Capitán Calzoncillos
El diario de Pedro	Escalofrios #1 Bienvenidos a la Casa de la Muerte
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal	Leyendas americanas
Mi rincón en la montaña	Presidente de la clase
Cuentos con sazón	Tuck para siempre

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (Grades 4–8)

When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee from their home in Mexico to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants to which they were accustomed on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.

How Would You Survive as an Aztec? by Fiona MacDonald (Grades 4–6)

This title in the How Would You Survive? Series transports its reader back in time, and with a new identity, by giving detailed information in the aspects of life during the historical period of the Aztecs.

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Scholastic Recommends: Professional Books

29 Spanish Alphabet Mini-books: Easy-to-Make Reproducible Books That Promote Literacy by Mary Beth Spann (Grades PreK–1)

These adorable eight-page mini-books (one for each letter of the alphabet) are easy to make and fun to use. Just reproduce, fold, and snip! Emergent readers will love completing the pages as they practice handwriting, begin letter collections, identify pictures beginning with a specific letter, and personalize their very own word banks.

Perfect for fostering letter recognition in Spanish and awareness of letters and sounds in words.

Reading Success Mini-Books: Sight Words in Spanish: 20 Interactive Mini-Books
by Mary Beth Spann (Grades PreK–2)

Help new readers soar with this set of skill-building mini-books in Spanish. Each of these 20 simple, reproducible word/picture books teaches a group of key sight words about school, clothing, farm, weather, and more.
Includes write-on lines and matching games to make learning to read interactive and fun. Teacher instructions are in English; student mini-books are in Spanish.

15 Reproducible Spanish Write-and-Read Books: Instant Patterns for Easy Predictable Books Your Students Help Write!
by Veronica Robillard (Grades K–2)

Just photocopy these innovative book patterns, invite kids to fill in the blanks, and every student can create a colorful, personalized, predictable book in Spanish.

Multicultural Fables & Fairy Tales: Stories & Activities to Promote Literacy & Cultural Awareness
by Tara McCarthy (Grades 1–4)

Introduce students to other cultures with 24 classic tales from Japan, Ghana, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, China, and more. Each reproducible story includes information about its origin, plus teaching ideas and hands-on activities. Fully reproducible.

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