¡Todos a bordo! Cómo funcionan los trenes (All Aboard! How Trains Work)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about the culture, history, and distinctive features of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Osage, Omaha, and Crow tribes. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. ...

Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This Spanish math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction strategies relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading...

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...

As a land that’s constantly in flux, Earth sometimes reveals clues about the plants, animals, and other organisms that lived long ago. Fossils teach us much about what life was like millions of years ago, answering the questions of how Earth changed and maybe even why it changed. This essential Earth science topic is thoroughly explained through manageable text, fact boxes, informational charts and diagrams, and a glossary and index. Readers will become young Earth detectives by the time they’re through with this text!

English-Spanish bilingual edition teaches young children simple manners and kind behavior. When children are kind, courteous, and respectful, people enjoy being around them and reciprocate with the same behavior. Use this English-Spanish bilingual book to teach manners and help young children understand the importance of showing politeness, speaking kindly, using basic courtesies (“please,” “thank you,” “excuse me”), and respecting the feelings of others. A section at the back of the book, in both English and Spanish, provides questions for discussion, scenarios, and role-play...

Este libro extraordinario explora las similitudes entre los seres vivos que habitan nuestro planeta, las criaturas de los mitos y leyendas y los animales fantásticos de J.K. Rowling. El libro invita a toda la familia a descubrir los vínculos que existen entre las criaturas mágicas del universo de J.K. Rowling y los asombrosos animales que habitan la tierra, los mares y los cielos de nuestro planeta. A lo largo de sus páginas, didácticas y de gran belleza, se evoca la verdadera magia y majestuosidad de la naturaleza en todas sus formas. El interior está lleno de mapas antiguos, notas de...

Ésta es la historia de dos príncipes hermanos unidos por su lucha común contra el usurpador que provocó la muerte de su padre y robó su trono. Ambos irán distanciándose en una rivalidad por la pasión que despierta en ellos la misma fascinante mujer, y porque las propias gestas que les reportan poder y gloria también les hacen saborear el sutil veneno del orgullo, la ambición y la envidia... pues sólo uno puede ceñir la corona. Leeréis una epopeya fantástica pero pseudohistórica, en un mundo imaginario lleno de aventuras.