| Brief Description: | Beginner's Spanish Reader is a delightful book designed to make Spanish enjoyable for beginning students during their first few months of Spanish study. Through 27 lively, self-contained vignettes, students meet a colorful cast of characters. These culturally authentic, often amusing scenes, depict teenagers, their families, and friends living in a working-class district of a Spanish city. As they read through the book, students will also enjoy meeting such typical characters as an irate customer in a cafe and an ever grumbling portera.
To make reading a more manageable and enjoyable task for beginning students, Beginner's Spanish Reader features simplified, but authentic language. The stories are written exclusively in the present tense, vocabulary is of high frequency, and words are often repeated to encourage mastery. To aid comprehension, every scene is fully illustrated with charming, lighthearted drawing.
Each reading is also followed by one or more exercises, including reading comprehension, vocabulary reinforcement, and sentence completion. Tongue twisters and word puzzles are also included --- some for motivation, others just for fun. A detailed end vocabulary, including words used in the exercise instructions, makes it easy for students to work on their own to develop their Spanish-language reading skills.
Beginner's Spanish Reader is an ideal resource for beginning have an early and successful experience reading, writing, and Spanish. |
