Trabajadores de mi ciudad (Workers in My City)

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...

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...

Wind Power: A waving flag, blowing leaves, a kite soaring through the skyall are moved by wind power. Wind is also our fast-growing source of energy. Find out how wind forms and the different ways we may use it in the future.

Los refranes son sentencias cortas que nos acompañan a lo largo de nuestra vida. Los oímos continuamente en una conversación casual, una exposición formal, un consejo fraterno o un reproche hostil. Breves pero significativos, muchas veces resuelven situaciones confusas o absurdas. Por eso, son considerados como proverbios indiscutibles que, a pesar de desconocer su origen, se repiten una y otra vez, sin cuestionar su contenido o su forma. La sabiduría popular y los refranes siempre han ido de la mano. Myriam Rodríguez y Javier Correa, autores del libro, utilizan los refranes como excusa ...

If asked to define a forest, readers might say, "It has a lot of trees." But many places have a lot of trees. So, what makes a forest a forest? Readers discover that a forest is unlike any other biome on Earth. And a temperate forest is even more specific. Readers learn the many life cycles found within a forest and how the energy pyramid explains the numbers of forest plants and animals. In addition, readers learn by examining how forces usually considered destructive work to help forests survive. 32pp.

Entre los fenómenos naturales que el hombre ha sabido convertir en símbolos, pocos son tan ricos en significados como el de la sombra. Símbolo del mal y de la muerte, del alma y del espíritu, de lo pasajero y lo imperfecto... la sombra ha proporcionado a la literatura algunas de sus invenciones más memorables, seleccionadas para este volumen. En las fábulas de Esopo, la sombra de un burro sirve para mostrarnos hasta dónde puede llegar la estupidez humana, dejando una sonrisa amarga en el lector. «El milagro de Teófilo» y la leyenda «El hombre que perdió su sombra» narran las...