Ebooks
Now, your learners can understand long-form authentic texts.
The Musicuentos ebooks are the best resource available to help learners navigate authentic texts. Every guide includes multi-modal
- vocabulary,
- comprehension, and
- cultural exploration activities.
Your learners will come away inspired and empowered to continue with the key activity that will guide them down the proficiency path: consuming authentic language.
Thank you for creating these reading guides; I would have never had my students reading them otherwise. They seem quite confident reading Ciudad; however, I would not have had the time to break down the novel…and with such finesse.
– Jana
I welcome purchase orders emailed to secottrell@musicuentos.com. Be sure to include the email address of the teacher who should receive the file(s).
Esperanza renace: the Ebook Reader’s Guide
In Esperanza renace, intermediate low through heritage learners can travel with Esperanza in a riches-to-rags story of immigration, family, and hope.
After Esperanza’s wealthy father dies, she and her mother must flee her tyrannical uncles and start life anew, as agricultural workers in Depression-era California. Will she rise above the ashes of her princess-style former life? Will sickness, strife, and hard labor extinguish all hope? Will she ever see her grandmother again?
The guide is 77 illustrated pages of vocabulary-building activities, and proficiency-focused discussion, and critical thinking and comprehension questions to accompany the 13 chapters +introduction of the middle-grades novel Esperanza renace. Includes a glossary of all vocabulary and an answer key.
The regular purchase price of $39.95 includes a license for you to reproduce or distribute the digital ebook for your students for as long as you teach. Respect copyright law.
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Cajas de cartón: a chapter-by-chapter guide to the memoir by Francisco Jiménez
In this second Musicuentos ebook guide to an authentic novel, intermediate low through heritage learners can explore the poignant story of Francisco, who immigrated illegally to the United States with his family when he was very young. Follow his difficult journey growing up as a migrant child laborer in the agriculture industry of 1950’s California.
The guide is 59 illustrated pages of comprehension and critical thinking questions, vocabulary-building activities, and proficiency-focused suggestions to accompany the 12 chapters of the memoir Cajas de cartón. Includes a glossary of all vocabulary.
The regular purchase price of $29.95 includes a license for you to reproduce or distribute the digital ebook for your students for as long as you teach. Respect copyright law.
If you’re only interested in the guide for chapter 9, the short story of the same name “Cajas de cartón,” you can purchase that on the resource page for $6.95.
For a great description of how Allison’s experience teaching this book changed between the plain question lists and the elegant ebook guide, see her posts Planning for Cajas de cartón and Literature Conversation Circles.
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La ciudad de las bestias: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide to the Novel by Isabel Allende
Simply the best, most in-depth product available to help advanced learners navigate an authentic Spanish novel.
La ciudad de las bestias is an acclaimed novel by Isabel Allende. Alex, an American teenager, reluctantly accompanies his grandmother as part of an expedition to the Amazon in search of the mythical Bestia.
The novel and the guide introduce students to advanced themes such as global challenges. Students think about critical questions like how to care for the environment, what is civilization, and why and how we should protect indigenous peoples.
Each illustrated “chapter” in this 79-page reader’s guide includes vocabulary, comprehension and critical thinking questions, and vocabulary- and proficiency-building activities. Includes a dictionary of all vocabulary at the end. Perfect for advanced, AP, IB, heritage, and post-secondary Spanish classes.
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