Nine pages of illustrated story, Spanish leading with English support underneath, plus a page of bilingual sentence frames for talking about it afterward.
La mochila misteriosa · The Mystery Backpack, the full illustrated story · Prediction and detective stops built into the reading · Eighteen reader talk frames in six categories, in both languages · Key vocabulary with cognates your reader will spot on their own
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The story teaches the skill
Sofía finds an unclaimed backpack in the school library and follows a trail of clues to work out where it came from. While she predicts, questions, and hunts for evidence, your reader is doing exactly the same thing. The plot and the lesson are the same act, which is why children who normally resist Spanish practice will finish this one.
Read the Spanish first and let the pictures carry the meaning. The English is there for when they get stuck, not for where they begin.
Written by a classroom teacher
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