Spanish Leveled Books
Support Spanish skills for dual language or bilingual learners with a large collection of engaging, translated books at a variety of reading levels. Graduated levels of difficulty help emerging bilinguals build confidence while increasing their comprehension and fluency in the target language. Spanish Translated Leveled Books are listed at the same levels as their English counterparts to support students' biliteracy.
- Why Use Spanish Leveled Books?
- How to Use Spanish Leveled Books
- Spanish Leveled Book Formats
- Spanish Leveled Book Support Resources
- Spanish Books and Leveling
Related Information
Why Use Spanish Leveled Books?
Leveled books are key to any leveled reading program, and Spanish Leveled Books support instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, close reading of text, and more for students developing Spanish literacy skills.
Spanish Leveled Books promote biliteracy and content-area instruction with support resources to build emerging bilingual students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
A balanced collection of fiction and nonfiction Spanish texts also promotes thematic instruction and vocabulary development.
How to Use Spanish Leveled Books
Spanish Leveled Books can be used in any dual language, bilingual, or immersion program. Using leveled books addresses the wide range of reading abilities that exist within any grade level or age group. Students are placed in similar-ability groups and given developmentally appropriate books to read.
Pair English-Spanish books to promote biliteracy using thematic or content instruction.
Engage students with Authentic Spanish texts by reading about diverse, culturally relevant topics.
Use Spanish Leveled Book Support Resources, including worksheets, discussion cards, and comprehension quizzes to build students' comprehension and language skills, including vocabulary, in Spanish. For Authentic Spanish Leveleled Books, use the Lesson Plans to support instruction. For Spanish Translated Leveled Books, reference the English Lesson Plans for additional ideas and practice with strategies and skills.
ALL the resources that support a leveled book can be found on its home page.
Spanish Leveled Book Formats
Spanish Leveled Books come in an array of options to meet independent, small-group, and whole-class objectives.
Printable Books for use in class or to send home for practice can be printed in color, black and white, and as single-sided or double-sided.
Projectable Books integrate technology and reading curriculum. ALL books are available in this format for digital projectors and interactive whiteboards. Projectable Book Tips show educators various ways to meet literacy goals for fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and more.
Multilevel Books allow students who read at different levels to enjoy the same book. One option for using multilevel books is to group students according to skill level. However, it is critical to introduce comprehension skills, phonics, and word attack strategies to all students.
Pocketbooks fit in a pocket—the perfect size for students to take home for additional reading practice or to make notes or reinforce grammar skills.
Wordless books allow students to use imagination to tell their own story with a book's illustrations or support retelling of the original text at Levels aa-J. The Wordless Book Lesson provides suggested skills and strategies.
Leveled Book Support Resources
Each small group reading session takes about 15 to 25 minutes and emphasizes higher-order thinking skills while providing the opportunity for deeper understanding of the text.
Instruction begins with an introduction of the book and discussion to build background.
Students may be placed in groups based on similar literacy and language needs, and given books to read that target specific skills and strategies.
Discussion follows, and each student keeps the book to read repeatedly. Subsequent lessons at the lower levels usually use an entirely new book.
Spanish worksheets, discussion cards, and a comprehension quiz accompany Spanish Leveled Books. For Authentic Spanish Books, use the lesson plans to support instruction. The English lesson plan can provide ideas or support during instruction of the Spanish book.
Comprehension and Language Worksheets
Reading strategy and comprehension skill worksheets often include one graphic organizer to support students' understanding before, during, and after reading.
For Authentic Spanish Books, skill worksheets support important Spanish foundational, vocabulary, and grammar skills. Skill worksheets parallel English-language skill practice in Spanish when appropriate or provide original, language-specific practice based on Spanish grammar and mechanics, word structure and meaning, phonological awareness, phonics, or high-frequency words.
Up to four worksheets on comprehension and other literacy skills support each Spanish Leveled Book.
Quick Checks for Assessing Leveled Book Comprehension
Comprehension quizzes are a fast, easy way to assess how well students comprehend their reading and are great resources for text-dependent questions. A Comprehension Quiz accompanies every Spanish Leveled Book from Level A to Level Z2.
Multiple-choice questions encompass a range of cognitive rigor and depth of knowledge. Quizzes at Level C and above also include at least one extended response, or essay question, that requires students to answer in writing an open-ended question using sound reasoning. The questions encourage critical and inferential thinking and allow teachers to measure skills that are difficult to assess with multiple-choice questions.
Discussion Cards
Discussion cards promote critical thinking, collaboration, and discussion among small groups or entire classes of students. Many discussion questions focus on text-dependent questions.Each discussion card is tagged with the specific reading skill it targets. These include such skills as:
- Compare and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Make inferences/draw conclusions
- Analyze and evaluate
Spanish Books and Leveling
Reading A-Z's Authentic Spanish Leveled Books have been carefully written in accordance with standardized Leveling Criteria and quality checked with custom software.
Spanish Translated Leveled Books were created by reviewing the English and Spanish leveling criteria as part of the translation process. Some books might have Spanish levels that vary slightly from the English level. Because Learning A-Z's translations mirror the content and structure of the original text while reflecting the natural flow of the target language and incorporating developmentally appropriate sentence structure and vocabulary, a Spanish translation's final level will be accurate for students learning to read in Spanish.
Spanish Translated Leveled Book Lesson Ideas
Each small group reading session takes about 15 to 25 minutes and emphasizes higher-order thinking skills while providing the opportunity for deeper understanding of the text.
Students are placed in similar-ability groups and given developmentally appropriate books to read. The teacher monitors and guides each student's reading as needed.
Discussion follows, and each student keeps the book to read repeatedly. Subsequent lessons at the lower levels usually use an entirely new book.
The English lesson plan can provide ideas or support during instruction of the Spanish book.
