For decades, the international education community has focused on schools as the primary vehicle of learning. However, learning assessments in dozens of developing nations show that repeated attempts to affect student learning in schools have largely failed. Because students with perfect attendance in low-resource settings spend less than 25…

The new editions of basal readers differ in significant ways from their predecessors: they are longer, more attractive, linguistically sounder, use larger vocabularies. (JH)

This teacher's guide is designed for use with "La Ciudad" and "Otros Amigos, Otras Culturas," two textbooks in the second part of the Spanish language series of readers. It contains lesson plans to enable the teacher to make better use of the texts and includes illustrations taken from each of the books themselves. (SK)

This teacher's guide is designed for use with the following textbooks in the Spanish language reading series: "Mira,""Mira y Lee,""Lee y Trabaja," and "Trabaja y Aprende." It contains lesson plans for each text and illustrations from the books themselves. (SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 052. (Author/SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 051. (Author/SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 050. (Author/SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 049. (Author/SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 048. (Author/SK)

This consumable, graded workbook can be used for exercises, tests, and individualized learning. Each level contains 30 units divided into four groups of exercises: reading analysis, grammar, composition, and spelling. Ten general tests are also included. For the accompanying reader, see FL 004 047. (Author/SK)

This textbook, the first in a series of six, is designed to give the beginning student practice in reading Spanish as adapted to Mexican linguistics. It makes use of comic strips with few words and paragraphs describing pictures. Subjects included in the 37 sections include the park, the zoo, a birthday celebration, dreams, and school. (Author/SK)

This textbook, the second in a series of six, is designed to give the beginning student practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. Subjects include animals, children's games, a pirate's flag, and astronauts. (SK)

This textbook, the third in a series of six, is designed to give the intermediate elementary school student continued practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. The book introduces simple literary excerpts, short poems, and narratives from…

This textbook, the fourth in a series of six, is designed to give the intermediate elementary school student continued practice in reading Spanish. It contains some 30 sections with passages of increasing degrees of difficulty. Colored illustrations are included. In this volume, Quetzalcoatl, god of the winds, conducts a group of children to…