For Parents: ELD/SLA Resources

English Language Development (ELD) and Spanish Language Arts (SLA) resources for use during school closures.

ELD/SLA Resources

• PreWilbooks PreK-3rd Grade Spanish resources
• Conaliteg Digital: APP For Spanish books
• Breezy Special Ed
• K-Fun for Spanish resources: Elementary Spanish Resources for Learning at Home
• The Spanish Experiment: Spanish Children Stories
• Story Place Digital Story Books
• PBS: Practice Language through Play
• Rockalingua
• Bartolo
• MARS Spanish Science App with Books and Games by Spanish offered for free during Coronavirus Period

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Benchmark Universe Resources

Free Benchmark Universe eBook Libraries

Curated Collections for Families and Caregivers. English, Spanish, and Dual Language libraries featuring hundreds of captivating, content-rich titles! Includes an At-Home Family Guide for engagement ideas.

Benchmark Distance Learning Literacy Block Facebook Live Sessions

Live Sessions with Literacy Experts. Join us for daily Facebook Live Sessions with literacy experts Patty McGee, Adria Klein, Travis Crowder, and others. Join us for read-alouds, writing, word study, and more. Great for educators as well as families at home!

Trade Book Story Time with Wiley Blevins

Read-Aloud Time Celebrating the Joy of Reading. The benefits of read-alouds are enormous! Literacy expert Wiley Blevins takes children on a literary journey through animated reads featuring stories of underrepresented voices. Enjoy with families or as part of your virtual learning instruction.

Virtual Teaching and Learning Tips

Ideas and How-Tos for Using Benchmark Universe. Learn about all of the tools that are already included in Benchmark Universe to support virtual learning environments!

Benchmark Advance and Adelante Distance Learning Activities

Daily Activities to Keep Advancing. Each week, we’ll provide a series of meaningful learning tasks for each grade using Benchmark Advance/Adelante online resources. We’ll focus on reading, writing, phonics/word study, and reflection/extensions connected to the program’s instruction. Join our Facebook Group to share and learn with other teachers and to get exclusive notifications when new content is posted!

123 Andrés Letter Song Videos

Added for Benchmark Adelante. For the rest of the school year, enjoy brand-new letter song videos created by Latin Grammy Award winners 123 Andrés! You can assign these videos to students for engaging learning at home.

To find:

1. Log into Benchmark Universe and click on your Benchmark Adelante library.
2. Then, choose the 123 Andrés Songs and Videos from the drop-down menu (top left)

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Spanish Reading and Comprehension for Middle School and High School Level

• Super Simple Español - Canciones Infantiles Y Más
• Spanish Together YouTube Channel
• Spanish Books for Kids Online:
• Spanish Books for Kids Learning Language
• Spanish Stories Online

Santillana USA

E-magazines, Lesson Plans, and Activities Samplers for Elementary and Secondary.

Elementary

• "La abeja de más" - Sampler (E-magazine)
• "La abeja de más" - Lesson Plan and Activities Sampler (PDF)
• "Así nace un pato" - Sampler (E-magazine)
• "Así nace un pato" - Lesson Plan and Activities Sampler (PDF)"
• "Poesía eres tú" - Sampler (E-magazine)
• "Poesía eres tú" - Activities (E-magazine)
• "No soy floja" A+ Spanish Science Literacy Kits (E-magazine)
• "Viva la tortuga" A+ Spanish Science Literacy Kit (E-magazine)

Buenas Noches Series (Norma)

• "Cu Canguro" (E-magazine)
• "El perro que quiso ser lobo" (E-magazine)

Torre de Papel Series (Norma) E-magazines

Naranja

• "La tortuga sabia y el mono entrometido" (E-magazine)
• "Yo, el Gran Fercho y el ladrón" (E-magazine)

Roja

• "Clementina, el Amigo de la Semana" (E-magazine)
• "La tormenta" (E-magazine)

Azul

• "Amigo se escribe con H" (E-magazine)
• "Por culpa de una S" (E-magazine)

Amarilla

• "Cuentos de terror de mi tío" (E-magazine)
• "Veintitrés historias de un viajero" (E-magazine)

Secondary E-magazines

El Abecé Visual Series

• "El Abecé Visual de bosques, selvas, montañas y desiertos" (E-magazine)

• "El Abecé Visual de los inventos que cambiaron el mundo 1" (E-magazine)

Cara y Cruz Series (Norma)

• "Antología de poesía latinoamericana contemporánea" (E-magazine)
• "Bodas de sangre" (E-magazine)
• "Cuento hispanoamericano siglo XIX" (E-magazine)
• "El nuevo cuento latinoamericano" (E-magazine)

Leer en español Series

• "El sueño de Otto" (E-magazine)
• "La ciudad de los dioses" (E-magazine)
• "Marianela" (E-magazine)
• "Un príncipe para Tess" (E-magazine)
• "Cuanco Mack conoció a Mac" (E-magazine)
• "Soñar un crimen" (E-magazine)
• "El señor de Alfoz" (E-magazine)
• "El secreto de su nombre" (E-magazine)
• "El libro secreto de Daniel Torres" (E-magazine)
• "El oro de los sueños" (E-magazine)
• "Dos historias y un final" (E-magazine)
• "Don Quijote de la Mancha I" (E-magazine)
• "Don Quijote de la Mancha II" (E-magazine)

Sol y luna Series (Norma)

• "La Tierra de los Muertos" (E-magazine)
• "Los héroes y los dioses" (E-magazine)

Zona libre Series (Norma)

• "Solo tres segundos" (E-magazine)
• "Tony" (E-magazine)

ELD Free Phone Apps

• Improve English: Word Games
• Vocab Victor English Word Game

Miscellaneous Resources

• Online Free Spanish
• Chillola
• Literacy Center in Spanish
• Salsa Georgia
• CBeebies
• Panda Tree Spanish Resources for Students and Teachers
• 123Teach Me

This page was last updated on: March 24, 2020.