Supplemental reader for 3rd, 4th, or 5th semester Spanish courses.
Breves cuentos hispanos offers elementary/intermediate Spanish students enjoyable, short, challenging stories. Each story includes a series of varied activities including grammar review, vocabulary development, comprehension, discussion, and opinion questions. The fourth edition of this successful reader contains 8 new stories, and twelve in all.
- An introduction entitled "How to Read in a Foreign Language." Provides students with strategies and hints for a successful foreign language reading experience.
- Provides students with strategies and hints for a successful foreign language reading experience.
- Brief author biographies. Provides students with historical and cultural context for each story, and offers readers the opportunity to learn about key Hispanic writers.
- Provides students with historical and cultural context for each story, and offers readers the opportunity to learn about key Hispanic writers.
- Process-approach to reading helps students in their comprehension of the reading selections
- The pre-reading section Temas de orientación prepares students for the upcoming reading
- The post-reading section Preguntas offers comprehension questions and the Discusión y opiniones post-reading section allows students to share their experiences and opinions regarding each story and its cultural content.
- The reading process is clearly divided in three steps: Pre-reading activities, reading, and post-reading exercises.
- Pre-reading and post-reading activities will enhance the student’s reading comprehension.
- Eight new stories including selections by Horacio Quiroga, Ramón Luis Acevedo, Rosa Montero, Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Carmen Laforet and Reinaldo Arenas have been added to this edition.
- The selected readings will help the instructor to get the students more involved and interested.
- An introduction entitled "How to Read in a Foreign Language." Provides students with strategies and hints for a successful foreign language reading experience.
- Provides students with strategies and hints for a successful foreign language reading experience.
- Brief author biographies. Provides students with historical and cultural context for each story, and offers readers the opportunity to learn about key Hispanic writers.
- Provides students with historical and cultural context for each story, and offers readers the opportunity to learn about key Hispanic writers.
- Process-approach to reading helps students in their comprehension of the reading selections
- The pre-reading section Temas de orientación prepares students for the upcoming reading
- The post-reading section Preguntas offers comprehension questions and the Discusión y opiniones post-reading section allows students to share their experiences and opinions regarding each story and its cultural content.
- The reading process is clearly divided in three steps: Pre-reading activities, reading, and post-reading exercises.
- Pre-reading and post-reading activities will enhance the student’s reading comprehension.
- Eight new stories including selections by Horacio Quiroga, Ramón Luis Acevedo, Rosa Montero, Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Carmen Laforet and Reinaldo Arenas have been added to this edition.
- The selected readings will help the instructor to get the students more involved and interested.
