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An exciting, truly communicative Spanish program that follows a project-based, content-focused approach

KLETT WORLD LANGUAGES

LANGUAGE SPECIALISTS

KLETT WORLD LANGUAGES is a publishing house specializing in print and digital instructional materials for learning and teaching world languages.

Our mission is to help students become global citizens by developing their intercultural and critical thinking skills through language learning. We aim to help students learn and use language in real-life situations by creating engaging and meaningful content that sparks their curiosity and motivates them to learn.

We strongly believe that teachers play a key role in language learning, and part of our mission is to support them and to provide ample opportunity for professional development.

THESE ARE OUR VALUES

Having them is not enough. We live by them.

1 COMMITMENT

Because everyone on the core KWL team has a background in education and works closely with educators and students, our commitment goes far beyond our daily work. We understand the needs of educators and students and we are passionate about looking for solutions and tools to help them succeed.

3 AFFORDABILITY

We are committed to providing high-quality print and digital content at affordable prices to all who want to learn a language. We guarantee lower prices for high-quality content and simple, easy-to-use technology.

5 COMMUNICATION

We view languages as tools for communication and action. To learn a language and build authentic communicative competency, students need a realistic context, a true need to communicate, a focus on meaning, and the right linguistic resources. That is what we provide in our educational materials.

2 INNOVATION

Our educational materials focus on the most current pedagogical methodology. They follow the ACTFL Guidelines for Proficiency, include Can-Do statements, and address the 5 Cs. Our digital resources provide original and authentic content via a simple and easy-to-use platform.

4 EDUCATOR SUPPORT

We see educators as our partners, and the core of our mission is to support them by providing professional development opportunities, highquality documents and activities, and instructor resources in an easily accessible format.

6 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Our content is created to help students use language to communicate and interact with other communities and cultures both in the United States and abroad. Our books present a respectful, modern, and open-minded perspective of our world and its cultures that allows students to dismantle stereotypes and to cultivate an awareness of global concerns.

Why MAPAS?

MAPAS is a four-level program designed for North American high school students learning Spanish at the introductory level. Its innovative design follows a project-based and contentfocused approach. Its main goal is for students to build knowledge through explorative and expansive learning. The Spanish classroom becomes a space where students develop 21st-century skills, such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.

MAPAS is...

A student-centered, 21st century, comprehensive language and culture program

A communicative program where real world language and projects take center stage

A fun, meaningful, and motivating approach to the Spanish language

A gateway to culture and language throught authentic materials

An invaluable tool for differentiation and accessibility

A program striving to make learning engaging, relevant, and impactful

ACTFL World Readiness Standards and a proficiency-based aproach lie at the heart of MAPAS:

Learning objectives in the form of Can-Do Statements leading to the completion of final projects

Essential questions that are grounded in each unit and foster critical thinking skills

The three modes of communication —interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational— are integrated into the lesson sequences

A

communicative approach

to grammar

where students first focus on meaning, then on structures

Standards-based activities that integrate the 5 Cs throughout each unit

Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) that incorporate the three modes of communication

MAPAS offers four levels, progressing from Novice Low to Advanced Low proficiency levels.

Series’ components include:

• Student Edition

• Workbook

• Annotated Teacher's Edition

• Digital versions on

Keep reading to learn more about each of the components!

The KWL Hub is a platform offering digital content and resources for students and teachers who work with MAPAS. It is designed with a clear purpose in mind: to improve teaching and learning experiences in middle school and high school environments with engaging content and helpful, user-friendly tools.

The KWL Hub is easy, flexible, and intuitive for all users. It includes a variety of resources, as well as robust functionalities that allow teachers to personalize the textbooks, assign homework, correct students’ work, offer feedback, create their own content, track the progress of each student, etc.

The KWL Hub is available as a website and as an app.

Compatible with:

- Smartphones and tablets: iOS and Android.

- Computers: Windows, Mac, Chrome OS and Linux.

INTERACTIVE VERSIONS

OF THE STUDENT EDITION AND THE WORKBOOK

Interactive, browser-friendly versions with sizeadaptable pages that allow for a full digital learning experience. Students can write directly in the writing fields, record themselves, self-correct, re-do activities, attach files and send all of their work to the teacher.

The KWL Hub features the following components and resources:

• Interactive version of the Student Edition

• Interactive version of the Workbook

• eBook version of the Student Edition

• eBook version of the Workbook

• eBook version of the Annotated Teacher's Edition

• Assessment Program

• Grammar tutorials (videos)

• Pronunciation tutorials (videos)

• Scripts for all audio files

• Scripts and subtitles in both English and Spanish for all videos

• Closed captioning on all videos for students with hearing impairments

• Audio recordings of all readings for students with visual impairments

• Worksheets for heritage learners

• Differentiation worksheets

• Assessment, self and peer assessment rubrics

• Interactive grammar and vocabulary quizzes and many more!

EBOOK VERSIONS OF THE STUDENT EDITION AND THE WORKBOOK

eBook versions that allow teachers and students to browse through all the pages and grant them access to all of the video and audio files.

Scope & Sequence

1 Personas

You will learn how to introduce yourself and write a text or piece of writing for an online platform.

2 Identidades

You will learn how to talk about noteworthy personalities in the Spanish-speaking world.

` Introduce yourself and others

` Exchange personal information (I)

` Talk about your Spanish class

` Interview: Hola, soy Marcela (Mexico)

` Exchange personal information (II)

` Ask and answer questions

` Express likes and dislikes using me gusta/n, te gusta/n

3 Mi entorno

You will decide what you want to do in your Spanish class and will apply to a study-abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country.

` Express degree using muy, un poco (de)…

` Talk about abilities and knowledge

` Exchange personal information (III) (telephone, email, address…)

` Express intentions and wishes

` Videoblog: Nuestros artistas favoritos (Guatemala)

` Activities to learn a language

` Interesting topics in a Spanish course

` Personal information

` Nationalities and professions

` Numbers 1 to 500

` Adjectives to describe personality

` Short film: Espronceda (Spain)

` Languages

` Leisure activities

` The family

` The verbs saber and conocer

LANGUAGE STRUCTURES SOUNDS

ORAL & WRITTEN TEXTS

CULTURE PROJECTS

` Subject pronouns (I)

` The present tense of regular verbs (I)

` The verbs ser and llamarse

` Nouns: gender and number

` Definite articles

` Alphabet and sounds

` Present tense of regular verbs (II) and the irregular verbs ser, ir, tener, hacer

` Indefinite articles

` Adjectives: gender and number

` Subject pronouns (II)

` Communication resources in the Spanish classroom

` Basic etiquette

` How to create a text

` Question words (I) questions

Basic connectors: y (e), pero, por eso, también

` Studying vocabulary

` Stem-changing verbs: e - ie, o - ue, u - ue, e - i

` Irregular verbs in the present: irregular yo forms, verbs with more than one irregularity

` Giving a reason: porque, para, por

` Possessive adjectives

` Rules of accentuation ` Vowels

` Writing emails

` The preposition de

` Linguistic landscape (USA)

` Artistic heritage of the Spanishspeaking community in the United States

` Group: introduce yourselves to the class

` Individual: introduce yourself in writing on an online platform

` Celebrities in the Spanish-speaking world

` Cinema and identity in Mexico

` Portraits and selfportraits. David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexico), Coqui Calderón (Panama), and Dr. Atl (Mexico)

` Group: research and present basic information about the most influential Latinos in the US

` Individual: make an infographic about five influential people in the Spanish-speaking world

` The first academy of an indigenous language: guarani (Paraguay)

` Fernando Iwasaki. Las palabras primas (Peru)

` Group: interview classmates and decide what you want to do in your Spanish class

` Individual: apply to a study-abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country