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Explore our Annotated Teacher’s Edition to discover everything it offers for successfully implementing our communicative, proficiency-based Spanish program. See inside! © 2021-2025

Why an Annotated Teachers’ Edition (ATE)?

Our Annotated Teacher’s Edition (ATE) of REPORTEROS is expertly designed to support educators in delivering a proficiency-based language program with unmatched ease and efficiency. This edition seamlessly integrates with the Student Edition, enriched with an array of annotations that cater to various teaching styles, streamline class preparation, and enhance course management.

REPORTEROS’ ATE facilitates a straightforward and productive teaching experience and empowers educators to enhance their instructional methods and classroom management. By providing essential tools and resources right at your fingertips, this edition helps you focus on what truly matters—inspiring and educating your students.

A truly proficiencybased ATE!

More than 900 annotations!

Features of our ATE:

Comprehensive Annotations

Each page features annotations that save time and enhance activities with creative extensions. Whether you need quick tips, detailed proficiency guidance, or innovative activity ideas, these annotations are designed to make teaching effective and engaging.

Seamless Integration with Student Materials

The annotations complement the Student Edition, providing educators with a cohesive, structured teaching guide. This integration ensures a consistent, focused, and manageable learning experience.

Streamlined Class Preparation

With resources and annotations designed to reduce prep time, educators can focus more on engaging with their students rather than getting bogged down by extensive planning. The edition provides practical tools and insights that simplify the implementation of the curriculum.

Support for Various Teaching Styles

Understanding that each teacher is unique, our annotations are designed for flexibility to suit various teaching styles and classroom environments. This adaptability allows educators to tailor their methods to best meet their students’ needs while focusing on proficiency-based learning objectives.

Digital Platform

The Spanish Hub is a platform offering digital content and resources for students and teachers who work with REPORTEROS. 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 Spanish 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 Spanish 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 Spanish 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 n of the 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, THE WORKBOOK, AND THE ATE

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.

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Discover the structure of our Annotated Teachers’ Edition, crafted to enhance proficiency-based instruction. Fully aligned with ACTFL guidelines, this edition prioritizes communicative methods, providing educators with precise tools to boost language proficiency.

Learn how the ATE leverages the unique strengths of various teaching approaches to improve students’ learning outcomes.

UNIT AT A GLANCE

Each unit starts with a two-page overview that details the key components and goals. This includes:

- Learning Goals: Define clear outcomes to guide teaching.

- Can-Do Statements: Establish measurable performance benchmarks.

- Cultural Products and Practices: Provide relevant cultural contexts to enhance learning.

- Language Focus: Link linguistic elements to proficiency targets.

- Editable Templates: Offer customizable templates to adapt lessons to classroom needs.

UNIT RESOURCES Our Unit Resources charts concisely overview student and teacher resources, organized for easy access and effective classroom integration. This Annotated Teacher’s Edition feature aligns educational materials with unit goals, supporting dynamic and proficiency-based learning.

Student’s Resources

Provides comprehensive materials to enhance language proficiency and student engagement:

- Audio and Video Files: Multimedia content that boosts comprehension and retention.

- Workbooks and Worksheets: Activities to solidify learning across topics.

- Self-check Quizzes: Enables independent assessment of understanding.

Teacher’s Resources

Teacher’s Resources: Provides tools to aid teaching, assess progress, and expand learning:

- Differentiation Worksheets: Tailored to meet varied student needs.

- Heritage Worksheets: Focus on cultural contexts and connections.

- Assessment Rubrics: Help effectively evaluate student projects and activities.

UNIT INTRODUCTION

Unit Goals

Introduces the unit’s overarching goals and essential questions, providing teachers with a clear framework for what students should achieve and the estimated time required to meet these objectives.

Culture Note

Delivers additional cultural insights related to the video or country featured, enriching student understanding and offering a suggested time frame for exploring within the lesson.

Boost Your Teaching

Provides a range of dynamic teaching strategies, from gamification and collaborative learning to integrating remote learning options. It helps diversify instruction methods and engage students more deeply with quick integration tips.

LESSON INTRODUCTION

Lesson Goals

Outlines the specific objectives of the lesson, including the mini-project. This box provides a clear framework for the lesson’s goals, detailing the students’ focus areas and expected outcomes.

Authentic Resources

Offers deeper cultural insights related to the authentic document used in the lesson. This box enhances understanding by connecting the document’s content with its cultural significance, adding depth to the learning material.

Objectives

Clearly states the objectives of the activity, aligning with ACTFL standards and specific cultural objectives, including the time expected to complete the activity.

Step-by-step guide on effectively introducing and conducting the activity, from warming up the class to the actual teaching process, along with a complete time estimate, and ideas for extension activities.

Differentation Instruction

Offers strategies for challenging activities, accommodations, and tailored approaches for heritage learners, ensuring effective support for diverse educational needs.

Cultura

Designed to deepen the exploration of cultural elements introduced on this page. This box encourages a richer understanding of the cultural context, engaging students with more profound insights into the lesson’s cultural themes.

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LESSON CORE

Modes of Communication

In the Annotated Teacher’s Edition, each activity box specifies the mode of communication it targets—interpretive, interpersonal, or presentational. This feature helps teachers efficiently align activities with specific language learning goals, ensuring a focused and effective development of students’ communicative competence.

Focus on Structures & Grammar Presentation

These annotations enhance our program’s teaching flexibility. It supports the application of grammatical structures within engaging communication scenarios, allowing educators to adapt lessons to various teaching styles and classroom needs.

For educators who prefer a more structured approach, our program provides detailed grammar explanations at the end of each lesson, followed by practice activities. The workbook complements this with a range of exercises specifically designed to reinforce these concepts, ensuring comprehensive support and solidifying students’ understanding through active engagement.

SOMOS REPORTEROS

Objectives

Outlines the linguistic, cultural, and ACTFL standards objectives of the “Somos Reporters” section. It is designed to promote connections and enhance cultural understanding.

Cultural Note

Provides detailed cultural insights connected to the content covered in the reporteros/as’ article.

Formative Assessment

Offers targeted, practical tools and methods for ongoing assessment and immediate feedback within each lesson.time estimate, and ideas for extension activities.

Workbook

Refer to the workbook pages that cover this grammar and vocabulary for additional practice or homework assignments.

¡Eres reportero/a! Supports teachers by providing strategies to guide students in completing these tasks effectively.

MI GRAMÁTICA

These annotations offer a flexible path for teachers on the grammar pages. It allows them to introduce grammar concepts directly from these pages or first in the lesson’s context and then use them for reinforcement. It includes step-by-step explanations, teaching strategies, language comparisons, and formative assessment ideas, equipping educators with diverse methods to effectively teach and reinforce grammatical concepts.

Workbook

Reference the Communication activities in the Workbook, which allow students to practice the grammar they studied in a communicative context This approach makes the learning process more performance—and proficiency-based.

MI VOCABULARIO

For the vocabulary pages, we provide a list for each vocabulary section of the unit, including read-aloud options. This allows teachers who prefer to start with vocabulary lists to do so before moving on to the lesson activities. Throughout the lesson, these pages are referenced, offering flexibility in teaching approaches. Additionally, there are notes with strategies for learning the words and ideas for further practice.

Answers

In the ATE, the answers to all the activities are highlighted in blue, making it easy for teachers to reference and provide immediate feedback.

Heritage Learners

We provide enrichment words and activities tailored for heritage learners to enhance their language skills further.

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SONIDOS Y LETRAS | MINIPROYECTO

These annotations help implement and explain the concepts with practical ideas for language comparisons and formative assessment.

PROYECTO FINAL

Offers a concise guide for teachers to facilitate the final project, outlining language objectives, alignment with unit goals and backward design principles, suggested duration, and required materials. It includes steps for introducing and executing the project, and guidelines for student presentations, promoting smooth implementation and effective learning outcomes. Additionally, this project helps students develop key 21st-century skills.

This annotaton provides teachers with a streamlined guide for executing miniprojects, detailing objectives, timelines, materials, and step-by-step instructions for introduction, execution, and student presentations.

Summative Assessment – Prueba

This box provides all materials needed for the “Prueba de la Lección,” including the assessment, rubric, and answer key, with a suggested duration. It ensures a structured and efficient evaluation aligned with learning objectives and proficiency standards.

Formative Assessment

References SelfAssessment and Peer Assessment Rubrics, enabling students to identify mastered areas and improvement needs, prepare for future mini-projects, understand assessment criteria, and maintain attentiveness during peer presentations.

Summative Assessment – Rubric

The assessment rubric, aligned with ACTFL performance descriptors and proficiency-based standards, evaluates students’ proficiency levels in the skills involved in this miniproject. This tool provides a clear framework for assessing overall performance, ensuring students meet the established learning objectives and standards.

¡Eres reportero/a! Supports teachers by providing strategies to guide students in completing these tasks effectively.

PREPARO LA EVALUACIÓN IPA

The “Preparo la Evaluación IPA” section prepares students for the unit’s final IPA exam and other assessments by offering similar tasks, strategies, and references to grammar and vocabulary.

This annotation outlines all the objectives and content that students will practice across the three modes of communication.

Formative and Summative Assessment

The assessment rubric, which aligns with ACTFL performance descriptors and proficiency-based standards, measures students’ proficiency levels in the skills practiced in these activities. Additionally, we provide suggestions for formative assessments.

NUESTRAS CULTURAS

Summative Assessment – Evaluación IPA

These annotations provide strategies to help students successfully complete the activities.

For reinforcement or homework, this includes a reference to the culture quiz, available in both the print workbook and digitally, to review the unit’s cultural content.

This includes a reference to “My Progress,” a self-assessment tool for students to track their performance and identify opportunities for further practice.

This annotation offers detailed instructions for administering the final IPA exam, which can be found on The Spanish Hub. It includes information on all necessary resources and their specific locations.

Authentic Recources

The interpretive activities are based on authentic resources, and we provide explanations of the cultural context in these boxes where necessary.

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Guide

SESSIONS

This Pacing Guide is simply a suggestion—it shows how many sessions and weeks would need to be dedicated to each unit in order to

90-MINUTE CLASS SESSIONS

Lesson 1 introduction

Lesson 1, core instruction

Lesson 1, core instruction

Lesson 1,

Somos reporteros

This Pacing Guide is simply a suggestion—it shows how many sessions and weeks would need to be dedicated to each unit in order to complete all of the proposed activities and projects.

(45 minutes)

(45 minutes)

(90 minutes)

(90 minutes)

(45 minutes)

(45 minutes) Mi gramática, Part 1

, Part 2

(45 minutes)

(45 minutes) Mi gramática, Part 3

Mi vocabulario, Part 1

Mi vocabulario, Part 2

Miniproyecto

(Activity 3)

(45 minutes)

(Activity 4) 1/2 (45 minutes)

(Activity 5) 1/2 (45 minutes)

(90 minutes) Lesson 2

Somos reporteros

Mi gramática, point 1

Mi gramática, point 2

Mi gramática, point 3

Mi vocabulario, Part 1

Mi vocabulario, Part 2

(Activity 1)

(45 minutes)

(90 minutes)

(45 minutes)

(45 minutes)

(Activity 2) 1/2 (45 minutes)

(Activity 3) 1/2 (45 minutes)

(Activity 4)

(Activity 5)

(45 minutes)

(45 minutes) Miniproyecto

(90 minutes)

(90 minutes) Preparo la evaluación

(90 minutes)

Credits

All images and texts are protected and licensed for REPORTEROS.