Experience The Power of the Pair™ with Despegando hacia la lectura™! Here are just a few of the reasons Despegando hacia la lectura™ should be your first choice for small group instruction: Despegando hacia la lectura™ is matched title-for-title by its sister program, Flying Start to Literacy™, ensuring complete equity for your dual-language instruction. Despegando hacia la lectura™ text pairs work together as paired texts are meant to work—building knowledge around the same big idea— resulting in a greater understanding of each topic. Despegando hacia la lectura™ pairs informational texts with narrative texts, laying the groundwork early for success in the upper grades. Despegando hacia la lectura™ delivers a variety of text types, requiring students to learn a range of reading strategies while increasing the authenticity of their writing. Despegando hacia la lectura™ books are never written to a template, and the strength of the authorship shines through in every title. Despegando hacia la lectura™ places emphasis on high-frequency words and academic vocabulary (each pair introduces and/or reinforces the same set of words) to ensure your students are encountering vocabulary in different sentence structures and contexts. Despegando hacia la lectura™ offers unmatched teaching support, with a laminated lesson plan for every pair, plus extensive other tools— including a Running Record for every pair—available at no cost online. Despegando hacia la lectura™ provides National Learning Standards on every lesson plan card, assuring your teaching is tied to outcomes. Despegando hacia la lectura™ measures readability for every title, providing you with reliable guided reading and EDL levels. Despegando hacia la lectura™ boxed classroom sets include TakeHome Books, providing avenues for parental involvement and an extension of small group learning. Despegando hacia la lectura™ lesson plans provide all instructions from the teacher to the student in Spanish. Despegando hacia la lectura™ is manufactured to the highest specifications; the paper, binding, and lamination will hold up through repeated use. Despegando hacia la lectura™ is teacher-developed and field-tested with real students prior to publication. Successfully launch your students on their path to college and career readiness by requesting your free sample below!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Intro Packs Looking for exceptional Spanish resources at a price that fits your classroom budget? Discover the difference Despegando hacia la lectura™ can make in your classroom with these economical Intro-Packs. Intro-Packs offer the same rich experience of the complete Despegando hacia la lectura™ program, but at a price that meets your budget. For more information and pricing for each stage, download our handy reference sheet.
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ New text sets for Advanced Fluent stages! Invigorate small-group Spanish instruction with these new text sets! Despegando hacia la lectura™ has expanded its collection of Advanced Fluent reading material with new Paired Texts with Perspectivas for Grades 4 & 5 (Levels Q–V). Despegando hacia la lectura™ can be fully implemented as a stand-alone early literacy program or combined with its English language counterpart — the award-winning Flying Start to Literacy™ — for rigorous dual-literacy instruction. Click the button below to receive your sample!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Nurture your students across nine developmental reading stages (Early Emergent through Advanced Fluent) with the innovative use of thoughtfully linked pairs of Spanish texts found in Despegando hacia la lectura™. Here are just a few of the reasons award-winning Despegando hacia la lectura™ should be your first choice for small group instruction: The lesson plans throughout the Despegando hacia la lectura™ program include a specific focus on linking children’s oral language literacy learning. Lesson plans encourage children to hear words, use them, manipulate them semantically, write and play with words in context. Despegando hacia la lectura™ has 9 stages and 22 levels of books. The books encourage students to attend to the text and build reading strategies. Despegando’s paired texts reinforce the same high-frequency and academic vocabulary in different contexts. High-frequency words are gradually and systemically introduced and reused. Key vocabulary is introduced in the early stages in photographic “Vocabulary Starters” presented in a fold-out form for easy reference. Key vocabulary is constantly being revisited. Despegando hacia la lectura™ offers systematic and explicit instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness. A developmental schema of phonemic awareness and phonics occurs in paired books to provide a context for using phonology as one aspect of the reading process. Learning to read informational texts and engaging in stories supports children to read for different purposes. The conceptual load of the books is carefully developed in the paired books. Development of comprehension is a focus of the lesson plans. Ongoing assessment forms part of the Despegando hacia la lectura™ teaching sequence. Successfully launch your students on their path to college and career readiness by requesting your free sample below!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Perspectivas You already know that Despegando hacia la lectura™ uses a paired-text approach in which the narrative and informational halves of the pair work together to reinforce a strong, central idea. But are you familiar with Perspectivas? Now available with all pairs from Levels N through V, Perspectivas are collections of short Spanish texts that expand on the ideas presented in each pair. These high-interest, point-of-view reading selections provide the necessary foundation for students’ own persuasive writing, which is encouraged through the templates included in each volume. Click below to see Perspectivas for yourself!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Vocabulary Starters Despegando hacia la lectura™ provides exceptional support for early language development with Vocabulary Starters at Levels A and B. These invaluable resources introduce the written form of the key vocabulary found in each pair of texts through unambiguous, labeled photographs. Suggestions for introducing and reusing vocabulary words are included on the reverse side of each one. To request your FREE Level A or Level B Sampler — which includes a set of Paired Texts, Lesson Plan, and their Vocabulary Starter — go to:
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Lesson Plans Despegando hacia la lectura™ offers best instructional practice through the convenient Lesson Plans included in the program. One lesson plan is provided for each connected pair of books. Our laminated, six-page lesson plans are crafted for exceptional practical and systematic instruction. They include Before, During, and After Reading suggestions for each book, plus formative assessment and a synthesizing activity focusing on the key concept of the paired texts. Lesson Plans can be split into four 30-minute instructional sessions and one review session. Click the link below to see one for yourself!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ available digitally on Okapi Digital Literacy™ Access the complete Despegando hacia la lectura™ program from any device at any time, offering you an invaluable tool for remote or blended, dual-language instruction. With Okapi Digital Literacy™, educators can access (and share with students) all 340 Despegando hacia la lectura™ paired books, downloadable lesson plans, Perspectivas, and vocabulary starters. Click the button below to visit our demo site and view over 100 sample books and lesson plans from all four of Okapi’s flagship programs.
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Teacher Support Have you been taking advantage of the wealth of online Teaching Support available for Despegando hacia la lectura™? If you are using Despegando hacia la lectura™ in your classroom, be sure to visit the Despegando hacia la lectura™ website for countless free and easyto-use teacher resources! Access pacing guides, scope and sequence charts, phonics and phonemic awareness overviews, assessment checklists, records of reading behavior, and more! Click the button to go there now!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™ Running Records Assess your students’ reading level, fluency, and comprehension with free, running records available for use with Despegando hacia la lectura™! Visit the Despegando hacia la lectura™ Teacher Support website for free, downloadable Records of Reading Behavior. One running record is provided for each pair of titles, offering you an even mix of narrative and informational text assessments. Click the button below!
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Great News for Texas Educators! TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) Lesson Plans are now available online! Enjoy easy access to this large collection of lesson plans which includes 1 TEKS lesson plan for every set of paired texts and stand-alone titles from Okapi’s four flagship programs: Flying Start to Literacy™ Despegando hacia la lectura™ WorldWise: Content-Based Learning™ ExploraMundos™ To access TEKS Lesson Plans in English and Spanish from myokapi.com: • Visit the myokapi.com Home Page • In the sidebar on the right-hand side, click the TEKS Lesson Plans button • If you are already a registered user, use your login information to log in. If you are a new user, click create an account on the right. Access is completely free following your registration. Click the button below to go there now!
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Un enfoque de lectura compartida™ Reading Pen Save now on the game-changing Reading Pen! The Un enfoque de lectura compartida™ Reading Pen is preloaded with recordings of all 18 of our big book titles so that children can extend the shared reading experience by listening and following along independently. Order by December 31st, 2021, and receive two additional reading pens FREE with each topic set! Click the button below to see the Reading Pen in action!
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Despegando hacia la lectura™: Un enfoque de lectura Launch your young readers into literacy with shared reading! Despegando hacia la lectura’s Un enfoque de lectura compartida is an award-winning collection of stories, rhymes, and books that introduce young readers to informational texts. Your students will: • enjoy reading together and revisiting familiar books again and again • begin to recognize and read high-frequency words • build knowledge of key vocabulary • understand conventions of print Click below for more details!
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