Teach Spanish through literacy
Your students can improve their language proficiency and learn about culture through Mira Canion’s easy-to-read stories!
Receive full curricular support while making classroom learning fun for learning Spanish and French!
Learning through Reading
We learned vocabulary and increased our content knowledge through extensive reading. Why should learning Spanish be any different?
Mira's Experience
When texts are too hard, students can develop a fear of reading. Mira writes accessible and engaging texts for very beginning Spanish language learners that also deepen their knowledge of the world.
Working with schools since 1999
Hundreds of thousands of students learning Spanish have read Mira's books. We work exclusively with school districts and teachers to provide curricular and supplementary resources.
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"We finished the capibara con botas book yesterday and I was surprised how this book became a center of discussion without any prompting. Everyone was commenting about how good this book was and they were trying to go deep into the different messages."
"The depth of the substance Ms. Canion provides for students and teachers in her work with a limited scope of vocabulary make her books accessible, culturally relevant, and engaging to students. "
"The teacher's guide for that book is amazing! Powerpoints, a variety of classroom activities, related cultural explorations, project ideas, quizzes/exams. Wish every book I've used in class had something like it."
"My students always run to the classroom library when a new Mira Canion book is available. They enjoy how easy they are to read but also the interesting characters and stories."
"My classes went crazy for the Capibara book this year! It was easy enough that even my lowest reading 7th grader could understand it, but interesting enough that they all loved it."
Download 9 capibara Spanish question word posters!
Capybara Question Word Posters
Print and Display in your Classroom
Join our mailing list and grab 9 full-color 8.5 x 11 posters to hang as you instruct. Help students understand and use question words. Includes nine illustrations from the book El capibara con botas.
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