Agua tóxica Teacher’s Manual

With professional-quality photos, this digital teacher’s manual is extremely user-friendly, supportive, clear, and organized. Grab it and teach. Just add students!

Agua tóxica is best used as a sequel or backstory to El capibara con botas.

The book builds on the vocabulary of El capibara con botas.

First-semester Spanish. Great for elementary, middle school, and high school alike. 

For Every Chapter

• ONE PAGE at-a-glance lesson plans in English

• Student Objectives:  a series of statements beginning with “I can…” for student growth beyond simply reading

• Individual and group exercises, activities, and assignments addressing the Common Core ELA Standards

• Performance-based activities aligned with World-Readiness Standards

• Reproducible Quizzes and Tests to use as exit quizzes, check for understanding, unit exams with and without answers, and in various formats: fill in the blank, short answer, true or false 

• Teaching strategies for different learning styles, comprehension questions for leading discussions, and classroom games.

• Substitute teacher lesson plans

• Essential chapter vocabulary 

Features and Highlights

• The Essential Question: a focused theme throughout the book for students to connect to their experience.

• Character exploration activities

• Assignments for making Personal Connections so students can relate the material to their own lives

• Predict the plot and imagine alternative storylines

Multimedia

• Web links for deeper exploration through videos and slideshows of cultures, locations, and other topics

• Word Clouds

• High-quality photography

• Listening comprehension exercises

Beyond the Book

• Supplementary authentic resources for cultural exploration

• Resources to explore South American geography, Peru, animals of the Amazon 

• Global challenges: balancing petroleum extraction, overproduction of plastics, deforestation, and pollution