Tumba -- Teacher's Manual

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

Includes audiobook!

For Every Chapter

• Complete student-friendly lesson plans tied to I can statements and an essential question

• Individual and group exercises and assignments

• Reproducible comprehension Quizzes and Tests 

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

• Essential chapter vocabulary 

• Chapter comics

Features and Highlights

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

• Character exploration exercises to explore their world, fears, and motivations

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

• Predict the plot and imagine alternative storylines

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

• Word Clouds based on vocabulary frequency

• Quality on-location, full-color photographs to help visualize the story in context

• Embedded readings written by Laurie Clarcq

Beyond the Book

• Supplementary authentic resources for cultural exploration

• Learn about Dia de los Muertos

• Extended readings about a school day, calaveras, Pátzcuaro y la Isla de Janitzio, altars, and the Mexican Revolution.

• Enrichment activities for each chapter