our resources / nuestros recursos
early . developing . advanced
Our goal is to support Spanish language acquisition for our communities. If you're able to enroll your son or daughter in our language courses, we're more than happy to have them.
Most of these are provided free. A lot of work has gone into offering these texts.
These resources are best for Forms 2-6 (grades 4-12, ages 10-18)
Here are some resources for families to learn at home.
So you've decided that Spanish is the language for your family?
¡Qué bien!
¡Bienvenidos!
We use these with our intro to Spanish classes and Spanish 1.
Los recursos más cotizados para empezar con la lengua.
the Silabario hispanoamericano by Galdames
This book allows you to start out with Spanish sounds and syllables. Wonderful illustrations to accompany the oral exercises.
→ Start here if your child can read and repeat syllables because they're an early beginner.
Poemarios: Un día & Jarro de Flores by Juán José Tablada (1919, 1922)
This book of poems provides challenging vocabulary and ideas in bite-sized packages. Tablada wrote dozens of haikus about nature in Spanish. It's as if he frequently went on nature walks!
→ Start here if you'd like authentic literature but are just starting and would like playful practice. Beginners can read with support, but intermediates can read independently.
Our Spines edited by academia late y llama
We didn't write these, but our research led us to four older, illustrated textbooks that align with our pedagogical values. They're not perfect, but they're free, we have audio, and they're very good.
→ Start here if you're ready for full courses and have good learning habits for diligent, purposeful practice.
the Método Onomatopéyico by Gregorio Torres Quintero, (1926)
This early reader straddles lyric stories and narrative poems to offer early readers practice to build fluency. Playful and engaging, they're the prefect size for a narration!
→ Start here if you already have a late beginner or early intermediate reader who needs practice.
Versos y Rimas a collection by Dorado
in development
So you're ready for a little more than the basics?
¿Estás listo para practicar aún más?
These resources are for those moving from novice to intermediate. We use these with our Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 courses.
Los recuros más cotizados para continuar aprendiendo la lengua.
La Æsopica Para Niños a new edition of Aesop's Fables, adapted by late y llama (2023)
Charlotte Mason was not the first to use Aesop's Fables to teach literature. They're thousands of years old! We have created tiered versions that align with a popular and widely available English edition.
→ Continue here if you'd like to "level up" with these timeless moral stories of whimsical animal scenes.
by Torres Quintana, found in research trip an old library in Berlanga de Duero (rural Spain), scanned and edited by late y llama (2024)
A collection of short stories with illustrations. Another older reader, the vocabulary and structure is in verse form with an older Peninsular (Spanish from Spain) register.
→ Continue here if you'd like authentic practice with short stories written in an elegant lexicon.
Castillo, in development
Colibri by Salamanca Rosado, found in research trip an old library in Berlanga de Duero (rural Spain), scanned and edited by late y llama (2024)
So you're ready for authentic novels?
It would be cruel to offer early advanced readers Elizabethan Shakespeare or Golden Age Don Quijote. But helping your readers grown towards those late advanced and superior level texts is our goal. Not everyone can reach it, but there are many, many resources that can help you get nearer a native reading fluency. Reading living books in Spanish is our long-term, highest calling.
Para nuestros estudiantes hispanohablantes de herencia o de estudio, estamos acrecentanod nuestros recursos para apoyarles.
Once a certain fluency is achieved, these resources support students moving from intermediate to advanced. Heritage speakers, hispanohablantes, and Spanish 3+ students have resources here to develop their reading and cultural fluency.
Our current program looks like this:
We are in a second year of our four year cycle. Students engage in listening and speaking conversations, paired with level readings.
year 1: short stories of legends of Mexico, Spain, and Latinamerica, La Niña Invisible (novel about a cavernícula, a young cavewoman)
year 2: Platero (novel about a silver donkey), Negrita (novel about a black dog)
year 3 & year 4: in development
AP Spanish Literature: taking the CollegeBoard curriculum as our guide, this includes 23 texts (novels, short stories, essays) and over a dozen poems that cover a beginning undergraduate course in Spanish literature, from its earliest texts in the medieval era to the late 20th century. This is currently not offered as a late y llama course. Todavía no. (Not yet at least.)
Two decades of our language instruction are slowing becoming available.
And we're digging into old archives to make even more accessible to our communities.