Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #264518 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover

Customer Reviews

Excellent Middle School Textbook!
I will use this book for the first time this school year to teach Middle School Spanish. In planning, I have been impressed with the resources the publisher offers for teachers.

The book focuses on culture, connections, and communication and excludes in-depth explainations of the fine points of grammar, making it an ideal roadmap to a dynamic exploratory (or connections) class.

The publisher offers many resources to bring the language to life for students in a classroom setting.
Many ideas for promoting discourse are included.

Again, it seems ideal for an intro level class for adolescent students.

I like this textbook series
We used the Ven Conmigo series in my highschool Spanish I & II classes, and I found the textbooks very helpful. I guess the textbooks don't lay out every detail step by step--students need to take a certain amount of initiative for the learning process (like reviewing vocabulary on thier own time, participating in group work, and so on). These might not be the most appropriate textbooks for independent study though since a lot of the material is based on group activities, in class listening and videos, etc. Also, the guidance of a teacher (preferably a good one) goes a long way when attempting to create an excellent or great learning experience while using a good or even great textbook. Our highschool also used the parallel German series of these textbooks(I don't remember what it's called), and I also found those textbooks to be very easy to learn from.

Very Poor
I found this book to be very poor in the teaching of Spanish. Most of the teaching relied upon vague references and much guess work. Many key areas of the spanish language were very briefly covered and had little to no explanation for the usage of words. Most of the teaching was with examples that didn't seem to follow any rules. Ultimately, I disliked this manual and the course using it. The ONE good thing about it is it teaches numbers very well and basic greatings. However, I wouldn't expect anyone using this book to ever learn how to converse in long conversations. Ultimately, if it wasn't for a few saving factors, this would be at the bottom of the barrel.
- Travis