Spanish Leveled Books
Raz-Plus provides high-quality authentic and translated Spanish books in printable, projectable, and electronic formats. This large Spanish book collection includes different levels of text complexity that progressively increase in difficulty to help students improve their Spanish literacy skills. Dual language or bilingual learners can read Spanish texts at various levels and in their areas of interest anytime with 24/7 Web access to get the practice they need to become better, more confident readers.
- Why Spanish Leveled Books
- How Spanish Books Are Leveled
- Spanish Leveled Book Formats
- Spanish Leveled Book Support Resources
- Spanish Books and Leveling
Related Information
Why Spanish Leveled Books
Spanish Leveled Books are an essential support for students in dual language, bilingual, and immersion programs. The carefully leveled books help emerging bilinguals develop their comprehension and fluency as they become better, more confident Spanish readers.
The range of fiction and nonfiction text types ensure that students can find topics that appeal to them while also connecting literacy and content-area instruction.
This Spanish book collection is accompanied by resources that promote all aspects of biliteracy, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
How Spanish Books Are Leveled
There can be a broad range of skills within any group of students. It is not a checklist. Every student in a particular range will not fit into a specific mold. One way to leverage Leveled Books is through small group instruction, which may include targeted skills instruction, teacher-led instruction, and peer collaboration. In this way, teachers can meet the specific literacy needs of their students. Teachers may also use these texts to provide small group instruction that targets the language and literacy needs of students.
The diverse cultural context offered by the Authentic Spanish Books motivate and engage students. Spanish Translated Leveled Books work well paired with the corresponding English book for promoting literacy development in both languages and for providing opportunities for language comparison.
Spanish Leveled Book Support Resources include worksheets, discussion cards, and comprehension quizzes to support and guide instruction. For Authentic Spanish Books, use the lesson plans to help guide instruction. For Spanish Translated Books, the English lesson plans provide a clear sequence of steps for practicing specific skills and strategies.
The eBooks and eQuizzes provide opportunities for independent practice following each whole group or small group lesson or anytime a student has access to the Internet through a computer or tablet.
- Kids A-Z management tools allow teachers to provide custom assignments that meet specific student needs.
- Use the Reading Room customization tools to create a Spanish Reading Room and set available reading levels to ensure students practice reading developmentally appropriate books.
- Reading Room access through Kids A-Z provides motivation to read a wide variety of books that students can choose from based on their interests.
ALL the resources that support a book can be found on its home page.
Spanish Leveled Book Formats
Raz-Plus Spanish Leveled Books come in different formats to meet independent, small-group, and whole-class objectives.
Printable Books can be used in class or sent home for practice. Color, black and white, single-sided, and double-sided printed options are available.
Projectable Books can be used with digital projectors and interactive white boards. Projectable Book Tips PDF explain how to reach objectives for fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and more using the tools provided.
Listen eBooks provide models of fluency with a natural voice and highlighted words, phrases, or sentences as they are read for students to follow along. Many lower level Listen eBooks provide engaging animation and sound effects.
Read eBooks allow students to read silently, whisper read, or record their reading using a headset or a computer's microphone and our built-in recording tools. Students can send these practice recordings to your Kids A-Z In Basket so you can check their fluency progress. You can also download and save the recordings to your computer as MP3 audio files.
Multilevel Books allow students who read at different levels to enjoy the same book. One option for using multilevel books is to group students according to skill level. However, it is critical to introduce comprehension skills, phonics, and word attack strategies to all students.
Pocketbooks are the ideal size for students to take home for extra practice.
Wordless books let students use their imaginations by letting them tell their own stories with a book's illustrations. The Wordless books can also support retellings of the original text from levels aa-J. The Wordless Book Lesson provide suggested skills and strategies.
Spanish Leveled Book Support Resources
Each small group reading session takes about 15 to 25 minutes and emphasizes higher-order thinking skills while providing the opportunity for deeper understanding of the text.
Instruction begins with an introduction of the book and discussion to build background.
Students may be placed in groups based on similar literacy and language needs, and given books to read that target specific skills and strategies.
Discussion focuses on text-dependent questions which require students to cite evidence from one or more sections of the text to formulate responses.
Spanish worksheets, discussion cards, and a comprehension quiz accompany Spanish Leveled Books. For Authentic Spanish Books, use the lesson plans to support instruction. For Spanish Translated Books, the English lesson plan can provide ideas or support during instruction of the Spanish book.
Comprehension and Language Worksheets
- Comprehension and other Spanish literacy skills are supported by up to four worksheets with each book.
- Quick skill-worksheets build Spanish language arts skills, including phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, word structure and meaning, and grammar and mechanics.
- For Authentic Spanish Books, skill worksheets support important Spanish foundational, vocabulary, an grammar skills.
- For Spanish Translated Leveled Books, Spanish language skill practice parallels English skill practice when appropriate or provides original, language-appropriate practice.
- Graphic organizer worksheets engage students in the reading process.
Quick Checks for Assessing Comprehension
Available in printable, projectable, and eQuiz format, comprehension quizzes provide text-dependent questions for an easy way to assess student understanding.
- Comprehension Quizzes accompany every leveled book from Level A to Level Z2 and most serial books.
- Multiple-choice questions cover a range of cognitive rigor and depth of knowledge.
- Quizzes at Level C and above (Level H and above for eQuizzes) also include at least one extended or constructed response question. These questions require students to write an answer to an open-ended question using sound reasoning. The questions allow teachers to measure skills that are difficult to assess with multiple-choice questions.
Additional eQuiz Information
- Students receive feedback on how well they performed on an eQuiz and earn different numbers of stars for passing scores or perfect scores. (For a complete list of star awards, see Student Awards & Incentives.) Students can correct or retake a quiz not passed.
- Kids A-Z Skill Reports provide teachers with information about skills each student missed on multiple-choice questions and help inform future instruction.
- Quiz correlations to the Common Core State Standards provide additional information about how well students perform according to grade-level expectations.
Discussion Cards
Discussion Cards support critical thinking, collaboration, and discussion among small groups or entire classes. Many discussion questions focus on text-dependent questions.
Each discussion card is tagged with the specific reading skill it targets. These include such skills as:
- Compare and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Make inferences/draw conclusions
- Analyze and evaluate
Spanish Books and Leveling
Raz-Plus Authentic Spanish Leveled books have been carefully written using stringent guidelines and the proprietary, best-in-class Leveling Criteria Learning A-Z Text Leveling System to ensure accuracy and consistency.
Spanish Translated Leveled Books were created by reviewing the English and Spanish leveling criteria as part of the translations process. Some books might have Spanish levels that vary slightly from the English level. Because Learning A-Z's translations mirror the content and structure of the original text while reflecting the natural flow of the target language and incorporating developmentally appropriate sentence structure and vocabulary, a Spanish translation's final level will be accurate for students learning to read in Spanish.
All Spanish Leveled Books display the Spanish reading level on the front cover. Spanish Translated Leveled Books are listed at their Spanish reading level with the level of their English counterparts also displayed to recognize and support students' biliteracy.
Spanish Translated Leveled Book Lesson Ideas
Each small group reading session takes about 15 to 25 minutes and emphasizes higher-order thinking skills while providing the opportunity for deeper understanding of the text.
Guided reading begins with an introduction of the book and discussion to build background.
Students are placed in similar-ability groups and given developmentally appropriate books to read. The teacher monitors and guides each student's progress and reading as needed.
Discussion focuses on text-dependent questions which require students to cite evidence from one or more sections of the text to formulate responses.
The English lesson plan can provide ideas or support during instruction of the Spanish book.
