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MisCositas.com GIVEAWAYS
Stay tuned for our monthly giveaways during 2010! All winners will be announced on this page (and notified via email) at the end of each month. Sorry, prizes can be mailed only to U.S. postal addresses. GOOD LUCK!
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AUGUST GIVEAWAY: Now's the time to start stocking your classroom or home library with wonderful children's literature in Spanish. One of the best guides around to help make wise book choices is the Essential Guide to Spanish Reading for Children and Young Adults. For our August giveaway, we have three copies of this excellent guide. Just post links to your favorite Spanish-language children's books on our FB page between August 1 and August 31 2010, and automatically enter to win. Good luck! Classroom teachers in bilingual and immersion programs as well as those who teach a content-based curriculum at all levels, will find the Essential Guide an invaluable resource. Likewise, parents of children in Spanish programs should also find the guide an important tool to help locate reading materials to enhance language learning beyond the classroom. English translations of each title and concise annotations help the user select works easily. Of particular value to classroom teachers and parents is the information on the age level appropriateness of each work. This guide can be downloaded for free in pdf format on the America Reads Spanish website. |
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June/July's WINNER: Monica Olivera Hazelton won a copy of the book: Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities, and Resoures for the Multicultural Classroom. Felicitaciones, Monica! Voices of Diversity: Stories, Activities, and Resoures for the Multicultural Classroom offers 20 engaging, first-person narratives about school experiences by students, teachers, and parents. The narratives focus on race and ethnicity, learning styles, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, linguistic diversity, gender and gender roles, learning abilities and special needs, and physical abilities. Questions, projects and activities help teachers synthesize these issues in ways meaningful to their own classroom practice. |
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APRIL's WINNER: Anita Ackerman Levy won a copy of the MUST-HAVE book for language educators: Languages and Children: Making the Match by Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg. Her winning video suggestion was "Frutas y Verduras." Watch the video on our YouTube channel! With a focus on communicative language teaching as it reflects cognitive and second language acquisition theory, this classic in the field provides a wealth of strategies and activities ready to use in the K-8 classroom. Languages and Children: Making the Match has been thoroughly revised and updated. Standards-based planning and instruction are the guiding principles throughout the book. This long-awaited third edition provides extensive new information that is not easily accessible to the field. Publishing this information in one source is a tremendous service to methods instructors and teachers, as well as to students. |
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March's WINNER: Loto Jimenez won a copy of the board game "Batalla de los Sexos"! Get ready for a board game that pits men against women in hilarious competition. Find out, once and for all, which is the superior sex; test your knowledge of the opposite sex with a series of gender-based questions. The first player or team to get their tokens to the other side of the board wins the game; for 2-4 people; play Time of 30-60 Minutes; ages 12 & up. |
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February's WINNER: Shotlitin Lr won a copy of the book Empower English Language Learners with Tools from the Web! Today's interactive Web tools offer language teachers a wealth of opportunities to inspire and motivate their students. This user-friendly, research-based guide shows how the "read/write" Web can enhance classroom learning and extend language acquisition beyond school hours. This resource provides:
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January's WINNER: Christine Karoly of Rhode Island won a copy of Berlitz' new 601 Spanish Verbs book! Berlitz 601 Spanish Verbs contains full conjugations of every verb in 16 tenses and moods. Finding the right ending and conquering irregular verbs has never been so easy! This full-color book features a free CD-ROM with words and phrases for your iPod. It also features:
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