Puntos de Partida: An Invitation To Spanish (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Pérez-Gironés, Ana María

Dorwick, Thalia

Knorre, Marty

Glass, William R.

Villarreal, Hildebrando

Schools & Teaching

McGraw-Hill College

MÁS is an Intermediate Spanish program built on the assumption that students learn best when they are fully engaged. Each component of the MÁS experience is designed to spark curiosity and inspire critical thinking. Mas provides intriguing and timely cultural content throughout and a solid review of structures covered in the first year. A newly enhanced Tertulia section in each chapter also places a strong emphasis on open-ended communication, ensuring that students benefit from a wealth of opportunities for communicative practice both in class and online. Through its diverse and lively view of the Spanish speaking world Mas motivates a new generation of students to be inspired to communicate in Spanish. When paired with McGraw-Hill’s Connect platform Mas provides a winning combination of engaging content and extensive practice to help students meet second-year expectations. Engaging &amp; Relevant Video &amp; Cultural ContentThe new "En Pantalla" feature is an engaging collection of videos designed to interest and engage students by including a mix of journalistic reports, informational videos, and short films that represent the variety of videos people typically watch daily. These videos will help make the language meaningful to their everyday interactions with family, friends, and fellow students. "En la comunidad" (formally En tu comunidad) sections focus on real, target-language based tasks that students can easily perform, and which emphasize the idea that community extends beyond the immediate community or neighborhood and to across the globe. This latest edition now also contains authentic "Minilecturas" and "Lecturas" with authentic culture and language content, and unit 4 has been revised to focus on more relevant and engaging cultural topics, all making the reading throughout more intriguing and relevant for students. Expanded Communication Practice A newly enhanced Tertulia section in each chapter ensures students benefit from a wealth of opportunities for communicative practice both in and out of class. Increased Practice Activities in Textbook and OnlineNow at least four activities for each grammatical lesson, providing students more opportunities to strengthen skills and communicate in a meaningful way. This increased number of activities gives students more opportunities to put newly acquired grammar concepts into practice. The ¿Cuándo se dice? (formerly ¡No te equivoques!) Redacción writing activities throughout the text include strategies for writing with embedded pertinent grammar lessons so students can more soundly build upon previous knowledge as they write. McGraw-Hill's Connect platform now also contains an expanded selection of auto-graded practice and comprehension activities to help ensure that students are coming to class prepared to use the language and communicate in class. LearnSmart modules within connect provide students with an effective personalized and adaptive learning tool that assesses each students trouble spots and provides practice for strengthening those particular areas. These modules have been updated to closely align with the vocabulary and grammar of this latest edition. Content available on the GoWith the McGraw-Hill's Connect &amp; Read Anywhere apps students can now access their course content anywhere, anytime; improving their homework &amp; reading experience and improving overall course performance.

MÁS

Adán-Lifante, Virginia

McGraw-Hill.

LearnSmart This adaptive diagnostic tool helps students take charge of their own learning. McGraw-Hill LearnSmart is an intelligent learning system that uses a series of adaptive questions to pinpoint each student's knowledge gaps. LearnSmart then provides an optimal learning path for each student, so that they spend less time in areas they already know and more time in areas they don't. The result is LearnSmart's adaptive learning path helps students retain more knowledge, learn faster, and study more efficiently.

LearnSmart Introductory Spanish 720 day Access Card for Puntos de partida

Becher, Anne

Isabelli Associate Professor, Casilde A.

Elliott, A. Raymond

McGraw-Hill Education

Success in the language classroom requires so much more than just a text. In any language-learning setting, students require numerous and various opportunities to read, write, hear, and speak.\nPuntos de partida sets the standard for Spanish-language teaching. An innovative program that has been continuously refined for today’s class, Puntos delivers proven pedagogy with clear and effective presentations, comprehensive teaching resources, and powerful digital tools.\nNow in its eleventh edition, Puntos continues to build on the holistic, five-skills approach it pioneered, and offer a wealth of resources for every instructor and every learner.\nPuntos hallmark features include:\nA comprehensive scope and sequence that allows instructors to choose what to cover throughout the course without having to supplement their own materials to fill gaps present in other texts.\nA carefully arranged organization that progresses from formulaic expressions to vocabulary and grammar relevant to daily life and personal interests (studies, family, home, leisure activities), then goes on to prepare students for survival situations (ordering a meal, traveling), and finally branches out to broader themes (current events, social and environment issues). This forward progress is reinforced by a cyclical structure where vocabulary, grammar, and language functions are continuously reviewed and recycled.\nClear and effective vocabulary and grammar presentations that focus on the acquisition of vocabulary during the early stages of language learning and then at the start of each chapter throughout the text. Grammar is introduced in thorough explanations, with careful attention given to skills development rather than grammatical knowledge alone.\nAn integrated five-skills approach: One of the defining features of Puntos is its careful sequencing of activities, moving students from controlled to free-form tasks. Building off of the improved scaffolding in the tenth edition, the eleventh edition includes Proyectos, engaging communication tasks positioned at key moments in each chapter that guide students to create in the target language and accomplish a culturally significant goal.\nEngaging and Immersive Digital Tools: McGraw-Hill’s Connect course management system is rooted in research on effective student learning practices, integrating adaptive learning tools with dynamic, engaging language practice activities. McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart provides each student with a personalized and adaptive learning experience based on individual needs. Practice Spanish: Study Abroad, the market’s first 3-D immersive language game, brings the Spanish language to students in a fun, engaging experience. Students study abroad virtually in Colombia where they create their own avatar, live with a host family, make new friends, and navigate a variety of real-world scenarios using their quickly developing language skills. Recordable Video Chat powered by GoReact, is a chat tool, now available on Connect, that allows students to practice live, synchronous communication. Voice Board, by GoReact, is a new asynchronous voice tool that gives students the chance to post video, audio, or text comments related to the topic and respond to their classmates’ posts.

Puntos (Student Edition)

MÁS is an Intermediate Spanish program built on the assumption that students learn best when they are fully engaged. Each component of the MÁS experience is designed to spark curiosity and inspire critical thinking. From its image-rich design to its thought-provoking readings and engaging collection of videos and short films, MÁS expands students’ language skills while also broadening their perspective of the world around them. MÁS places a strong emphasis on carefully scaffolded activities that guide students to create with language, ensuring that students benefit from a wealth of opportunities for communication practice, in class and online, and across multiple discourse types. Through its inclusive approach to diversity, MÁS exposes students to varying perspectives and viewpoints, better preparing them to become global citizens. Providing students the tools needed to bridge cultural and social divides, MÁS motivates a new generation of students to communicate in Spanish and to explore the richness and diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. When paired with McGraw Hill’s Connect digital platform, MÁS provides a winning combination of engaging content and extensive practice to help students meet second-year expectations.

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Puntos De Partida

New York, NY : McGraw Hill

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