ItoLina Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Hi Everyone, This is my first post, so I first just wanted to say that I am so excited to find somewhere that there are other families homeschooling their bilingual kids. I have felt pretty alone as we begin this adventure and it is so nice to find a place to go for support and advice. We are just beginning. My son is 4 and is jbilingual (English/Spanish). Right now his spoken language is about even in both. My husband only speaks to the kids in Spanish and I speak to them in English. However, as I teach him to read, which I do pretty much in English (once and a while we do a little Spanish reading), he is definately doing better reading in English. He is just in the early stages of beginning to read right now. He can read the first set of BOB books, and we are working our way through the Now I'm Reading! series 1 books. I would LOVE to find some equivelant easy reader books in Spanish but I have no idea where to even look. Anyone know of any? Right now the only resource I have for teaching him reading in Spanish is a workbook we picked up the last time we visited family in El Salvador. It goes through the letter sounds and has some practice sentences that we read, but he doesn't get as excited about reading the sentences as he does about reading the books. Sorry for the super long post. Thanks for taking the time. Tamara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 You can find Spanish language books on Amazon and in most bookstores as well as the library in most places in the US. DS enjoys Clifford, Dora, Backyardigans, etc. They are just as reasonably priced here as English language books. We've also had luck buying used lots of Spanish language books on ebay. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItoLina Posted September 25, 2011 Author Share Posted September 25, 2011 Thanks. We really have nothing locally. We live in Hawaii and there are not many Spanish speakers here. I will check out Amazon though. Thanks again. Tamara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Reading A-Z lets you print leveled readers in Spanish. The downside is that it's $85/yr to subscribe, though. I've found that many of the Spanish "Easy reader" books aren't-they are translations of English books and end up with sentence structure and vocabulary that are FAR less "Easy reader" than they were in the original English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 I've gotten alphabet books, easy readers and intermediate readers from Scholastic. They were in the Club Leo flyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mehamgul101 Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 well you can find spanish books from online through the google search engine and also from amazon,s website and really you can also find them online stores of spanish so there are many ways through can you search them so easily thanks for your posting here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItoLina Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 I've found that many of the Spanish "Easy reader" books aren't-they are translations of English books and end up with sentence structure and vocabulary that are FAR less "Easy reader" than they were in the original English. This is the problem I have been comming accross too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItoLina Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 Thanks for all the suggestions. I am really gonna get on it and search this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dands Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Try rod and staff. They have Spanish reading literature. They also have a Spanish curriculum grade 1-7. I just bought the first grade and am excited to get started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItoLina Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 Try rod and staff. They have Spanish reading literature. They also have a Spanish curriculum grade 1-7. I just bought the first grade and am excited to get started This looks great! Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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