Reviews for Entreculturas, Senderos and Autentico

[Melissa Rooney]

Any opinions on the above textbooks for levels 1,2 and 3??

Thanks.

[kildow.sarah]

We use Senderos for our Composition class on the university level. I like it a lot - lots of good advanced vocabulary and prompts for thinking/conversing in Spanish. The textbook website is horrible, though.

[Dawn Wyles]

I just adopted Autentico this year. I'm really happy with my choice. There's so much you don't know about a textbook until you've gotten started but I've been happy at each turn. The book includes a section of review before each chapter begins, reviewing necessary grammar & vocab for the chapter. Its a great opportunity to reteach. My students really do well with the practice activities provided as well. Overall, I feel its going to save me alot of time, in not making up my own practice activities. Besides, I'm just not as creative and they are!

[Ashley A]

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:46:22 PM UTC-4, Melissa Rooney wrote:

[Ashley A]

I also am using Autentico this year and it is a good textbook, if you don't expect everything to work in the all digital copies. They promote it as super interactive and the kids can type right in it and that it's super compatible with Google Classroom.  This is false. All it does is send a link to the Google Classroom you've set up. The kids cannot actually type or submit anything in the actual textbook itself. Also, just today I went into assign my students a Google Earth activity and all the Level 3 ones have disappeared. This isn't the first time something like this has happened.  If you aren't tech savvy or your superintendent doesn't care if you purchase digital textbooks - buy the print copies.  The digital stuff is extra that just isn't worth the hassle. I was extremely disappointed that all these kinks and nonsense wasn't worked out before they released this book system. 

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:46:22 PM UTC-4, Melissa Rooney wrote: