SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE · SECONDARY
Take secondary Spanish Language and Literature to the next level
Asterisco is the Spanish Language and Literature program for secondary school (7th–10th grade). Its innovative approach integrates thinking routines and skills, competency-based learning situations, formative assessment, and language tools to develop competencies through contextualized activities. Revised in line with the NGLE (the Royal Spanish Academy’s New Grammar of the Spanish Language).
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A way of teaching language arts that will set your students up for success
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It helps students understand, connect, and apply what they learn, promoting learning based on understanding rather than rote memorization.
An approach focused on developing the language skills students need to communicate effectively for any purpose.
The program’s texts have a communicative purpose and convey a message that students must identify, interpret, and evaluate. This encourages reflection on their own reading and writing process, as well as metacognition.
The material is organized into strands based on the core knowledge of the language arts curriculum, so you can adapt it to your classroom’s different paces, interests, and needs.
The program offers competency-based challenges and activities, with cooperative, playful, and reflective tasks that help students transfer what they learn to other subjects and to real life.
Assessment is designed as a tool to support learning, helping students articulate their progress and encouraging self-regulation.
The Literary education strand aims to help your students interpret literary texts, get to know important literary works, and develop creative writing with literary intent, fostering both a love of reading and personal expression.
Materiales
The Spanish Language and Literature program that delivers results
A wide variety of materials and resources designed to support your teaching and make your day-to-day much easier.
Students
- Activity book. The student book, with activities organized into 6 strands: Languages and their speakers, Communication, Literary education, Grammar, Spelling, and Vocabulary. This allows for flexible planning. It includes final projects that bring all the content together.
Available in consumable and non-consumable editions. - Reference book. Reference material that helps students build skills and knowledge independently and step by step.
It includes theory, examples, strategies, and study techniques. - tekman digital. An online space for students, with access to the digital version of the materials and other program resources.
Teachers
- Teacher documents. Assessment tools, detailed lesson plans, and multimodal resources.
- myroom. A digital classroom manager with materials, resources, and tools to plan the school year, prepare sessions, teach, assess, and access professional learning.
Classroom
- Game box. Each box contains 10 games linked to the different strands of the activity book, designed to consolidate and review the year’s key content in a fun, motivating way.
We recommend one box for every 4–5 students.
Inside, you’ll find the pieces and materials to play the games in class, plus the instruction manual.
myroom classroom manager
This is how you'll prepare your lessons!
Everything you need to prepare your lessons and lead engaging whole-class demonstrations. Manage your classroom with ease, plan the school year, and access the content for every session with all the materials, apps, tools, and online professional learning.
Key points
Looking for a different kind of language arts program? You've found it!
Asterisco is one of a kind.
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A focus on communication
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Active student participation
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Learning built on understanding
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Activities that support UDL principles
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Age-appropriate texts
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A focus on the message of each text
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A strategic and pedagogical partner
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Assessment focused on learning
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A focus on grammar and spelling
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Students in a passive role
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Rote learning
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Content that’s hard to adapt for diverse learners
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Unadapted, fragmented texts
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A focus on literary history
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A book supplier
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Punitive and summative-only assessment
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METHODOLOGICAL CONTINUITY
Language arts materials for every stage
Asterisco builds on Ludiletras and Superletras, sharing the same pedagogical foundation. It adapts its content to secondary learning goals, offering a natural, coherent progression in the development of language skills.
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