Custom Literacy
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Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
About the store
I’m Jessica, the creator of Custom Literacy.
Formerly a bilingual kindergarten teacher of 3 years, I am now dedicated full-time to a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program through Antioch University, Los Angeles, to teaching writing in higher education, and to creating children’s books in Spanish.
I grew up in Southern California in a little town called Pearblossom, speaking English only. Once I took a Spanish class for the first time in high school, I was hooked to its lyricism and poetic syntax. I went on to study Spanish as a major at California State University Long Beach, living in Spain and Mexico intermittently. In my final year of college, I learned about a little thing called Bilingual Education. Children learning two languages at once, beginning in kindergarten? What an incredible concept! So I spent the following year in Guadalajara, working on my bilingual teaching credential, and subsequently taught kindergarten at a Dual Immersion school in lovely Santa Barbara.
Any bilingual teacher will tell you that teaching in two languages is twice the work; there are very few materials available in the minority language, so hours upon hours are spent translating!
That’s when I decided to embark on this project, to create the literacy materials in Spanish that we were lacking.
Shortly after, I found Joan X. Vazquez, an illustrator from Xalapa, Mexico whose contemporary illustrations are fresh and innovative. He was recently proclaimed winner of Catálogo de Ilustradores Infantiles y Juveniles de la FILIJ 2013 (Catalog of Children’s Illustrators)!!
We’ll do our best to bring you the most relevant Spanish literacy materials possible, made on both sides of the border.
Abrazos!
~The Crew
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Spanish Readers Theater
Based on the Mexican folktale, Señor Coyote y el Queso is a play script featuring four characters (El coyote, el conejo, narrador 1, narrador 2). According to legend, the coyote is Mexico's most mischievous animal. In this story, Coyote tries to eat Rabbit, but Rabbit, more clever than he, fools him.
For ages 5-7.
Why Readers Theater?
When children play, they lose themselves in their worlds of pretend. This is why Readers Theater (RT) is so fantastic- kids are given the opportunity to foster
K - 2nd
Drama, Reading Strategies
Spanish Readers Theater
La Llorona is the Mexican legend of the "weeping woman," traditionally told to frighten children into obeying. We've altered the story so that La Llorona is not simply a woman who has done something terrible and must eternally face the consequences, but rather a woman who learns from her experiences and makes the best of them. Her animals tragically drown in a storm, and she cries for days. But when she is given magical seeds from a mysterious turkey, her life changes.
Characters- La Llorona,
K - 2nd
Drama, Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. This is the third book in the series. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply downloa
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. This is the sixth book in the series. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply downloa
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. This is the fifth book in the series. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply downloa
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. This is the second book in the series. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply downlo
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. This is the fourth book in the series. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply downlo
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish Readers Theater Masks
These character masks accompany Spanish Readers Theater, Señor Coyote y el Queso.
K - 2nd
Drama, Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books
We strive to create high-quality Spanish literature in which many of our young readers can see themselves in the characters.
Las aventuras de Pepe is a Spanish printable book series that features High Frequency Words and language patterns with sentences repeated on each page, ideal for readers ages 3-7. Books are designed to meet the needs of children learning Spanish as a second language, as well as children whose first language is Spanish.
Simply download, print (in color or gray-scale), cut
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books Supplementary Activity
This printable supplements Las aventuras de Pepe y Susi Book 6. Students can create their own dialogue between the two characters.
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
Spanish High Frequency Words Books Supplementary Activity
This printable supplements Las Aventuras de Pepe Book 3. Students can reinforce vocabulary from the book, cut, paste, color, and staple their own books.
PreK - 2nd
Reading Strategies, Spanish
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I’m Jessica, the creator of Custom Literacy.
Formerly a bilingual kindergarten teacher of 3 years, I am now dedicated full-time to a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program through Antioch University, Los Angeles, to teaching writing in higher education, and to creating children’s books in Spanish.
I grew up in Southern California in a little town called Pearblossom, speaking English only. Once I took a Spanish class for the first time in high school, I was hooked to its lyricism and poetic syntax. I went on to study Spanish as a major at California State University Long Beach, living in Spain and Mexico intermittently. In my final year of college, I learned about a little thing called Bilingual Education. Children learning two languages at once, beginning in kindergarten? What an incredible concept! So I spent the following year in Guadalajara, working on my bilingual teaching credential, and subsequently taught kindergarten at a Dual Immersion school in lovely Santa Barbara.
Any bilingual teacher will tell you that teaching in two languages is twice the work; there are very few materials available in the minority language, so hours upon hours are spent translating!
That’s when I decided to embark on this project, to create the literacy materials in Spanish that we were lacking.
Shortly after, I found Joan X. Vazquez, an illustrator from Xalapa, Mexico whose contemporary illustrations are fresh and innovative. He was recently proclaimed winner of Catálogo de Ilustradores Infantiles y Juveniles de la FILIJ 2013 (Catalog of Children’s Illustrators)!!
We’ll do our best to bring you the most relevant Spanish literacy materials possible, made on both sides of the border.
Abrazos!
~The Crew
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