When you learn Spanish it’s a bit like a jigsaw puzzle.  When you put it all together you can make something amazing.  Our exciting range of books for children learning Spanish include the following types of books:

• Activity books with fun activity sheets, word searches and colouring pages
• Story books with a translation, vocabulary list and a song / rap to sing at the back of each book
• Word searches in fun shapes with pictures that accompany the list of words to find
• Colouring books to learn your first 100 words in Spanish
• Games such as snakes and ladders, the pairs card game and 3 in a row

Cool Kids Speak Spanish

With 6 great topics in each book, Cool Kids Speak Spanish is a range of activity books which is ideal for children aged 7 to 11 learning Spanish. Each topic starts with a picture page showing all the words for that topic. These words are then practised and sentences are built. Each topic ends with a fun word search.

Cool kids speak Spanish - book 1

All our books are available worldwide from Amazon and local bookstores.   Just make a note of the title of the book you would like, the author name Joanne Leyland and the ISBN.  

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On holiday in spain cool kids speak spanish

Learn Spanish before you go away & 15 challenges to use Spanish whilst on holiday in Spain

The idea of this fantastic book is to learn some Spanish from the first part of the book before you go on holiday, then to try the various challenges outlined in the second part of the book whilst away.

The topics covered in this book are: Greetings, first words, numbers, drinks, Spanish food, ice creams, hotels, campsites, around town.

Speaking Spanish is fun, and this book is an ideal way to encourage your child to speak Spanish whilst on holiday in Spain or a Spanish speaking country.

If you would like to have this book, you can order it from Amazon or from bookstores worldwide.

40 spanish word searches cool kids speak spanish

With 40 exciting topics, this book is ideal to help learn or revise useful Spanish vocabulary. Throughout the book the word searches appear in fun shapes and pictures accompany the Spanish words so that each word search can be a useful and meaningful learning activity. At the back of the book the Spanish - English vocabulary is split into the 40 topics that are covered in this book, and there is also the answer section.

This fantastic book is available from Amazon and from bookstores all over the world.   Just make a note of the book title, the author name Joanne Leyland and the ISBN.

Cool kids do maths in spanish

Cool Kids Do Maths in Spanish has been carefully written for 9 – 12 year olds by a qualified and experienced foreign languages teacher. As it’s both useful and impressive to know all the numbers from 1 to 100 in Spanish, this book may also interest older children. 

Chapters 1 to 7 practice 10 – 20 new numbers at a time as well as recap on the numbers already introduced. Each chapter begins with a page practising the new numbers. This is followed by fun mathematical activities to help embed the numbers in the child’s learning. The 8th chapter of this book recaps on the numbers 10 to 100 in Spanish. Finally there is a chapter on fractions using colours in Spanish and pizza toppings.   

On each activity sheet there is support in Spanish for the numbers needed for completing that particular activity. And at the back of the book, there is a lovely reference page for the numbers 1 to 100 in Spanish and a fun game.

The activity sheets can be photocopied for use by the purchasing institution or individual in their classes or at home. This books is a great cross curricular Spanish and maths resource for teachers as each section could make a booklet for that number range. The activity pages would also make great extension activities for pupils who finish their class work first.

All our books are available worldwide.  You can order them from Amazon or from local bookstores.

games

Games are a great way to engage pupils so they have fun whilst they are learning in a meaningful context.  And we publish two different books which are both full of fantastic games.

Photocopiable games for teaching spanish

Games are a great way to engage pupils so they have fun whilst they are learning in a meaningful context.   

To differentiate the learning activities for classes of different abilities, the games have been colour coded according to the amount of Spanish words that appear in the games. “Verde” is for the lower ability group, “amarillo” is for the middle ability group, and “rojo” is for the higher ability group.

At the front of the book you will find a detailed plan of which Spanish words each ability group has for each topic. The 8 great topics in this fantastic book include drinks, greetings, fruit, pet animals, clothes, food, transport and weather. The differentiated games in this book include: Snakes and ladders, dominoes, board game style games, coordinates and 3 or 4 in a row. The games are ideal for pupils aged 7 - 14 and have been created by a qualified teacher, with 20 years experience in teaching languages to children. For each game there is a useful Spanish vocabulary list, many with pictures, for all the words the pupils need for that game.

Each topic also has a set of mini cards. There are so many different language games that can be played using mini cards, for example the pairs card game, guess the word etc, so at the back of the book there are 16 ideas of activities to do with the mini cards. The pair work activity instructions can either be given as an instructions page for the children to choose their own game, or you can choose the games the children will play. For the games using the mini cards you can decide if you want the whole class to have all the cards, or if you continue to ask groups to focus on the words outlined in the detailed vocabulary plan for their group.

The games can be played to learn or revise Spanish vocabulary for the 8 topics, or the pupils can practise making Spanish sentences or questions as they play the games. For each topic there are ideas for making sentences or questions using the words in that topic, and you can choose what you want the pupils to practise as they play the games.   Once photocopied, the games are an excellent classroom resource that can be used time and time again. The mini cards look good photocopied onto card, and to make the different sets easy to separate you could use 3 or 4 different colours when photocopying. The other games look lovely photocopied onto either A4 or A3. Games are ideal for repetition, reinforcement, encourage a positive approach to learning a foreign language and also encourage the development of good social and communication skills. Let’s make learning Spanish fun!

You can order this fantastic book from Amazon or from your local bookstore.

Spanish word games

Have fun learning Spanish with this lovely collection of games.  Topics include colours, pencil case, fruit, the farm, ice creams,  the winter, the garden, the sea, pets, hobbies, the restaurant, tapas, weather, the summer, vegetables.  At the front of the book is a dice with the numbers in Spanish on it and this can be photocopied and made to use with the games. The fun games are printed in colour and include snakes & ladders and other games in the style of board games, dice game, guess the word game, pairs card game and 3 in a row. The author, Joanne Leyland, is a qualified foreign languages teacher with 20 years experience in teaching languages to children. The suggested age range for this book is children aged 7-11 but the content may also interest children of other ages who are learning Spanish.

If you would like to buy a copy of this great book, go online to Amazon or ask for it at your local bookstore.  All our books are available worldwide.

Stories

There are three fantastic stories in Spanish in our range of Spanish books.  At the back of each book there are 3 pages which may be photocopied for class or home use:

• Useful Spanish words and phrases - To help learn some Spanish words and phrases you could create a poster by copying some of the Spanish words and drawing a picture for each.
• A Spanish-English translation of the story - Ideal for checking you understand everything that happens in the story.
• A short song that could be sung or made into a rap - how many different versions can you create using the lyrics?

Seis mascotas maravillosas

Learning Spanish is fun with this delightful story about pets. In the story, a boy called Marcos asks his friends if they have a pet. Marcos discovers that all his friends have a pet. Marcos though doesn’t have a pet, but one day he finds a coin and he makes a wish. Will his wish for a pet come true? Read to the end of the story to find out!  On each of the pages where Marcos asks his friend if they have a pet, the pet can be seen hiding behind a bush. Parents/teachers could ask their little ones what the animal is called in Spanish before turning over the page to see the animal in full and the name in Spanish. For each pet, there is a page giving details of the type of pet, the pet’s name, the size of the pet and the colour of the pet - If you like singing then sing each of these 4 lines twice to a made up tune - or you could try saying the words as rap.

Availability: This book may be ordered from Amazon and bookstores globally.

el mono que cambia de color

Learning Spanish is fun with this delightful story about a monkey that changes colour each time he eats something of a different colour. But what colours will he turn? Will he ever return to his usual colour? 

The storyline incorporates useful Spanish words and phrases from the topics of general conversation, days of the week, colours, food and opinions about the things you like to eat.

If you would like a copy of this book you can purchase it from Amazon and bookstores worldwide.

un extraterrestre en la tierra

In the story, an alien visits Earth and he meets a girl called Ana María.  The alien is curious why on the planet Earth there are so many things that they do not have on his planet, so Ana María explains why we have various things.  The storyline incorporates useful Spanish words and phrases from the topics of general conversation, clothes, weather and activities.

This lovely story may be purchased from Amazon and local bookstores all over the globe.

Spanish at christmas time

Have fun learning Spanish with this Christmas themed activity book. This book is ideal for children aged 7 - 11, but it may also interest children of other ages learning Spanish.  The contents of this fantastic book includes:
● Christmas themed activity sheets covering Christmas words, Christmas and New year in Spain and pet animals
● Colour by number Christmas pictures with the colours in Spanish
● Fun word searches (The Spanish words to find each have a small picture)
● Board game style games
● Spanish Christmas cards and a Happy New Year card to colour
● Spanish bookmarks to colour

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