Get Them Reading Spanish from the Start

As a Spanish teacher, you know the power of language and research in second language acquisition confirms it: reading should start early, even with first-year students.

Too often, teachers hold off on reading until students have "enough" vocabulary. But the evidence tells a different story. When students engage with meaningful, illustrated texts from the very beginning, something remarkable happens:

Scaffolded texts aren't a shortcut, they're a research-backed strategy! Mira Canion's Arlo series is designed with exactly this in mind: carefully selected vocabulary and rich illustrations that make reading accessible and rewarding from lesson one.

Your first-year students don't need to wait.

They need a text that meets them where they are.