With units built around rich cultural topics and compelling essential questions, EntreCulturas and EntreCultures are the perfect fit for our IB Middle Years Programme. We love the focus on development of both language and cultural proficiency and the wide range of communicative learning activities that work as well in middle school as they do for high school learners.

I love how Wayside Publishing honors the Hispanic community in the United States of America in their new Spanish language textbook series, EntreCulturas. It's refreshing. It’s good when the first, second and third things you see in the table of contents are related to culture instead of grammar. Great job!

I've been using levels one and two with my first and second year learners for a year and a half. I like it because it's very clear and is effective as an entry-level proficiency tool. The learners like it because they aren't as scared as they are of other textbooks. The material is made to be accessible to THEM. The lay out is easy to follow and even the font is approachable, which for entry level learning is very helpful. For some of my learners, they have difficultly even leaving their own neighborhood. I appreciate the content and resources that show younger students "a true and honest source" that they can connect to, that looks like something in the real world that they might see in a store or on TV or on the internet at home. When there is integrity to the learning through authenticity, it motivates the kids to stay in the target language.

This is the only textbook series that incorporates comprehensible input strategies and has supports from level 1 to prepare students for the AP exam.

This is my 49th year in education. EntreCulturas provides multiple spontaneous conversation opportunities for students, and teachers are able to look at something and immediately go from there with it - and perhaps even do the types of things they used to have to do on their own. EntreCulturas is the only series that I know of that provides that kind of material for kids to begin to speak with each other naturally. It's set up the way that I've always been striving to teach.