How many secrets can a family hide? Secretos de familia tells two stories at the same time: one in modern-day Paraguay and another lived in the past. Jane and Miguel Ángel are about to discover a secret Luján and Ardiles still hide in the present. What is that secret? Paraguay slowly reveals the answers, from 1989 to 2016, highlighting the biggest events in the country’s history.

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Level 1
Unique Words: 50
Total Words: 9,187
Tense(s): presente
Glossary: yes

Reader: ©2020. Spanish. Level 1. High school. 5 x 7 inches. Softcover, 85 pages.

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This all-in-one, remote-friendly, reproducible teacher’s guide gives you everything you need to support your lesson on the Level 1 reader Secretos de familia. You get:

• Your Teacher’s Guide: Explanations of each section in the guide
• Pre-Reading Guide: Character and setting summaries, cultural notes, and helpful words and phrases
• Multiple comprehension activities, a quiz, and a summary for EVERY chapter
• Post-Reading Guide: A chapter survey, story discussion, writing activities to work directly with the story, a reader project, and a reader test
• Picture gallery of all images in the reader, plus activities
• The full reader glossary
• Complete answer keys for all activities

Teacher's Guide and Student Activities: ©2020. Spanish, English. Level 1. High school. 8.5 x 11 inches. PDF download, 99 pages.

About the Author

Patricia A. Verano is an English and Spanish teacher in Buenos Aires. Together with Pablo Ortega López, she is co-author of the novelita En busca del monstruo (2013). She is also co-author of the novelita Pobre Ana bailó tango (2007) with Verónica Moscoso and Blaine Ray, and is the author of Amigos detectives. She composed the songs on the albums Canciones de Pobre Ana, Canciones de Patricia va a California, Casi se muere, El viaje de su vida, and ¡Viva el toro!, which are based on novelitas. She also sings some of the songs, and provides the voice for the audiobook Patricia va a California.