Teacher's Guide Tonia Patagonia y la Caja Mágica Margarita Perez García and Patricia Martí Torres

Spanish Level 1 Teaching Guide for Tonia Patagonia y la caja mágica

Level 1 (Novice-Low). Perfect for beginners!

IMPORTANT: This Teacher Guide does not include the novel Tonia Patagonia. However, if you purchase a class set of books, you can click here to access the Teacher Guide at 50% off.

Tonia Patagonia is an easy Spanish reader designed for beginner learners.

With the Tonia Patagonia Teacher Guide, students explore the geography of the Andes and its landmarks while acquiring the most common high-frequency words, introduced gradually chapter by chapter, including the Super 7 verbs, all the tener expressions (frío, calor, hambre, sed, miedo, sueño), numbers, and colours.

With the Tonia Patagonia Teacher Guide, your students will not only learn Spanish, they will explore a continent and connect with a powerful story that teaches what truly matters: friendship, courage, and love.

Teach Spanish through Story-Listening and Reading!

Tonia Patagonia is the first Story-Listening curriculum designed for total beginners. Teach with confidence and zero prep using the Tonia Patagonia Teacher Guide. Everything you need is ready to go.

The Tonia Patagonia Teacher Guide is full of engaging comprehensible input (CI) materials designed specifically for beginner Spanish learners. If you are new to comprehension-based teaching, the guide also includes support explaining each type of activity.

What’s included in this Teacher Guide?

10 complete chapters, each offering a full cycle of instruction.

Each chapter includes 35 to 40 slides carefully structured to support comprehension, interaction, and meaningful communication:

• Audiobook recordings narrated by the authors and recorded in a professional studio to support pronunciation, listening, and independent reading

• Word clouds and vocabulary exploration activities

• Images for TPR (Total Physical Response) with teaching scripts

• Scripts, photos, and videos for cultural PictureTalk activities

• Original illustrations from the book and maps for geographical PictureTalk with scripts

• Story-Listening prompts and scripts to introduce the language before reading

• Vocabulary and question sets for GimKit

• Reading options and post-reading activities for deeper understanding

• Reading comprehension questions

• Personalized discussion questions