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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid needs to memorize a lot of vocabulary from Realidades 1 and 2 to actually do well in Spanish 3.   Buy the books and go over the chapter review like this one -

[url]http://pedromurga.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/5/2/24529422/l1_capitulo_3a.pdf[/url][/quote]

Thanks! So do they use this as an informal textbook or something? Like I said, they don't have any official textbook.[/quote]

The teachers are teaching from Realidades like they have been doing for the past 20 years in MCPS and other school systems. They may or may not share this information with the students but that is besides the point. Teachers are not going to develop new content to teach or test when they have the Teacher Edition textbooks. Besides, these are really comprehensive textbooks and laid out in a systematic manner that tracks with the progression of the MCPS curriculum.  MCPS central office used to use the questions found in the textbooks to create the final exams - once upon a time, in the good ol days - when there used to be final exams.

The easiest thing to do is map the MCPS curriculum and syllabus for each course to the chapters in the book(s).  Also, make sure that the kids are doing the practice questions in the text-book and the chapter review.  There are tons of Realidades study guides and quizzes in Quizlet online so use them.  This alone will get you straight A's in FL  and it will actually teach them the language skills to become bilingual and tackle FL in HS and AP exams.  [/quote]

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