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The authentic Spanish Language Arts program

Honoring a student’s greatest asset: their home language

Multilingualism is a superpower. Our curriculum is designed to meet your students exactly where they are, providing a standards-based, flexible pathway to academic excellence and lifelong biliteracy.

Key Features:

The foundational design of Inquiry By Design’s High School courses ensures robust student engagement and skill mastery through:

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Heritage Language Programs

Designed for students who speak Spanish at home but haven’t had formal instruction in reading or writing. The curriculum helps them develop academic Spanish while affirming their cultural identity.

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Dual Language Programs

As districts and schools increasingly recognize the value of biliteracy, many offer dual language programs in secondary grades. With IBD, students grow their critical thinking skills while enhancing literacy skills too.

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Interrupted Education

Students whose schooling has been interrupted by migration, conflict, or other barriers, often have strong spoken language skills. Our curriculum offers extra support for reading and writing skill development.

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Spanish Language Arts

Many states are establishing policies that allow Spanish language arts to fulfill core ELA credit requirements. Our curriculum can meet this need and bring that policy to life for your Spanish-speaking students.

A clear path to biliteracy and beyond

Our curriculum provides a clear, structured pathway that validates their biliteracy and transforms their learning into a powerful advantage for college and career success.

An asset-based approach

Multilingual learners come to class with rich cultural and linguistic resources. Every learning experience in our program leverages these assets.

Texts that reflect their world

Diverse authors provide relatable experiences, creating a positive, inquiry-based environment to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

A clear path to credentials

Spanish language arts provides a comprehensive pathway to the Seal of Biliteracy. This official credential validates bilingual proficiency and opens doors to college credit and significant career advantages.

Ready-to-use curriculum

A comprehensive scope and sequence eliminates the need to create materials. Units include everything from daily lesson plans to assessments, freeing teachers to focus on what they do best: teaching.

"When students see their identities reflected and uplifted, they stay engaged."

Dual Language Instructional Specialist

Evergreen Public Schools

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Empower your students with true biliteracy.

Help your students move from the basics to true mastery with our intentionally designed curriculum. Our program is built to streamline learning, with built-in assessments that truly inform and enhance your teaching. Ready to see the difference our program can make?

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