Students do not just read Spanish. They learn how real readers think, before, during, and after a story. Predict, question, hunt for clues, and back it up with evidence.
Get the free Week 1 storyThe full illustrated story plus the bilingual talk frames · No credit card
Or see the ways to use itThree stories, then a showcase where they put it all together.
The Mystery Backpack
Sofía finds an unclaimed backpack in the library and follows bilingual clues. The story models exactly what we want readers doing, so the text and the skill are the same lesson.
Predicting and finding clues
The Blue Bench
Daniel sees Marisol sitting alone at recess and has to decide what to do. Readers learn to separate what the text says from what it shows.
Reading for evidence
Grandma's Recipe
Luisa bakes pan dulce with her abuela from a handwritten family recipe, and connects the story to her own life, her family, and the words that travel between both languages.
Making connections
The capstone
No new story. Students become literary critics: they compare two of the stories, share a favorite passage with evidence, and present a short bilingual reader response.
Sharing our thinking
Seventy-one pages across four weeks · Print the student pages, keep the teacher pages.
Same curriculum. Choose how it reaches your reader.
All four weeks, ready to print. Stories, practice pages, talk frames, vocabulary toolkits, teacher keys, the comparison organizer, and the discussion norms poster.
$37 · one-time
Best for: Homeschool families and co-ops
Get the packet suite · $37Four live sessions with Señora Shaw. Small group, real discussion, everyone speaks. Capped at 8 students.
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Best for: Students who need to talk, not just read
See the scheduleSite licensing for reading teachers, dual-language programs, and afterschool clubs. Includes facilitation guidance and standards alignment.
Quoted by group size
Best for: Schools, districts, and homeschool co-ops
Request a quoteThe Bilingual Readers Club was written and taught by a certified Georgia educator with 25 years of experience, not assembled from a template. Every week is ACTFL-aligned across the Interpretive, Interpersonal, Presentational, Comparisons, and Cultures standards.
Look at the title and cover. Predict in either language.
Use the pictures and cognates. Do not translate every word.
Hunt for clues, ask questions, make connections, mark cognates.
Share opinions, connections, and evidence, in both languages.
We read in Spanish first. English is the support, not the starting point.
Lisa Renea Shaw is a trilingual educator with 25 years of classroom experience and native-like Spanish fluency. She writes every story in the club herself and teaches the live sessions.
Get the complete Week 1 illustrated story and its bilingual reader talk frames. Read it with your child this week and see whether it fits.
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