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Author of Children's Books

Project Coordinator

Author/Editor and Project Coordinator of: A New Guided Reading Series: Farolitos 1999 (72 titles: 54 Adaptations,18 original titles & Teacher's Guides) published by Learning Media, distributed by Pacific Learning.              

Author and Project Coordinator of: A New Bilingual Multicultural Reading Program: Saludos/Greetings (27 titles in Spanish and 27 in English, for Read Alouds, Shared Reading, and Guided Reading & Teacher's Guides); published by Rigby, 1997.

Original Children's Books (English and Spanish)

  • In the Mountains/En las montañas, published by Lee & Low Books, 2003.
  • My Cousin Far Away, published by Learning Media, 2002.
  • I Play Soccer / Yo juego fútbol
  • Fish Prints / Huella de pescado, published by Lee & Low Books, 2000.
  • Where I Live;
  • I Wash;
  • Whale Watching; and
  • The Sunflower; all published by Learning Media, 2000.
  • Mirando Ballenas, El chirimía, El girasol, Farolitos, published by Learning Media, 1999.
  • The Story of Doña Chila / El cuento de Doña Chila;
  • Camila and Clay-Old-Woman / Camila y la Anciana-del-Barro;
  • The Lac Hong Music Group / El grupo musical Lac Hong;
  • I Am of Two Places: a children’s book of Poetry / Soy de dos lugares, all published by Rigby, 1997.
  • The Big Catch / Un día de pesca, published by Shortland, 1995, distributed by Rigby.

Photographed Original Children's Books

  • Confetti Eggs, published by Lee & Low Books, 2002.
  • Fish Prints / Huella de pescado, (in both English and Spanish) published by Lee & Low Books, 2000.
  • Whale Watching / Mirando Ballena, (in both English and Spanish) published by Learning Media, 2000.

Spanish Adaptations (wrote and edited)

  • En el zoolólogico and ¡Mira qué luna! published by Mondo Publishing, 1998.
  • 6 stages of Rigby's Literacy 2000. Guided Reading Books (144 titles) 1994, 1995.
  • 48 Spanish titles of Mi Mundo, for Emergent and Early Readers, including Big Books and Content Area Books, for Rigby, 1993.

Spanish Teacher’s Notes Written 

  • Farolitos Program, published by Learning Media, 1999.
  • Bookshop Program, published by Mondo Publishing, 1998.
  • El gato en la alfombra program, published by Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Literatura 2000, published by Shortland, distributed by Rigby, 1994.
  • DDL Books’ Spanish Literature Lessons for Parent Packets, 1991.
  • The STaR Program for John Hopkins University and SWRL, 1990-1992.

Articles, Teacher’s Notes, and Curriculum Written 

  • Wrote Article Summary: Guided Reading: Using Nonfiction, for Rigby’s Facilitator Newsletter, 1994.
  • Wrote Teacher’s Notes for Mondo’s Bookshop Program, 2000.
  • Curriculum and Texts on Recylcing for South West Regional Laboratory (SWRL), 1991.
  • Wrote the major portion of the Santa Ana Unified School District's Guide for their Kindergarten Language Arts Program, including Balanced Thematic Units in Spanish, 1989.

Reviewed and Edited

  • Spanish Chapter Books for Learning Media, 2002.
  • Twelve Spanish Books for Mondo’s Bookshop Program, 1998.
  • The English Guided Reading Program for Hispanic content for Learning Media, 1997.
  • The Bilingual Kindergarten Reading Program for MacMillan, 1996.
  • Reviewed and wrote revisions for Spanish Thematic Units for Hampton Brown Books, 1995.
  • Twelve Spanish Big Books for Rigby’s second edition printing of Traditional Tales.

 
 
 
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