Texas Auténtico Textbook and Online Spanish for Grades 6–12

Texas Auténtico is a complete Spanish language program for all levels, Grades 6–12. It will infuse your Spanish language instruction with the rich nuances of Hispanic cultures, history, and peoples. Authentic conversations, music, art, film, customs, texts, and media weave seamlessly throughout the Texas Auténtico print and online curriculum.

Texas Auténtico is comprised of:

Student Edition - Available in digital or print, includes Spanish vocabulary terms with vivid photographs; cultural notes and sidebars on every page, authentic resources with level-appropriate tasks, and scaffolded activities at every step to support their learning.

Teacher’s Edition - Available in digital or print, includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. The digital Teacher’s Edition includes classroom planning and teaching strategies.

Texas Auténtico Digital Course - The Texas Auténtico digital courseware on Savvas Realize includes digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. 

Resources include:

Videohistorias and Videomodelos that model language usage
Speak and record activities
Discussion boards to foster interpersonal communication
Canciones de hip hop songs to practice vocabulary and grammar
Authentic Spanish language videos
Interactive map activities
Spanish grammar tutorials
Interactive whiteboard activities
Assignable Spanish language games
Interactive digital activities

Texas Auténtico Literacy Skills Workbook - Thematically linked readings and skills-based practice activities ideal for all students of Spanish, including heritage speakers.
Texas Auténtico Authentic Resources Workbook - Authentic resources and activities develop language acquisition and foster cultural understanding.
Texas Auténtico Leveled Vocabulary and Grammar Workbook - Provides differentiated practice to help students learn the new vocabulary and grammar.
Texas Auténtico Para hispanohablantes - Integrated within Texas Auténtico, the all-Spanish Para hispanohablantes resources provide support for teaching heritage speakers with Texas Auténtico.

Texas Auténtico is fully aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Spanish reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar apply students’ skills and understanding in authentic contexts. Students practice in all three modes of communication—interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational—building confidence and proficiency as they learn. Integrated Performance Assessments and Project-based learning experiences let students demonstrate what they can do with the Spanish language.

Yes—it’s even in the name Texas Auténtico! Interacting with authentic resources in the text and online, students can listen to native speakers, read a Spanish magazine article or blog, and take a virtual field trip around the Spanish-speaking world. Texas Auténtico is immersive and interactive language learning with supported authentic Spanish resources, created by native speakers for native speakers, with real-world contexts relevant to students’ lives.

Texas Auténtico digital courseware on Savvas Realize includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. All the course content is available online, and teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Click here to sign up for a demo.

For most of her professional life, Myriam (Mimi) Met has worked in the public schools. Her commitment to teaching began early. As a child who came to the US as a refugee, she later came to see that her opportunities in life had been due to the dedication of her own teachers. Fascinated by research on how the brain learns, and how teachers could make language learning happen, she decided to become a Spanish teacher.

Mimi was a high school teacher in New York, then a K-12 supervisor of language programs in the Cincinnati Public Schools. She also served as a Coordinator of Foreign Languages in Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. After a long career in public education, she joined the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland, where she worked on K-12 language policy and infrastructure development.

During her foreign language career of over forty years, Peggy Palo Boyles has taught elementary, secondary, and university students in both private and public schools. She is currently an independent consultant who provides assistance to schools, districts, universities, state departments of education, and other organizations of foreign language education. Her areas of expertise include curriculum, assessment, cultural instruction, professional development, and program evaluation. She was a member of the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for the K-12 Learners task force and served as a Senior Editor for the project. She also served on the Advisory Committee for the ACTFL Assessment for Performance and Proficiency of Languages (AAPPL). Peggy is a past president of the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Language Education.

Rich Sayers has been involved in world languages education since 1978. He taught Spanish at Niwot High School in Longmont, Colorado, for 18 years, where he taught levels 1 through AP Spanish. While at Niwot High School, Rich served as department chair, district foreign language coordinator, and board member of the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers and the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching. In 1991, Rich was selected as one of the Disney Company’s Foreign Language Teacher Honorees for the American Teacher Awards. Rich has served as a world languages consultant for Savvas since 1996.