SplicedStory

Meet Tin Bot, the best detective in the city, as he solves the mystery of who dognapped Senorita Margaret’s dog. This unique “spliced story” reader slowly immerses students into Spanish by telling the majority of the story in English, but inserting some Spanish words. These words appear in bold, fully conjugated, and are footnoted to translations appearing at the bottom of the page. Over 450 Spanish words appear in the book, covering nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. The story is interesting and funny, and cleverly throws in some technology humor. Black and white illustrations in a computer-generated, 3D style appear throughout the book.