New and coming soon CI readers at CPLI

May 4, 2025

I am in Costa Rica right now updating the Teacher's Guide for Isabela captura un Congo and re-editing a book for my adult language classes with what has changed in 10 years. I'm taking video of howler monkeys and going to a "Tope" (there are horses) and listening to live music and watching the sunsets. At this very moment I can hear birds and howler monkey papas moving their troops from tree to tree with deep-throated loud howls.

I remember how much I loved writing this book and how the drive to write it was overwhelming and inspiring. A howler monkey fell from an electrical wire right above us. I wrote about what the people were doing to solve the problem.

Wednesday I saw the solved problem -- a problem solved by the people here in Playa Hermosa -- and I video recorded a howler monkey using that solution.

New Comprehensible Readers for Language Students

How do we make books come alive for our students? How do we help them to see pictures in their heads while they read so stories become entertainment and escape to faraway lands?

If you struggle with these same questions, I'd recommend attending the #CIreboot this summer to get ideas from a lot of teachers who have found the secret sauce. I would also recommend.... reading. Once you fall in love with a story it's so much easier to sell your students on checking it out.

#CIREBOOT, $169, $20 off with coupon code by following any presenter and using their #CIREBOOT

If you have the CD-Rom of the Teacher's Guide for Isabela Captura un Congo, let us know that you'd like access to the online version that is being updated with all of these new videos and photos by emailing us. info AT fluencyfast.com or post a photo with the CD-Rom and tag me in Facebook.

Karen Rowan

Here are some of the brand new books from Command Performance you may want to try out, and I highly recommend:

Two books on Arepas from Venezuela and Colombia

https://cpli.net/products/arepas-y-arepas

Add Arroz con Cosas and La lección de Chocolate for a whole food unit!

Read the blog on Arepas and do the Arepa challenge!

Comment Faire le Buzz

Illustrated graphic choose your own adventure style book for level 1 in French

Rachel Emery

Soltar la Sopa, Theresa Jensen

(Spilling the Tea. It's hilarious and broken up into separate Reddit-style questions and comments.)

https://cpli.net/products/soltar-la-sopa-by-theresa-jensen

COMING SOON!

JUST ARRIVED

Available now! Completely updated!

BRAND NEW BOOK 5!

Bring music to the French classroom, too!

Here's an idea for grouping books together in a theme. Cumbia (1) and La Marimba de mi Abuelo (4), by Adriana Ramírez and Yo Sé Cómo Hacerlo (2/3) by Joan Soriano and Karen Rowan Con un poco de ayuda de mis amigos, Jennifer Degenhardt (2/3)

Acento Latino

Easy readers for Spanish students written by Latin American authors in their language

Downloadable

These are IMMEDIATE solutions. Blackline masters, downladable and copiable. Use them tomorrow as free reading or to teach to the whole class.

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