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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Spanish 2A: Intermediate Spanish (2026)
Christina Moon · Chabot College
Beginning Spanish 2A is the first half of a comprehensive intermediate Spanish sequence, providing guidance and practice in reading, writing, listening to, and speaking Spanish. Each module includes thematic vocabulary, sequenced grammar instruction, numerous self-check drills and exercises, open-form communicative activities, scaffolded writing assignments, and reading passages exploring various aspects of life, culture, literature, and film in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Entrada Libre 2e
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon, and Hugo Díaz-Rodil · OERI
Entrada Libre 2.0 is an intermediate/advanced college-level Spanish OER grammar manual for second language learners and heritage speakers of Spanish at the community college level. Instructors will be able to download the entire manual or use the OER Remixer from LibreTexts to adapt, edit, and customize content and publish it in their LMS.
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Conventions 101: A Functional Approach to Teaching (and Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation
Chauna Ramsey · Columbia Gorge Community College
This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It's flexible, functional, and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types, from the eternal "there/they're/their" struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging.
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Yo puedo: segundos pasos
Elizabeth Silvaggio-Adams and Ma. Del Rocío Vallejo-Alegre · SUNY Geneseo
As you begin the equivalent of a second semester Spanish course with these materials, some of you might think about how long it has been since you studied Spanish while others may come to the class with some background knowledge. We want you to know this book has been designed with many types of learners in mind. Our goals were to address the need for students to achieve the ability to communicate in written and spoken form.
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Concordia University Chicago
LibreTexts
LibreTexts
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Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada
John Belshaw, Sarah Nickel, and Chelsea Horton · LibreTexts
Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada was conceived in 2016 as material in support of a new 3rd-year History course at Thompson Rivers University – Open Learning. The need for such an online course was underlined with the release of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015. In the process of developing the curriculum, it was decided that the part you see here could be shared as a stand-alone Open Educational Resource (OER) in the form of an open textbook.
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Français 101
William J. Carrasco & Shahrzad Zahedi · Palomar College
This text is designed for the first semester of French. This elementary level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. Course combines in-class instruction and practice with self-paced study in the Language Laboratory. This beginning-level course is for students with no previous coursework in French.
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5.13.17: Sean Hill's "Distance Between Desires" (2013)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Writing for Success
LibreTexts
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning.
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Communication Beginnings - An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Della Jean Abrahams · Portland State University
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
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Critical Reading, Critical Writing
Howard Community College · LibreTexts
Curated and/or composed by the English Faculty at Howard Community College
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Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading
Jessica Miller · Los Angeles Harbor College
World Literature I: Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading introduces major works from ancient civilizations through the Renaissance while developing students’ skills in close reading, literary analysis, academic writing, and cross-cultural interpretation.
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Business Writing for Everyday Use
HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
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Spanish (Entrada Libre)
Nancy Ballesteros, Alejandro Lee,\and Cristina Moon · LibreTexts
Entrada libre is an OER second-year Spanish grammar manual for second language learners and heritage speakers of Spanish at the community college level. The manual consists of eight chapters: four chapters for 3rd semester four chapters for 4th semester. Each chapter will include 3 grammar topics. Each grammar point will have a reading, grammar explanation, and self-graded follow-up activities.
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Western Civilization - A Concise History III
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
This volume covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.
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The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
Jo Heirman and Jacqueline Klooster · LibreTexts
This volume presents a number of essays on the ideological role of space in literary texts. The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies.
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Tiny Tales from Africa: The Animals I (Gibbs)
Laura Gibbs · University of Oklahoma
Welcome to Tiny Tales from Africa: The Animals (volume 1). This is a collection of two hundred stories from Africa featuring animal characters, and each story is just 100 words long.
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Power and Pitfalls
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
Rhetoric can be a powerful tool. In this section, we examine the ways that words can motivate and persuade others.
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The Information Literacy Users Guide
Bernnard et al. · SUNY
The Information Literacy User's Guide introduces students to critical concepts of information literacy as defined for the information-infused and technology-rich environment in which they find themselves. This book helps students examine their roles as information creators and sharers and enables them to more effectively deploy related skills. This textbook includes relatable case studies and scenarios, many hands-on exercises, and interactive quizzes.
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Let's Get Writing
Elizabeth Browning, Kirsten DeVries, Kathy Boylan, Jenifer Kurtz, and Katelyn Burton · Virginia Western Community College
This introduction is designed to exemplify how writers think about and produce text. The guiding features are the following: (1) Every good piece of writing is an argument. (2) Everything worth writing and reading begins with a specific question. (3) Improving skills takes practice, feedback, and re-thinking, redoing, revising.