FRESCO CURRICULUM
Introducing Mango's Fresh Take on Spanish Curriculum
“This is much better than other programs that I’ve seen by far.”
An Innovative, Digital-First Approach
Fresco is a cutting-edge program that complements Mango’s award-winning language software with more opportunities for meaningful, real-world language learning. With structured lesson plans, authentic resources, and communicative and culturally-oriented activities that integrate the 5Cs, this curriculum supports students on their journey to language proficiency.
What Educators Are Saying
“It feels very teacher friendly as far as the lesson plans, the pacing guides all of that. When I was looking through the lessons, I understood what I would need to do to be ready to teach it tomorrow.”
"This is such a time saver not having to go out and look for [authentic resources]. The thing that I'm most excited about is the authentic resources and the way they're utilized within the lessons."
"The holistic rubrics are awesome because not only do they help the teacher, but they help the students stay on track, and show them expectations for learning outcomes.”
A Comprehensive 4-Year Progression
Fresco follows a four-year structure, taking students from Novice Low to Intermediate High proficiency levels, and is suitable for middle school, high school, and college. Each level builds upon previous knowledge, integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while reinforcing cultural understanding and real-world applications.
“I've especially liked the high number of authentic resources. I've even used some of them myself! I put all those hours of work into finding these resources myself, because there wasn't anything like that before… So that's amazing!”
Take a closer look at Fresco:
Key Activity Types
- Communication-Focused Activities
- Comprehensible Input
- Culturally-Focused Activities
- Authentic Materials
- Interdisciplinary Connections
- Project-Based Learning
- Integrated Performance Assessments
Communication-Focused Activities:
Opportunities to practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes
Comprehensible Input:
Strategically scaffolded activities push learners to go beyond their comfort zones
Culturally-Focused Activities:
Language learning situated in engaging cultural explorations and cross-cultural comparisons
Authentic Materials:
Carefully curated real-world content created by native speakers
Interdisciplinary Connections:
Explorations of academic content areas through Spanish
Project-Based Learning:
Meaningful projects encourage deeper understanding and personal connections
Integrated Performance Assessments:
Thematically-aligned tasks to assess the three modes of communication
Compatible with leading school technologies and fully compliant with federal and state privacy regulations.
Mango Classroom is compliant with COPPA and FERPA, and is compatible with leading school technologies like Clever, Canvas, and ClassLink.
Out of the box, into the classroom
Built for teachers, by teachers. Designed to make your job easier. Fresco offers time-saving resources to help teachers easily integrate content into in-person, virtual, flipped, or hybrid classrooms. Teacher tools include:
Pacing Guides
Detailed Lesson Plans
Ready-to-use slides
Bloom’s, DOK, and ACTFL standards tags on activities
Suggested modifications for differentiated learning
Customized onboarding
Dedicated account manager
Professional development
“I can read through the lesson plan the day before and say, ‘Yup, here are my slides and, yup, here's the link that I'm going to post for the students.”
Ready to Bring Fresco to Your Classroom?
Get a firsthand look at how Fresco Spanish Curriculum works in the classroom with a downloadable sample chapter and accompanying teacher resources.
