The English for Spanish Speakers Series
Build a strong English foundation from beginner to intermediate with your choice of full immersion (Step by Step) or guided bilingual support (Paso a Paso)!
Created by: Elizabeth Weal
About the Books
Master English Grammar: The Step by Step & Paso a Paso Series
Discover the perfect path to English fluency with this four-book grammar series, specially designed for adult Spanish-speaking learners with little to no prior grammar knowledge. Taking you from absolute beginner to low-intermediate mastery, you can choose the approach that best fits your learning style: Paso a Paso (Levels 1 & 2) provides clear instructions and explanations in Spanish with practice in English, while Step by Step (Levels 1 & 2) offers a fully immersive, English-only experience.
How the Levels Work:
- Level 1 (Fundamentals): Builds a rock-solid foundation by covering basic punctuation, capitalization, the verbs to be and to have, contractions, articles (a, an, the), and possessive adjectives.
- Level 2 (Expanding Skills): Continues your steady progression by tackling the simple present and present progressive tenses, question formation, prepositions, and there is/there are in everyday contexts.
Key Features Across the Series:
- Intuitive Layout: Explanations and modeled examples live on the left-hand page, with immediate, targeted practice on the right.
- Massive Practice: Over 1,000 exercises per book—including fill-in-the-blanks, word unscrambles, and reading comprehension—ensuring a clear progression from recognition to active production.
- Built-in Support: Every book includes chapter summaries, three-page review tests, a complete answer key, and a bilingual dictionary featuring the meanings and pronunciations of every word used in the text.
- Educator Resources: Teachers can access a free, downloadable Teacher’s Manual packed with communicative activities, reproducible pages, and listening/dictation exercises to bring grammar into the real world.
Whether you are studying independently, working with a tutor, or learning in a classroom, this series pays careful attention to Spanish-English contrasts to help you avoid common errors and build lasting confidence—step by step!
Free Resources
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 1 – Download free Teachers’ Guide
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 2 – Download free Teachers’ Guide
- English Grammar: Step by Step 1 – Download free Teachers’ Guide
- English Grammar: Step by Step 2 – Download free Teachers’ Guide
Sample Materials
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 1 – Download the: Índice & Lección de muestra.
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 2 – Download the: Índice & Lección de muestra.
- English Grammar: Step by Step 1 – Download the:
- English Grammar: Step by Step 2 – Download the:
ISBN
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 1 – 9780979612862
- Gramática del inglés: Paso a paso 2 – 9780979612886
- English Grammar: Step by Step 1 – 9780979612879
- English Grammar: Step by Step 2 – 9780979612893
More from Elizabeth Weal
Elizabeth Weal, author of the English Grammar: Step by Step series, is an ESL teacher in Redwood City, CA. Most of her students are from Latin America. When she found that there was no easy book that explained English grammar in simple, easy-to-follow language, she wrote this series to address that important need.
She is also the author of Writing in English: Step by Step, published by Pro Lingua Learning.