Salsa

Series

Salsa

42 episodes

Salsa is Georgia Public Broadcasting's Emmy-winning Spanish-language series for kindergarten through third grade. Using puppets, animation, and a warm recurring cast, each 15-minute segment retells a familiar folk tale -- Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Little Red Hen -- entirely in Spanish, so children who already know the story can follow the pictures and pick up the language along the way. The show mixes gentle comedy, songs, and everyday vocabulary (colors, numbers, food, manners) with recurring characters like Niña, the bumbling Wolf, the color-shy Monster, and Salsa the parrot. Unit 1 runs thirty segments, free to stream on GPB's education site with a support-materials packet for each episode. A natural fit for dual-language, beginning-Spanish, and folk-tale units.

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what this series covers

What Salsa covers

42 episodes in the library, tagged for K–3rd. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA). Between them they line up with 9 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

K
14
1st
42
2nd
42
3rd
28

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA)
42

Common Core — ELA 9

  • RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • RL.2.3Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
  • RL.2.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
  • RL.K.3With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • RL.1.2Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
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  • RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • RL.2.9Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
  • RL.2.5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

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