The Spanish for Children and Parents, Grammar and Exercise Manual, Level 1, which accompanies the text, reinforces Spanish language acquisition with various kinds of exercises and activities. These include matching words, filling in blanks to complete dialogue, coloring, locating countries and cities on a map, crossword puzzles, and listening input.

Although the text contains units centered on grammar structures, the Manual has more consistent, albeit simple, explanations of basic rules, which help parents and older children understand the way the language works.

Included in the Manual are:
a) Listening exercises, always necessary to develop auditory comprehension and conversational Spanish, for practice together with the CD;

b) The Answer Key.  This feature is very important because it enables parents and children working in a Spanish home school setting to check their answers to each exercise.