Cuaderno de actividades, a student workbook/lab manual, featuring twelve chapters with additional practice activities in all skills. The Cuaderno includes authentic readings from periodical and literary sources, exercises focusing on vocabulary and grammar, and integrative real-life writing tasks. Open-ended writing tasks are coordinated to Atajo: Writing Assistant for Spanish software. Literary selections include poems and short stories by authors such as Enrique Anderson Imbert, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Gloria Fuertes, Ana Maria Matute, Luis Cane, and Jorge Luis Borges. Workbook Audio CDs provide further listening activities and pronunciation practice.