Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action

by Kathy Escamilla, Susan Hopewell, Sandra Butvilofsky

Biliteracy from the Literacy Squared in Action shows bilingual education teachers, administrators, and leadership teams how to plan, implement, monitor, and strengthen biliteracy instruction that builds on students’ linguistic resources in two languages, beginning in kindergarten. Escamilla and her team present a holistic biliteracy framework that is at the heart of their action-oriented Literacy Squared school-based project. Teachers learn to develop holistic biliteracy instruction units, lesson plans, and assessments that place Spanish and English side by side. Educators also learn to teach to students’ potential within empirically based, scaffolded, biliteracy zones and to support emerging bilinguals' trajectories toward biliteracy.
Foreword by Ofelia García.
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Genres: Education, Teaching

200 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2013

Reviews

[Nancy Lewis]

Very informational for dual programs.