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Guzmán, Remedios; de León, Sara C.; González, Desirée; Jiménez, Juan E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to explore instructional practices used to teach words with irregular spelling patterns by Spanish-speaking teachers in 2nd and 3rd grade of elementary school. A sample of 320 teachers from Guatemala, Ecuador, and Spain answered an online survey, which included the Spelling Instructional Practices Scale. Item Response Theory and…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Spelling, Spanish
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Baker, Doris Luft; Azcarrága, Maribel Granada; Correa, María Pilar Pomes; Lepe-Martinez, Nancy; Smolkowski, Keith – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
This study explores the effects of a Spanish vocabulary intervention on the literacy outcomes of students at risk for vocabulary difficulties in Chile. We screened 2nd-grade students (N = 84) with a standardized Spanish vocabulary measure. We then randomly assigned students who scored below the 40th percentile (n = 30) to an intervention or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Intervention
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Fitzgerald, Jill; Amendum, Steven J.; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Garcia, Sandra G. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
The present study investigated whether young Latino dual-language learners' 2-year English reading growth varied over time according to their initial overall oral English ability. We followed 41 Latino children for 2 years. We tested overall oral English at the beginning of the study and administered multiple curriculum-based reading assessments…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, English (Second Language), Reading Skills, Language Skills