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Spencer-Iiams, Jennifer W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The United States is experiencing an increase in young students developing literacy in English and Spanish. Schools providing dual-language English/Spanish instruction need technically adequate tools to assess reading skills in the languages of instruction, and interpretation of results needs to acknowledge the complexity of cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Spanish
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Gerzon-Kessler, Ari – Educational Horizons, 2006
In this article, the author relates her difficult experiences as a novice teacher when she started teaching bilingual third-graders in Spanish at Spangler Elementary School in 2002. She relates that her teaching strategy of balancing rigor and sweetness had its rewards as her students' rate of reading proficiency on the Colorado Student Assessment…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rewards, Emotional Intelligence, Academic Achievement