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Trisha H. Borman; Geoffrey D. Borman; So Jung Park; Bo Zhu; Scott Houghton – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We present findings across three randomized trials of "Descubriendo la Lectura" (DLL), an intervention designed to improve literacy skills of Spanish-speaking first graders struggling with reading. DLL is a one-to-one Spanish-language literacy program lasting 12-20 weeks offered to a school's lowest performing emerging bilingual first…
Descriptors: Literacy, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Spanish
Borman, Trisha H.; Borman, Geoffrey D.; Houghton, Scott; Park, So Jung; Zhu, Bo; Martin, Alejandra; Wilkinson-Flicker, Sidney – AERA Open, 2019
Given the growing number of Latino English learners and the lack of evidence-based educational opportunities they are provided, we investigated the impact of one potentially effective literacy intervention that targets struggling first-grade Spanish-speaking students: Descubriendo La Lectura (DLL). DLL provides first-grade Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners
Borman, Trisha H.; Borman, Geoffrey D.; Houghton, Scott; Park, So Jung; Zhu, Bo; Martin, Alejandra; Wilkinson-Flicker, Sidney – Grantee Submission, 2019
Given the growing number of Latino English learners and the lack of evidence-based educational opportunities they are provided, we investigated the impact of one potentially effective literacy intervention that targets struggling first-grade Spanish-speaking students: Descubriendo La Lectura (DLL). DLL provides first-grade Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners
Weber, Christina J. T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading fluency has been an area of struggle for students. Certain populations of students, such as English language learners (ELLs), have struggled even more so, affecting their overall achievement. Interventions have been implemented and studied regarding the reading fluency of ELLs, yet reading fluency has continued to be problematic in this…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Qualitative Research

Hudelson, Sarah – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The study investigated the phenomenon of invented spelling in the original composition of 10 first grade and 10 second grade native Spanish speaking children enrolled in a bilingual program. From an examination of over 200 pieces of writing, categories of spelling have been suggested and examples of each are given. (Author/NQA)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Graphemes

Andrade, Ana Maria; Hakim, Delia – Educational Leadership, 1995
Using play learning and real-world problem solving, an alternative Arizona program is cultivating confidence and love of learning in bilingual first-graders. Children learn by using their own language (Spanish), learning styles, and thought processes. Besides problem-solving, the "cube train" teaches estimation, number relationships,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Grade 1, Learning Activities, Mathematical Concepts
Escamilla, Kathy; And Others – 1993
During the 1989-90 school year, Descubriendo la Lectura, a Spanish-language adaptation of the English Reading Recovery project was implemented in a large urban school district in Arizona. The program is designed to identify first-grade students at risk of becoming poor readers and to provide a series of intense short-term learning experiences that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language)