Biliteracy from the Start
Subtitle: Literacy Squared in Action
Publisher: Caslon, Inc.; Caslon Publishing; Brookes Pub
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781934000137
Subjects: Bilingualism; Literacy; Language acquisition; Education, bilingual
Description: Biliteracy from the Start: 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. --