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Due
to socio-economic
status,
educational
attainment and all, it is
largely on the basis of
learning to have English
skills. It is already predetermined from Grade 1
for those who have
deficiency of this wont
succeed at all.
THE CHALLENGE
In
provides
an
easier access to reading
than English since it has
fewer
spelling
irregularities
Learning
to
read
a
language they know is
easier than learning to
read English, which they
know less well or not at all
(Modiano 1973)
The transfer of reading
skills from Spanish to
English is almost total,
and as a result the time it
The Method
The program is divided into
two phases:
Phase 1 concerned with
teaching the children to read
Spanish,
their
native
language.
Phase
2 consists of
teaching the preschoolers to
read in English once the
Spanish reading experience is
completed.
It
Sequence of Curriculum
Children learn by progressive familiarization
with the units and skills of reading of
reading through four basic steps:
1. Naming
2. Matching
3. Recognition
4. Reading
Interim Evaluation
SED Center Preschool Reading Project completed
its first year in August 1979
1. All of the 50 three, four and five-year-old
children learn to read (decode and comprehend)
some Spanish phase of the program.
2. Voluntary attendance was high
3. Parents reported they were encourages by the
results in the childrens reading program.
4. An informal telephone survey suggested that
childrens progress correlated highly with parent
home-use of the reading material
Implications
They expect 9 children graduating at that
Indications and
Recommendations
The concept of preschool biliteracy should be
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