This presentation examines parallels between Common Core English/Spanish Language Arts Standards, California ELD/SLD Standards, and the Mexico National Reading Program. We examine how a theoretical framework emphasizing students’ communicative competence is articulated in Mexico and the U.S. We provide instructional examples in Mexican classrooms that promote collaborative student learning, from a mixed method research study. We then present purposeful communicative tasks which support language development and content learning in bilingual classrooms, using online access to MoraModules.
Jill Kerper Mora is Associate Professor Emerita from the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. Dr. Mora’s career as a biliteracy educator began in Texas where she was an elementary bilingual teacher, a secondary Spanish teacher at a Catholic middle school. She... Read More →
