It is essential that we learn how to organize standards-based foundational skills and language instruction for explicit teaching of Spanish and English skill transfer. Interactive strategies that promote cross-linguistic transfer and promote metalinguistic skills will be showcased. Assessment protocols for monitoring progress towards biliteracy will be demonstrated. Transfer routines and strategies that can be immediately implemented be showcased. We will also discuss using these methodologies for upper grade primary students and newcomers.
Jorge Cuevas Antillón is a well-known voice on effective language learning. His capacity to serve schools and districts comes from decades in education, as a teacher, reading coach, school/district administrator and educational grant writer and manager. As the District Advisor for... Read More →
National Biliteracy Consultant, National Biliteracy Consultant, Author
Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes is well known for her contributions in the areas of curriculum design, ELD, Spanish Language Arts, Professional Development and Parent Involvement.Her area of expertise is biliteracy with a focus on academic writing and the organization of instruction for... Read More →
