Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ640711
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-6115
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Supporting Preliterate Older Emergent Readers in Becoming Bilingual and Biliterate.
Mercuri, Sandra
Talking Points, v12 n1 p8-13 Oct-Nov 2000
Describes a bilingual Spanish/English teacher's grade 4/5/6 students, many of whom are children from migrant families with little or no formal schooling. Notes that classroom routines are helpful for these students. Describes an agriculturally-themed unit that draws on students' prior knowledge and that presents concepts they may have missed in previous years of limited schooling. (RS)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy, Intermediate Grades, Literacy, Low Achievement, Migrant Children, Migrant Education, Prior Learning, Units of Study
The Whole Language Umbrella, a conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Web site: http://www.ncte.org/tp/index.shtml.
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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