This eight-volume final report of a federally-funded longitudinal study on the teaching of reading to bilingual children provides information on and insight into characteristics of a favorable learning environment for Spanish-speaking children, instructional sequences and events that promote successful and efficient learning of literacy skills, and the language and literacy outcomes of current schooling practices. The volumes deal with the following topics: (1) an introduction to and overview of the study; (2) a description of the study's design; (3) an outline of the analyses used to summarize patterns of growth in language skills, prereading skills, and reading comprehension, and to examine the link between instruction and achievement growth; (4) analyses of growth in oral language proficiency; (5) analyses of growth in reading skills; (6) data on the specific instructional techniques used in the classrooms studied; (7) a discussion of statistical techniques for integrating the findings on language, literacy, and instruction; and (8) the executive summary. (MSE)