Explore a practical approach to developing students' writing in Spanish and English within a biliteracy framework.
Purchase the bookExplore the purpose, key features, and instructional practices that support our approach to biliteracy.
Lotta Lara is a biliterate reading strategy developed in the Literacy Squared® Project to promote reading fluency, comprehension, and oracy skills in both Spanish and English.
Literacy Squared® created this six-part webinar series to help bilingual educators approach phonics, phonemic awareness, and word work in kindergarten and first grade. Literacy Squared® is a trademarked and copyrighted program. No part of these videos may be reproduced, published, or broadcast without prior written permission from Literacy Squared.
Explains the place of phonics, phonemic awareness, and word work within the Literacy Squared Framework, including paired literacy, cross-language connections, the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing, and the gradual release of responsibility.
Provides an overview of the theoretical framework for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, and word work within Literacy Squared, including a whole-part-whole approach, universal aspects of literacy, and three ways of experiencing print.
Shares ways to plan for phonics, phonemic awareness, and word work instruction.
Shares concrete examples of how to embed letter-sound relationships and word work into Literacy Squared lessons.
Shares a concrete example of how to embed phonics and word work in Literacy-Based ELD.
Discusses the importance of cross-language connections for explicitly teaching the similarities and differences between Spanish and English.
