Tag: Spanish
Tools for Teaching Transfer between Spanish and English
Sound–Spelling Transfer Kits are now being used in...
Seesaw Adds Spanish
Leading learning development platform Seesaw has launched an innovative expansion of its supplemental curriculum to include content in Spanish. With 70% of English learners...
Spain’s Queen Celebrates Spanish Growth in US
Spain’s Queen Letizia was in Los Angeles last month, not only to inaugurate the West Coast’s first branch of the Cervantes Institute but also...
Cuéntame: Meg Medina named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Award-winning Cuban-American author Meg Medina has today been announced as the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Notable for her Merci Suárez...
Spanish Controversies in the US
Political Misinformation
During last month’s midterm elections, misinformation and conspiracy theories were circulating among Spanish-speaking communities, especially in South Florida, raising fears that they could...
Can Teaching English Like Spanish Close the Achievement Gap?
If you have even a passing knowledge of Spanish, you know the ns in montaña are different. You can see it. But English isn’t...
Spanish Grows to 500 million Native Speakers
According to the newly-released Cervantes Institute’s 2022 yearbook Spanish in the World, the number of native Spanish speakers has risen to nearly 500 million...
Supporting Early Literacy in Spanish and English
Building early literacy skills is imperative for all students, especially the five million English learners (ELs) being educated in today’s public schools.1 The mastery...