Descubriendo La Lectura: an application of Reading Recovery in Spanish.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Escamilla, Kathy; Andrade, Ana Maria
- Source
- Education & Urban Society; February 1992, Vol. 24, p212-226, 15p
- Subject
- Elementary education
Education of slow learning children
Spanish-speaking students
Reading Recovery program
Linguistic minorities
Literacy
United States
- Language
- ISSN
- 00131245
Reports that a large body of education research has concluded that for language minority students in the United States, the optimal instructional programs begin by developing cognitive and academic skills in the students' first language. What such research has fostered; Problems experienced by language minority students in need of remediation; Programs developed with that logic in mind; Testing of these programs.