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Literacy Program Off to Good Start
Gainesville Times (FL)
Four weeks into the school year, 60 students are already becoming bilingual. At the Hall County Early Language Development Center, four classes of kindergartners are learning half of the day in English and half of the day in Spanish. "The basis here is that children learn English faster if they're literate in their first language," said Lois Myers, who heads up the new center and is principal at Lyman Hall Elementary School. The four teachers — two English and two Spanish — pair up with 30 students to teach reading and math objectives in English and Spanish each day. The science and social studies objectives are included in the reading portions of the day.
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