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Poet Francisco Alarcón

Bilingual Poet Francisco Alarcón helps a group of third-grade students tap into their dreams and write poetry.

Visuals

Shana Sterkin uses technology to create and share visuals that accompany vocabulary terms.

Poet Francisco Alarcón

Bilingual Poet Francisco Alarcón helps a group of third-grade students tap into their dreams and write poetry.

Making text-to-text connections

Ali explains the way she used a Venn diagram to help her students compare “Burro’s Tortillas” and “The Little Red Hen.”

Two Languages at a Time

Ms. Gonsalves gives equal time to both her native English and native Spanish speakers in her classroom at Webster Elementary in Long Beach, California.

Being bilingual

Francisco Alarcón learned Spanish and then English.

Interactive reading of a story

Albuquerque teacher Ali Nava leads her students through an interactive reading of the end of Burro’s Tortillas.

New Kid in Town

Watch as the Arlington Public Schools Intake Center in Arlington, VA helps place kids like eight-year-old Marlon, a new student from Honduras, in the right classroom.