If you wait until third grade to teach English reading, arent students going to be behind in reading?
No, reading only has to be taught once. Since they all learn to read in Spanish, we are very careful to make sure they are all on grade level in Spanish reading are fluent in English by third grade. At that time the transfer is a simple one. We teach the differences in reading the two languages and students have no problems reading at grade level. The area they have to do a little extra work on is spelling but this comes with practice.
