What works for teaching students to read in English may be unnecessary for beginning readers in Spanish, shows the study "How important is teaching phonemic awareness to children learning to read in Spanish?" by Stanford Professor Claude Goldenberg and colleagues, to be published in American Educational Research Journal.

“The study shows that Spanish-speaking students achieved reading comprehension in Spanish without such instruction, raising questions about the approach being used to teach a growing number of Spanish-speaking children in the United States to read in Spanish.”

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