Trisha Borman|Geoffrey D. Borman|Scott Houghton|Soo?Young Park|Bo Zhu|Anne F. Martin|Sidney Wilkinson-Flicker
Addressing Literacy Needs of Struggling Spanish-Speaking First Graders: First-Year Results From a National Randomized Controlled Trial of Descubriendo la Lectura
American Institutes for Research|University of Wisconsin–Madison|American Institutes for Research
given growing number latino english learners lack evidencebased educational opportunities provided investigated impact one potentially effective literacy intervention targets struggling firstgrade spanishspeaking students descubriendo la lectura dll dll provides firstgrade spanishspeaking students oneonone literacy instruction native language implemented individualized pace approximately 12 20 weeks trained bilingual teachers using multisite multicohort studentlevel randomized controlled trial examined impact dll spanish english literacy skills article report findings first three cohorts students participate study analyses outcomes indicate treated students outperformed control students 11 spanish literacy assessments statistically significant effect sizes ranging 034 106 analyses outcomes four english literacy assessments yielded positive effect sizes though none statistically significant