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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is just starting to read and in a Spanish-English dual language school, i.e., at the "reading with help" phase in PK4. The kid is balanced between the two languages (a first-language/home language Spanish speaker who swung way over to wanting to speak English ALL THE TIME). Spanish books are easier for the kid to handle as they are almost always phonetically workable. The English reading requires learning a lot more "sight words" because phonetically English spelling is totally medieval! (still spelled like bad middle French or Chaucer's English) However at that age learning sight words and word patterns is a lot of what they are doing in both languages. The kid is doing fine in reading books in both languages. I think the main issues are in not neglecting one language or the other, or if one language gets no support outside the classroom.[/quote]
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