The Rollins Center for Language & Literacy partners with Georgia’s Department of Early Care and Learning to support the Bilingual Summer Transition Program (STP) for rising Spanish-speaking Pre-K children.
Through a planned language approach, monolingual and bilingual teachers integrate the strategic use of Spanish and additional supports to support early language and literacy development. Exposure to a bilingual learning environment represents a net linguistic gain for young preschool dual language learners: they maintain and develop their first language while acquiring English skills.
We’ve collected the essential tools and resources for the Bilingual Rising PreK program here. Each week the curriculum is anchored around a focus book. The focus books connect to a series of relevant inquiry questions: Who am I? Why am I special? Who is special to me? How can I thrive when things are new and different?
Curriculum Resources by Anchor Book
(Recursos curriculares de los libros ancla)
Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martinez-Neal
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All Are Welcome
by Alexandra Penfold
and Suzanne Kaufman
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Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match
by Monica Brown
and Sara Palacios
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Lola goes to School
by Anna McQuinn
and Rosalind Beardshaw
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Strictly No Elephants
by Lisa Mantchev, Taeeun Yoo , et al.
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The One Day House
by Julia Durango
and Bianca Diaz
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What Can You Do With a Rebozo
by Carmen Tafolla
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