Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the kindergarten, first-, and second-grade
predictors of reading comprehension in bilingual children. Specifically, we evaluated the …

… and to include 3-year-olds, thus enlarging the comparison database. Also, the majority of
the bilingual children in this study used one dialect of Spanish: Puerto Rican Spanish. The …

… Spanish-dominant bilingual students in grades 2-5 were tutored 3 times per week for 40
min… bilingual third graders. The strategy of identifying and using cognates is also important for …

… and students' vocabulary and comprehension in grades 3–5. … English monolingual and
Spanish–English bilingual students. … during an academic year, and we assessed 274 students on …

… much better than control students on both scales. Also, BCIRC third graders met criteria
for exit from bilingual education at a significantly higher rate than did comparison students. …

… among a sample of second, third, and fourth grade English monolingual and Spanish–… in
their work with 203 third grade students from predominantly English language backgrounds. …

… reading comprehension among second and third grade children. Thus, the … Third, our study
included a relatively homogenous sample of bilingual students in that they were all Spanish…

… English phonological skills of 27 TD 3-year-old Spanish—English bilingual children at
the end of the school year … of 14 TD 3-year-old monolingual English speakers and 6 TD 3-year-old …

… studies of bilingualism and building our knowledge of bilingual … kindergarten and kindergarten
age bilingual children. This will … of first exposure to English (Figure 3). Table 2 shows the …

… English (their L2) language development; second, we intended to answer if treatment students
would outperform control students in Spanish … to conclude that the ELL students who were …