What Mamá Gallina Can Teach Literacy Educators about Healing Biliteracies.
In this Action & Learning article, we describe the connections between the popular Spanish nursery song "Los pollitos dicen" (The Little Chicks Say) and Aesop's fable's "The Fox and Hen" with the literacy teaching of bilingual Latinx students. In this metaphor, the bilingual teachers represent the M...
| Publicado en: | Reading Teacher Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 289 - 300 |
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