Dual Language
Shoreline’s Dual Language Program serves native speakers of Spanish and English at Briarcrest Elementary School and Kellogg Middle School. The three goals for all participating students are:
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
- High academic achievement
- Cross-cultural understanding
In order to achieve these goals, our program includes the following features:
- Each classroom will have an equal number of students whose primary languages are English or Spanish
- Students will work together in cooperative groups and with their “bilingual buddy”
- Teachers will teach solely in the designated language of that class with no translation
- In younger grades, 80% of the day's instruction will be in Spanish, 20% in Engilsh
- By 3rd grade, 50% of each day will be taught in Spanish and the other 50% in English
- Students will be taught to develop bridges between what they have learned in one language for use in their second language
- Ongoing language acquisition and academic assessment to determine student needs will be performed in both languages
- Content will be taught through enriched education