Libros en Mano: Phonological Awareness Intervention in Children's Native Languages

This study investigated how a phonologically based emergent literacy intervention provided in Spanish to four English language learners (ELs) in preschool whose native language was Spanish, affected their emergent literacy and phonological awareness skills in both English and Spanish. The findings showed all four children increased their overall emergent literacy and phonological awareness skills in both languages after only four weeks of intervention. Although the study had a small sample and short duration, it offers evidence that interventions in Spanish can lead to positive outcomes in emergent literacy skills in both Spanish and English.