Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Learning English is a skill that takes a lot of practice —and its one Ana Ruano has been working to keep up since she retired. Ruano is one of a few participants in a new English reading and ...