Las Vegas elementary schools expand Spanish-English immersion to boost student success
A group of Robert E. Lake Elementary School kindergartners were practicing vowel sounds using words beyond the basic “cat” or “hat.”
The children called out “escalera,” “elefante,” “elote” and “escoba” — or, in English, ladder, elephant, corn, broom. They weren’t learning vocabulary words in Spanish just for novelty’s sake.
They’re students in an opt-in, dual-language immersion program that educators hope will make them not just bilingual but biliterate by the time they advance to middle school — making them competitive in a global economy and enriching their academic achievement in English…
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