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ESTRELLITA NEWS

New Consumables!

Estrellita is now offering consumables of the Phonemic Awareness Homework Booklets from the "Games & Activities" component! Download the flyer for more information.

Estrellita Quick Facts

Uses of Estrellita

ESTRELLITA is an accelerated, systematic, explicit phonics program. It is currently being used in the following settings:

  • As an accelerated program in PreK, Kinder, and 1st grade bilingual classrooms
  • In Two-Way Dual Immersion classrooms with both Spanish and English-dominant children
  • In special education classes and in regular classes with at-risk children. Estrellita lends itself well to the at-risk child due to the structured nature of the program and the multitude of kinesthetic activities it provides.
  • Recent arrivals with limited schooling

Timelines

ESTRELLITA achieves the following timelines:

  • In first grade and above, it accelerates children through the decoding process in 6-8 weeks.
  • In Kindergarten, the program is used throughout the year, with many children learning to read mid-way through the year and more than 2/3 of the class able to read by the end of the year.
  • The Estrellita Early Literacy Program is used in Prekindergarten. Most children can be expected to master the sounds and some to decode simple words and sentences by the end of the year.

Bridge to English

ESTRELLITA serves as a bridge to English, by laying a strong foundation in the primary language that later leads to a more successful transition to English. Test results from many schools and districts indicate that children who have been through the Estrellita program in the primary grades are surpassing their English-only peers in English reading scores in later grades.

Adopted in Texas / California - Legal Compliance

Supplemental and Affordable

ESTRELLITA is an affordable, supplemental program, and as such, is intended to supplement, not supplant, the district's adopted reading series.

warning sign Estrellita Accelerated Beginning Spanish Reading is an educational reading program in Spanish for dominant Spanish speakers. It is intended to be used by educators in bilingual classrooms. It is not a program or method for teaching the general public how to speak Spanish. If you are interested in learning Spanish as a second language, check out the Web Spanish Pages by Tyler Jones. These are online Spanish lessons.