At the end of the 2025-26 school year, fresh-faced kindergarteners at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley practiced reading using small story books. They sounded out aloud in Spanish, like a disorganized, but undeniably impressive, chorus.
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“Lo..lo..la manzana!” “Esta es mi casa.”
At their own pace, students decoded the words on the pages, pulling apart the sounds and common parts, and then stringing them back together.
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