Twenty-One Days of First Grade Spanish Dual Language Immersion: A Nurturing Mathematics and Linguistics Incubation

Abstract

Analogous to a 21-day incubation period of a chick, four mathematics and linguistics practices are employed as a framework in a first grade Dual Language Immersion classroom. These practices include: 1) Concrete-Representational-Abstract instructional sequences, 2) Receptive and Productive Language Modalities, 3) Gradual Release of Responsibility, and 4) Number Representations and Subitizing. The article illustrates how the framework can be implemented by offering details about mathematics and management routines and examples of formal mathematics instruction.