The students at Vose Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon, were receiving intense English literacy skills during the school day. Jenessa Craig, an AmeriCorps member with Partnerships for Student Achievement, did not want to overlook the valuable native language skills of the schools' English as a Second Language students. She started an after-school biliteracy program, which provided literacy activities to native Spanish speakers in Spanish. This paper won second place in the 1999 Northwest National Service Symposium, hosted by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL).

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