Bilingual reading program mutual learning experience

Teaching also becomes a learning experience when Spanish Honor Society students at Glasgow High School volunteer to read in Spanish and English to young children during Bilingual Story Time at the Newark Free Library.

Library specialist Adriana Camacho-Church, who started the program at the library three years ago so young children could become bilingual, said she sees the older children benefiting with them, because it gives them an outlet to practice.

“They actually have to perform in front of these kids and read in both Spanish and English,” Camacho-Church said. “So these students are learning how to present themselves in front of an audience. It’s a good learning experience for them as well.”

Glasgow High’s Sierra Stevenson, who is in her third year of Spanish at the school, agrees

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