What is The Bridge?
The instructional moment in teaching for biliteracy when a teacher brings the two languages together, guiding students to actively engage in a contrastive analysis of two languages by visually placing them side by side. Students transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other language.
Exemplar Videos
Step 1: Introduce key vocabulary, with images and TPR, in Language of Instruction
Step 2: Create chart with key vocabulary, with images, in Language of Instruction
Step 3: The Bridge for Transfer - Practice the key vocabulary in the partner language at least two times during the unit, include images and TPR
Step 4: The Bridge for Transfer - Add vocabulary terms, in the partner language, to the chart created in Step 2
Step 5: The Bridge for Contrastive Analysis
Step 6: The Bridge for Transfer & Practice
