Biliterate Reading Trajectory

Have you ever heard the terms “Biliterate Reading Zones” and “Biliterate Reading Trajectory”?

Literacy Squared team has developed, after years of research, a holistic view of bilingualism that proves that emerging bilingual students use their knowledge of both languages and cultures to develop literacy in both languages. The authors of this interesting research use EDL2 and DRA2 as diagnostic measures to create a “trajectory of biliterate reading”. This trajectory gives us information about the level of reading of the emerging bilingual students in their first language and which would be the expected level of reading in English. This information is very useful to plan instruction and grouping in the classroom.

Biliterate Reading Zones

EDL2 LEVEL (Spanish)	DRA2 LEVEL (English)
A – 3	A – 3 (exposure)
4 – 6	A – 3
8 – 10	4 – 6
12 – 16	8 – 10
18 – 28	12 – 16
30 – 38	18 – 28
40	30 – 38
50 - 60	40+