Teaching Reading in Spanish A Linguistically Authentic Framework for Emerging Multilinguals is an essential teacher instructional guide to developmental biliteracy. It provides a comprehensive reading framework for teachers who teach students to read Spanish in K12 dual language and bilingual programs. Anchored in assetbased pedagogy this framework applies a systematic Spanish literacy approach to biliteracy by weaving together a tapestry of relevant instructional components including phonemic and phonological awareness oracy decoding background knowledge vocabulary language structures verbal reasoning and literacy knowledge.What sets this Spanish developmental literacy framework apart is its approach to Spanish reading instruction that is based on linguisticallyauthentic pedagogy not on Englishlanguage practices. Teaching Reading in Spanish includes the DCC Leveling Instrument a standardsbased practical instructional tool that guides teachers through the process of efficiently and accurately determining the reading levels of authentic Spanish text. DCC Lectura provides teachers with the tools that they need to guide their students to become skilled readers through appropriately challenging books that act as multicultural mirrors windows and slidingglass doors.