So happy you have opened up this issue of rhyming and alliteration as I personally disagree with it. My experience in the bilingual literacy field, I have seen no gain at all in making children practise rhymes and alliteration, as the result is: the children who were not able to rhyme were perfectly...

I have been teaching bilingual phonics (English/Spanish, and Portuguese) for at least 10 years now, and have sound evidence to state that the knowledge of both the alphabetic codes, is helpful and very important. Children relate naturally the sounds/phonemes of their mother tongue to the second one....

Multi-cueing and mixed methods and so on and so forth have really damaged and delayed the whole reading and writing process not only in the English speaking countries but its influence is in Spanish speaking countries too. In Argentina, when the "tsunami" of the whole language approach hit...