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When developing TX-KEA, the Spanish tasks were piloted and validated by teachers in bilingual or Spanish-speaking classrooms across Texas. In our validity studies, we found that syllable blending items alone were relatively easy for Spanish speaking children. To measure the full range of phonological abilities, items were added that evaluate a child's ability to blend smaller units of sound - phonemes. This was not only useful from a test development perspective but was recommended by our national panel of bilingual experts because phoneme level blending is predictive of later English reading skills. In other words, although syllable manipulation is sufficient to learn to read in Spanish, a more complex sound manipulation is going to be helpful to Spanish speaking students at later grades when they transition into English literacy instruction.
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