Bridging with Curious Quique

What happens to one language when a bilingual child is using another?

In Bridging with Curious Quique: Discovering Connections Between Spanish and English, Curious Quique asks a big question-and begins an exciting investigation into how his languages connect.

With the guidance of Ms. Lawhon, Quique discovers that bilingual learners can intentionally examine their languages by learning to LOOK, NOTICE, COMPARE, CONNECT, and TRANSFER what they know.

Through an engaging classroom story, children explore metalinguistic awareness as they investigate connections and differences in words, sounds, meanings, word parts, sentence patterns, and punctuation.

But Quique doesn't just learn about bridging-he learns how to do it.

The book includes a memorable Bridging with Quique chant to help children remember the five steps of metalinguistic analysis, along with student-friendly sentence stems that support language detectives as they describe, compare, and discuss what they notice across languages.

Designed for bilingual and multilingual learners-and the educators and families who support them-Bridging with Curious Quique transforms an important biliteracy concept into something children can see, say, practice, and use.

LOOK. NOTICE. COMPARE. CONNECT. TRANSFER.

Together, we build the bridge.