All first-grade students in Ashland School District will begin learning Spanish next school year and continue with lessons each year through 12th grade. The Ashland Daily Tidings reports that the school board voted Monday to start a European model of second-language instruction, where language teachers give students daily lessons lasting about 30 minutes.Learn Spanish

Features Angleton Texas ISD dual-language program that pairs 10 English-speaking students with 10 native Spanish-speaking students in classes that divide their day between English and Spanish instruction. learn Spanish

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Shelly Moses is putting her students through the paces in Spanish class at Grandin Court Elementary.

11-year-old Jack Vance and his classmates are getting an early start on a foreign language.

Along with the rest of these 5th graders, Jack reads well above his grade level, just as Lee Pritchard does. Lee enjoys knowing how to talk to the waiter in a Mexican restaurant. "We went to El Rodeo. We had to order what we wanted in Spanish. It was cool," says Pritchard. "After the 7th or 8th grade, they just cannot get that pronunciation. And you heard them, I always tell them you sound like 'nativos' and they do so well, because in Spanish classes in middle and high school, they don't try as hard because they think it's silly," says Elementary Spanish Teacher Shelly Moses.learn spanish