The purpose of this study was to evaluate how bilingual children spell initial consonant clusters compared with final consonant clusters. Participants were sixteen bilingual kindergarten children who speak Spanish as their first language and English as their second language. Participants individually completed the Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Spanish-Bilingual Edition (ROWPVT-4:SBE; Martin, 2013) and an experimental spelling test that included 25 words, 17 words with initial consonant clusters and 8 words with final consonant clusters. Words were scored for accuracy of initial and final consonant cluster spelling. A paired samples t-test showed that Spanish-English bilingual kindergartens have more difficulty spelling final consonant clusters than initial consonant clusters.

INDEX WORDS: Spelling, Consonant clusters, Bilingual children.