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Bringing up Multilingual Children with Less Common Home Languages

by languagelizard April 15, 2013 community support

On a sunny day in London, when the streets are crowded with people enjoying the rare warmth, you can hear an abundance of different languages from the majority migrant groups in the city: families discussing the school day in Somali; teenagers gossiping in Turkish; imams greeting each other in Urdu.   But passing by the shop [...]

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Grants and Funding for Bilingual Classrooms

by languagelizard September 18, 2012 community support
Grants and Funding for Bilingual Classrooms

As we all know, many teachers have a hard time finding funding for all the books, materials and resources they need for their classrooms. For teachers of English Language Learner (ELL) students, access to quality resources, materials, and training is especially important, as ELL students need bilingual books and materials to improve their literacy and [...]

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Bilingual Children & Summer Literacy Programs

by languagelizard June 12, 2012 At Home
Bilingual Children and Summer Reading Programs

Summertime is upon us! The school year is coming to an end and our favorite summer activities are right around the corner: Running barefoot through sprinklers, savoring a neon-colored snow cone and sitting in the shade of a favorite tree with a good book. What could be better? Even though school is letting out, children [...]

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Supporting Bilingualism: 4 Reasons Parents Should Speak Heritage Languages at Home

by languagelizard January 11, 2012 At Home
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Although the United States has been dubbed “the graveyard of languages” for its lack of heritage language support, today’s children’s futures need not be so bleak. Given the right encouragement, immigrant families can pass on the best of both worlds to their children: a home language in addition to the community language. For many decades [...]

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Support Early Childhood Literacy in International Preschool Classroom

by languagelizard July 20, 2011 community support
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We’d like to share with you a great opportunity to support early childhood literacy and language development to children in need with bilingual books and educational supplies! Our friends at Give and Surf Inc. are starting a preschool for ages 3-5 in Bocas del Toro, Panama.  The preschool will be educating children from the indigenous [...]

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