Dual Language

What’s the Real Home Language Story? Making your Head Start Classroom Welcoming for Multilingual Kids

by languagelizard May 3, 2013 classroom

  Every Head Start teacher has the privilege and responsibility to make his or her children feel valued and comfortable from day one in the classroom.   Enrollment form information can help with this: knowing all you can about a student’s background will help you to help them get used to their new school.  Sometimes, it’s [...]

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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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Bilingual Children: Summer Travel Activities

by languagelizard June 27, 2012 At Home
bilingual children: Summertime Travel Activities

Summer is a wonderful time of year to travel: Children are out of school and the warm days beacon for lazy hours at the beach or walks through cool forests. Whether we are traveling by land, air or sea, we can make bilingualism part of every bilingual child’s summertime adventures. Both parents and teachers can [...]

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Bilingual Children: Benefits of Learning to Read in the Home Language

by languagelizard May 27, 2012 Dual Language
bilingual children: Benefits of Learning to Read in the Home Language

We only learn how to read once. This is true for all of us: monolingual, bilingual or multilingual. Once we figure out how literacy works, it is with us forever. The best part about bilingual children learning to read is that once they figure it out in one language, they can transfer their literacy to [...]

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Bilingual Storytime: 5 Different Types

by languagelizard May 3, 2012 Dual Language
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Nowadays many libraries and bookstores are delighting their patrons with storytimes. Children love the magic of a good book that is brought to life through the skills of a good presenter. It is an opportunity for children to travel to new places that have never been explored and to experience adventures that have never been [...]

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Bilingual Books in Bilingual Classrooms

by languagelizard April 19, 2012 classroom
Bilingual Books for Bilingual Classrooms

Picture this: A classroom bustling with students engaged in a variety of activities. On one side of the room, the teacher mingles with a group of students who are working on a collage. It is spread out across a wide table and students are discussing, in English and Spanish, where to place the different items. [...]

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Support Your Dual Language Learners with $250 Worth of Bilingual Books!

by languagelizard September 6, 2011 Dual Language
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We are delighted to announce a chance for you to win $250 worth of bilingual books in your choice of languages! Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, and many more languages! It is easy to enter! All you have [...]

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5 Tips to Help Bilingual Children Shine in the Classroom

by languagelizard August 27, 2011 Dual Language
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Back-to-school sales line the aisles of supermarkets and drug stores; children roam department stores picking out new fall clothes; and parents rush around with check-lists of items their children will need in the coming weeks and months. Yes, the school year is about to begin. For bilingual children, this time of year may feel a [...]

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Bilingual Story Time at Your School Library

by languagelizard August 19, 2011 Dual Language
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It’s free, it’s fun and it’s in your language: bilingual story time! Across the United States libraries offer story times in a myriad of languages based on the demands of the community: Spanish, Russian, Gujarati, French, Japanese… just to name a few! Children sit wide-eyed in awe as an adult reads to them in their [...]

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Dual Language Books Benefit Bilingual Children

by languagelizard July 6, 2011 Dual Language
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Bilinguals around the world will tell you that they do not have the same degree of fluency in all of their languages. A language that is used primarily in academic situations may come across as stiff and stilted when used in less formal situations. Family issues are often more easily discussed in a home language. [...]

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