ELLs / DLLs

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 [...]

Read the full article…

Building Baby Brains with Two Languages

by languagelizard March 13, 2013 At Home
Building Baby Brains with Two Languages

By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. Photo credit: christine (cbszeto) Learning to talk is one of the biggest jobs a baby has to do – so wouldn’t learning two languages be confusing? The answer is: No! According to the latest research, babies’ brains are so well prepared to analyze, absorb, and make sense of language, that learning [...]

Read the full article…

Bilingual Students: The Benefits of Narration

by languagelizard January 29, 2013 classroom
Bilingual Students: The Benefits of Narration

As we mentioned in our previous post, Bilingual Students: Using Holiday Celebrations to Promote Language Development in Multicultural Classrooms, bilingual students often have a lot to say right after they return from their winter holidays. They are eager to share activities that they engaged in with family and friends and to talk about the gifts [...]

Read the full article…

Bilingual Students: Using Holiday Celebrations to Promote Language Development in Multicultural Classrooms

by languagelizard January 10, 2013 classroom
Bilingual Students: Using Holiday Celebrations to Promote Language Development in Multicultural Classrooms

Now that the New Year has arrived and school is back in full swing, students are sure to be filled brimming with enthusiastic stories of what they did during their winter holiday. Ice skating in the park, opening gifts at the fireplace, lighting candles in beautifully wrought candelabras are just a few  activities that children [...]

Read the full article…

Multicultural Gift Ideas

by languagelizard December 9, 2012 Book Reviews
Goose Fables (The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg)

The holidays are right around the corner. For many of us, the most difficult part of this busy time of year is figuring out the perfect gift for friends and loved ones. For those of you looking for bilingual and multicultural products, we have put together a list of some customer favorites that make perfect [...]

Read the full article…

Teaching Thankfulness in Bilingual Classrooms

by languagelizard November 19, 2012 classroom
teaching thankfulness bilingual classroom

What a perfect time of year to focus on gratitude, appreciation and thankfulness! Having family and friends to share our lives with, food on the table, clean water to drink and a roof over our heads is something that adults and children alike can take time to reflect on during this holiday season. In bilingual [...]

Read the full article…

Bilingual Children and the First Days of School

by languagelizard August 22, 2012 classroom
Bilingual Children and the First Days of School

Starting school for the first time can be both an exciting and nerve-wracking experience for a young bilingual child. Aside from possible language barriers, cultural differences may often play a role. Things that are done in the classroom often do not match what a child is used to at home and this can make a [...]

Read the full article…

Bilingual Students: Preparing for the Coming School Year

by languagelizard August 7, 2012 classroom
bilingual students preparing for the coming school year

The start of the school year is just around the corner. Where did the summer go? It seems like just yesterday that we were watching our students head out the schoolhouse doors. Before we know it, they will be rushing back through those doors again. With the coming school year so close, it is important [...]

Read the full article…

Bilingual Children: Make Storytime Their Favorite Time of the Day

by languagelizard July 12, 2012 classroom
bilingual children: storytime favorite time of day

Reading out loud is one of the most wonderful ways we can help our children learn language(s). It helps to build vocabulary (in many languages) and helps children fall in love with literature and the written word. The more we can make storytime a great experience for children, the more they will look forward to [...]

Read the full article…

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 [...]

Read the full article…

← Previous Entries