Lesson Plans

Chinese New Year: Lessons to Help Children Appreciate Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

by languagelizard January 23, 2012 classroom
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Happy Chinese New Year! Let the Year of the Dragon begin! Chinese families around the world are already celebrating this exciting event which lasts for fifteen days. The celebration begins on the night of a new moon and culminates with the Lantern Festival, a celebration that takes place under the light of the full moon. [...]

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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 Books in Multicultural Lesson Plans

by languagelizard July 28, 2011 Lesson Plans
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Reading bilingual books with bilingual children can be a wonderful way to help expand comprehension and vocabulary in more than one language. As you read in Dual Language Books Benefit Bilingual Children, children who can read the same story in more than one language reap many benefits. For example, they can transfer their comprehension and [...]

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A Child’s Place in the World – PART I: Using dual language books as a tool for teaching social studies in elementary school

by languagelizard May 15, 2011 Lesson Plans

By guest author: Heather Leaman Elementary schools in the United States typically use the expanding environments approach to teach social studies in grades K-5. Under this curriculum plan, children learn about self and family in Kindergarten and first grade. In second and third grade, children learn about neighborhood and community. As they progress through the [...]

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