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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Springtime Language Learning Activities: Scavenger and Treasure Hunts

by languagelizard April 5, 2012 classroom
springtime language learning: scavenger and treasure hunts

Flowers are beginning to blossom in and the talk of eggs, bunnies and little yellow chicks is underway. It must be springtime! Students are excited and invigorated by the changing season, so it is a perfect time of year to incorporate activities that match the energetic mood of your classroom. Even though many of your [...]

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Teaching Children Languages: Benefits & Strategies

by languagelizard March 22, 2012 At Home
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The benefits of bilingualism has been a hot topic in recent years. Magazines, newspapers and blogs extol the fascinating ways in which the bilingual brain effortlessly manipulates more than one language at a time, working more effectively and efficiently than a monolingual one on specific types of tasks. Thanks to their brain’s more robust executive [...]

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$300 Bilingual Book Giveaway!

by languagelizard March 19, 2012 Families
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Language Lizard is giving away $300 worth of bilingual book gift certificates! There are four different ways to qualify for this giveaway so make sure to go to Language Lizard’s BILINGUAL BOOK GIVEAWAY page and find out how you can enter. It is easy! With books in over 40 different languages, you are sure to [...]

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Using Music to Help Children Learn Languages

by languagelizard March 5, 2012 classroom
Using Music to Help Children Learn Languages

Children love music and singing. There is something magical about words being set to a melody that make children perk up and join in. Since most children’s songs consist of catchy beats and poetry-infused lyrics, it is a perfect combination of rhythm, rhyme and fun. An added benefit to children’s songs is that they are [...]

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How to Help Students Survive Culture Shock

by languagelizard February 23, 2012 classroom
How to Help Students Survive Culture Shock

By Colleen Miller Photo credit: vasta Have you noticed that about halfway into the school year, new ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students, who once seemed excited and energized, seem to hit a wall? Students who once were bright-eyed and cheerful come to school looking listless and detached. More than just the mid-year [...]

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The Value of Cooperative Learning Activities for English Language Learners

by languagelizard February 7, 2012 ELLs / DLLs
English Language Learners Cooperative Learning Activity

Do you remember dreading group projects when you were in school? Inevitably, our teacher would pair us up with someone we hardly knew and begrudgingly we participated in the activity. Of course, by the end of the project we knew our classmate better than ever while having had a wonderful time. For English Language Learners, [...]

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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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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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