Whether your first day of school is in August or September, it’s never too early to get your classroom ready for the new school year. While working through your classroom preparation checklist, remember the importance of having a welcoming classroom for all students, especially those learning English for the first time. With schools in the U.S. continuing to change to reflect our country’s increasing cultural diversity, creating an atmosphere that reflects acceptance and diversity right from the start is essential. (Check out our blog post about 5 Back to School Tips – Bilingual & Multicultural Classrooms.)
With that in mind, Language Lizard always strives to provide educators with the appropriate resources to help develop literacy skills among English language learners, build inclusive classrooms, and celebrate cultural diversity.
Over 60 Languages
With over 60 languages available and resources that range from bilingual board books to talking dictionaries, we have a wide variety of materials to meet the needs of students and educators alike. We are continually adding new languages to some of our most popular languages.
Here’s what’s new this month:
- Our popular back-to-school title, Tom and Sofia Start School, adds Pashto to its list of 27 languages.
- We’ve added Burmese, Dari, Chinese, Pashto, Swahili, and Vietnamese to our Habitat Series. This series includes Coral Reefs, Deserts, and Tropical Rainforests.
- The Living in Harmony series is now available in Dutch, Gujarati, and Tamil. This set includes Be Kind, We Can All Be Friends, and Who Are We?
- Amazing Sports from Around the World has added Burmese, Chinese, and Pashto to its list of language offerings.
- The Three Little Sun Bears and The Three Little Howlers are now available in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese and the Karen language.
- Now in stock in Ukrainian are Ellie’s Secret Diary, Food, Food, Fabulous Food, and Keeping Up With Cheetah.
- Rafa’s First Day is available in Burmese, Karen, and Ukrainian.
- Quiet! is now available in Kurmanji Kurdish.
- We have added Burmese and Karen to Mei Ling’s Hiccups.
- Sunita At The Zoo, Sunita Makes Friends, and Sunita’s Special Day have added Chinese, Farsi, Pashto, and Russian.
Coming very soon are several additional titles in Somali.
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Bilingual Book Sets
We are excited to add Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian to our 5 and 10-book sets and our 4-book PENpal starter sets. These bilingual book sets are an easy way to begin a bilingual library and enjoy an assortment of our most popular bilingual children’s books cost-effectively.
Wait, there’s more!
With our new Premium Collection resources, we have added a lot of fun activities to accompany our free lesson plans. Activities include crafts, word searches, and more!
Don’t forget that Language Lizard has a YouTube channel with lots of great companion videos which complement many of our books. These videos are short and engaging and support language learning in the classroom and at home. For instance, did you want to know more about howler monkeys and their sound?
Check out this companion YouTube video to The Three Little Howlers book:
What’s Next?
We are working on something really exciting and can’t wait to share it with you in the next few months. We will be sure to share the news via our newsletter and Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, so make sure you’re following us.