Join us in celebrating Earth Day this year with some classroom activities and bilingual books for environmental education!.......... CONTINUE READING
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March 22, 2021
To celebrate World Folktales & Fables Week, Language Lizard highlights three books that celebrate clever women around the world!.......... CONTINUE READING
February 24, 2021
We are excited to announce the release of our new Language Lizard Living in Harmony Books. These books use colorful multicultural illustrations and simple text to explain concepts of diversity, kindness, and friendship. Illustrations include diverse characters and settings from around the world, allowing children to see themselves in the book and learn about the world around them.
Sample page from We Can All Be Friends (Spanish-English edition)
The Language Lizard Living in Harmony Book Series consists of three titles:
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February 7, 2021
On Friday, January 29th, Language Lizard celebrated Multicultural Children’s Book Day as a Platinum Sponsor. The day was busy with a twitter party, book giveaways, and lots of reviews of multicultural books.
That’s a Wrap!
We are always excited to bring awareness to the need for more multicultural children’s books in classrooms and libraries. This year, participants at the MCBD Twitter Party shared the difficulties they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. They also spoke about the multicultural and diverse books they............. CONTINUE READING
January 24, 2021
Learn food idioms, animal idioms and more during idiom week!.......... CONTINUE READING
January 13, 2021
This year, Idiom Week is January 24-30. This is a great opportunity for students to have multicultural and language learning fun with idioms. Here are some ways for students to "have a ball" during Idiom Week........... CONTINUE READING
October 15, 2020
We are excited to announce a new series of idiom books, available in many languages. With clever multicultural illustrations and bilingual example sentences, Language Lizard Idiom Books explain common idioms in a way that makes them easy to understand.
What is an Idiom?
An idiom is a phrase that says one thing, but means something different. An idiom can be a quick way of saying something complicated. It’s useful for language learners to study idioms because knowing idioms............. CONTINUE READING
A look at idioms, how they transfer across different languages and how language learners can bridge the cultural divide when studying them........... CONTINUE READING
June 8, 2020
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We at Language Lizard always strive to promote inclusion, and celebrate diversity. We encourage schools, teachers and families to address the inequities that exist in our society. This post contains resources that specifically address how parents and teachers can talk about race and racism with children.
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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May 1, 2020
Idioms present a great opportunity for students to have some language learning fun. Here, we discuss idioms, and explore activities that use idioms in the classroom and at home. .......... CONTINUE READING