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        CHINESE NEW YEAR – A MULTICULTURAL HOLIDAY

        January 23, 2019
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        Chinese New Year begins on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. It’s a special time to honor ancestors and renew family bonds with traditional rituals and feasts. Also known as Spring Festival, for those who celebrate it, it’s one of the most important social and economic holidays of the year.   CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese New Year is tied to the Chinese lunar calendar. The celebration begins on the night of a new moon, and culminates with the Lantern Festival, when families gather in the streets............. CONTINUE READING
        Holidays, Multicultural,

        MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN’S BOOKS #READYOURWORLD

        January 15, 2019
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        Language Lizard is a proud sponsor of Multicultural Children’s Book Day on January 25, 2019. Children’s books that showcase diverse, multicultural characters have long been underrepresented on the shelves of libraries and bookstores. Here’s why the next time you’re book shopping, you’ll want to make multicultural children’s books a top priority.   We Need More Multicultural Children’s Books Of the 3,700 children’s books reviewed by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in 2017, only............. CONTINUE READING
        At Home, Community Support,

        #COUNTALLKIDS – WHY THE UPCOMING CENSUS MATTERS

        January 8, 2019
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        The 2020 US Census has been a hot topic in the news* because of a controversial citizenship question. The #CountAllKids campaign wants you to know why it’s absolutely essential that our nation’s children are counted.   Our Constitution mandates that the government will count its population once every decade, and our next Census will happen in 2020. Because of a controversial citizenship question announced by the US Census Bureau in March............. CONTINUE READING
        Holidays, Multicultural, Schools,

        CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

        December 1, 2018
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        guest post by Edmond Gubbins Teaching in a small, rural, primary school rooted in the Catholic ethos in Ireland, Christmas is a central tradition celebrated by the students. Each year in December, the children perform a Christmas pageant, attended by their families and fellow schoolmates. However, my colleagues and I decided that, this year, we would divert from telling the traditional story of the birth of Jesus Christ and the Nativity and move instead toward teaching a more inclusive............. CONTINUE READING
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        CHARITABLE PROGRAM PROVIDES BILINGUAL BOOKS IN SPANISH, ARABIC AND KURDISH TO LANGUAGE LEARNERS

        November 26, 2018
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        Language Lizard and our colleagues at Mantra Lingua UK were honored to support a recent charity initiative of eClinicalWorks, to provide literacy materials to thousands of dual language families in Tennessee. eClinicalWorks, a leading healthcare technology solutions company, assembled book kits for children in the Metro Nashville Public Schools.  Spanish, Arabic and Kurdish speaking families received two of our most popular bilingual books in English and their home language: The Little Red Hen and............. CONTINUE READING
        At Home, Families, Holidays, Multicultural,

        UNIQUE MULTICULTURAL GIFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

        November 21, 2018
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        Celebrate diversity and show your support for bilingualism with these fun and unique gifts! Perfect for bilingual students and teachers in diverse classrooms. Discounts on ALL Bilingual Book Sets – Available in 40+ languages! We hand-selected our most popular titles for bilingual book sets to save you time and money. All books include English and one other language of your choice. Tailored to meet the language needs of teachers and librarians, they make ordering............. CONTINUE READING
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        CELEBRATING THE BILINGUAL CHILD MONTH – GIVEAWAY & DISCOUNTS EXTENDED!

        November 13, 2018
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        Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month is a great opportunity to recognize the many children who speak two or more languages and understand multiple cultures. Let’s encourage literacy and parental involvement, and celebrate the children who work so hard to learn a new language. Huge Bilingual Book Giveaway – Extended! Language Lizard has given away a surprise set of bilingual books to a new winner every month. We’ve already given away OVER $1,000 in............. CONTINUE READING
        Language Spotlight,

        FARSI (PERSIAN) LANGUAGE FACTS & FARSI CHILDREN’S BOOKS

        November 5, 2018
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        Today’s spotlight language is Farsi. Find background information and interesting facts about the language, as well as information to help you find Farsi children’s books. Interested in learning about even more languages? Check out our series of posts on world languages, including French, Hindi, Russian and Japanese! Where is Farsi spoken? Farsi, also known as Persian, Dari or Tajiki, is the national language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. It is also spoken in other parts of the Middle East and India. There are............. CONTINUE READING
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        2 NEW (FREE!) MULTICULTURAL LESSON PLANS

        October 2, 2018
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        We’ve teamed up with our friends at West Chester University to bring you two new lesson plans that bring multicultural education to your classroom! Download the free lesson plans and adapt them to the unique needs of your classroom. Homeschooling parents, use the activities to build literacy skills and explore new languages and cultures with your kids!  The lesson plans can be aligned with state and Common Core standards in Reading/Language Arts. The bilingual book The Little Red Hen and the............. CONTINUE READING
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