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Singing the Bilingual Homeschooling Blues

by Corey
Bilingual children reading German book

By Corey Heller We homeschoolers tend to be a pretty upbeat bunch. We have to be. We don’t have the time or energy to be down. We are with our children 24/7. No breaks allowed. We worry that the minute we take our eyes off the ball, things will fall apart, which, by the way, [...]

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Bilingual Homeschooling: Baby Steps to Biliteracy

by Maria
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By Maria Hawkins Photo credit: ThomasLife A few days ago a parent in my youngest daughter’s soccer class asked my advice on teaching her daughter to read.  I took a deep breath to collect my thoughts before I answered.  Her daughter had just turned three. The world of reading and writing opens so many doors [...]

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Biliteracy: Teaching Bilingual Children to Read and Write in More Than One Alphabet

by Corey
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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Henry Scott As you have already read in Bilingual Homeschooling: Reading and Writing in More Than one Language and Biliteracy: Reading and Writing Starts with the Words Around Us, helping our children to learn to read and write in more than one language is 1 part teaching and 9 parts [...]

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Bilingual Homeschooling: Reading and Writing in More Than one Language

by Maria
Learning to read.

By Maria Hawkins Photo credit: Neeta Lind Let me share a secret with you.  Reading and writing are just more complex ways of speaking and listening; they are just two more ways for you to communicate with the world around you. That is how I introduced my Kindergarten students to these ideas many moons ago. [...]

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Bilingual Homeschooling: How to Use Visual Dictionaries & Word Books for Language Learning

by Maria
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By Maria Hawkin Photo credit: Le Petit Poulailler Once we started down the bilingual parenting road seven years ago (see my post on how we got started) I was energized and passionate and jumped in with both feet.  I was reconnecting with my Spanish language and culture that I had often ignored since college and [...]

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Bilingual Homeschooling: How We Got Here

by Maria
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By Maria Hawkins Photo credit: Erin Kohlenberg About 5 years ago we were visiting my sister and brother-in-law and they asked if we would ever consider homeschooling (they were a few months from having their first baby and thinking perhaps it was a good option for them).  At the time my son was on the [...]

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Can Multilingual Sports Stars Encourage the Love of Language and Culture in Our Children?

by Corey
Photo Credit: © Orlando Florin Rosu

With the World Cup South Africa 2010 in full swing, we see over and over again multilingualism in vivid action.  Players from different countries, training in international locations with trainers who speak different languages, interacting with diverse people and players and fans.  Being a sports star ain’t what is used to be! Have you ever [...]

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