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Biliteracy: Reading and Writing Starts with the Words Around Us

by Corey
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By Corey Heller Photo credit: Erica Olsen Long before our bilingual children learn to read and write, they will have been exposed to the written word in many different formats. They see words on signs, in books, on computers, and plastered across billboards. In fact, it is difficult to get through the day without being [...]

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Bilingual Homeschooling: Reading and Writing in More Than One Language

by Maria
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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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Biliteracy: Teach Your Bilingual Child to Read and Write in Your Language

by Corey
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Photo credit: Alan Cleaver School is finishing in many places around the world. Children are looking forward to lazy days on the grass, swimming under the hot sun and chasing sprinkler rainbows across the yard. Ah, the joys of childhood. Summertime is also a time for reading – under trees, on the beach, lounging on [...]

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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

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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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Family, Friends, and Français: Tactile and Kinesthetic Activities

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By Sarah Dodson-Knight Photo credit: rick Welcome to our final article in this series on immersing your children in meaningful language use when talking about friends and family! As always, our examples are for using French with young children, but most will work for any language and can be adapted for older children as well. [...]

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Family, Friends, and Français: Literacy Activities

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By Sarah Dodson-Knight Photo credit: rick Now that you’ve had a chance to see some classic and modern books in French about friends and family, it’s time to get creative, do some fun literacy activities, and help your young children make their own poems and books about the people they love!  Many of the ideas [...]

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