Kids Come In All Languages

Everything you need to create a high-trust, high-achieving learning environment for multilingual students We have never known more than we do now about teaching multilingual students — nevertheless, we teeter on the edge of retreating to old-think practices. The next generation depends upon our getting this right, and this spare, salient guide helps ensure we do. Kids Come in All Languages provides teachers and leaders with all they need to design high-quality curriculum to support multilingual learners. With this book, learn to: Create a low-anxiety, high-expectation classroom climate that gives multilingual students access to engaging grade-level content Plan clear, cohesive lessons and tasks that motivate students to produce language, use critical thinking skills, and access complex texts Offer ample time for student-led talk that ramps up knowledge and amps up a sense of belonging Use heterogeneous, flexible grouping so children acquiring English don’t stall out in fixed-mindset, below-grade level groups And much more Teachers act like tributaries, helping learners access a wider stream of knowledge, and catch the swift current of wanting to learn. It’s time to envision this expansiveness for multilingual students. It’s time to design learning experiences with optimism for their futures.

"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.

Intended to help students from language-minority backgrounds develop literacy in English, this book identifies and answers the major questions surrounding reading instruction for English as a second language (ESL) students. Specifically, the book reviews and synthesizes what is known about background issues related to the education of ESL students; provides specific suggestions to teachers and administrators for organizing for instruction and enhancing student learning; and gives concrete examples of practical ways in which teachers can develop and implement authentic, meaning-centered instructional activities. Chapters in the book are (1) "Demographic Overview: Changes in Student Enrollment in American Schools" (Julia Lara); (2) "Multiculturation: An Educational Model for a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society" (Carlos E. Cortes); (3) "The Acquisition of English as a Second Language" (Jim Cummins); (4) "Self-Esteem: Access to Literacy in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms" (Bess Altwerger and Bonnie Lee Ivener); (5) "Instructional Approaches and Teaching Procedures" (Anna Uhl Chamot and J. Michael O'Malley); (6) "Selecting Materials for the Reading Instruction of ESL Children" (Virginia Garibaldi Allen); (7) "Comprehending through Reading and Writing: Six Research-Based Instructional Strategies" (Nancy Farnan and others); (8) "Language, Literacy, and Content Instruction: Strategies for Teachers" (Alfredo Schifini); and (9) "Assessing the Literacy Development of Second-Language Students: A Focus on Authentic Assessment" (Georgia Earnest Garcia). "The ESL Student: Reflections on the Present, Concerns for the Future (Eleanor Wall Thonis) concludes the book. Author and subject indexes are attached. (RS)

Who Are We? helps us to understand and appreciated the diversity in our community. This bilingual book in Dari and English, part of the Language Lizard Living in Harmony Series, includes access to free lesson plans and fun activities to support diversity education.

Activity Book for learning language and How to Say hello in All major Languages in The World like English, Spanish, Arabic, Indian, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. Teach your kids how to Say Hello is Important Step to Open up to The World and Languages in General.

A beloved Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size! This super-simple, super-sturdy board book of rollicking rhymes is now available in a bigger trim size! An abridged version of the classic Bright and Early Book There's a Wocket in my Pocket! by Dr. Seuss, it's perfect for babies and toddlers!

Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved? Since 1992, Dr. Gary Chapman's best-selling book The 5Love Languages has helped millions of couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others' love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite. Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and content of books for children, but also their potential social functions, especially within education. These two perspectives are brought together within a theory of children’s literature as one among other forms of communication, an approach that sees the role of literary scholars, critics and teachers as one of mediation. Part I deals with the way children’s writers and picturebook-makers draw on a culture’s available resources of orality, literacy, intertextuality, and image. Part II examines their negotiation of major issues such as the child adult distinction, gender, politics, and the Holocaust. Part III discusses children’s books as used within language education programmes, with particular attention to young readers’ pragmatic processing of differences between the context of writing and their own context of reading.