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Early Years Guiding Principles of Language Development

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Early Years Guiding Principles of Language Development

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Language Focused Planning Tool- Annotated

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Language Focused Planning Tool- Annotated

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Language Focused Planning Tool- Editable

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Language Focused Planning Tool- Editable

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How can PreK educators get started planning equitable learning opportunities for multilingual children? Use this language-focused planning tool to embed a language-focused approach to your planning.

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Talk! Talk!  Talk! Early Childhood Oral Language Resource

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This guide provides a set of actions PreK-3 educators, administrators and staff can take to support a language-focused approach to family and community engagement, and teaching and learning practices.

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Promoting Equity for Young Multilingual Children and Their Families

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Promoting Equity for Young Multilingual Children and Their Families

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Promoting Equity for Young Multilingual Children and Their Families

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This Focus Bulletin invites early care and education (ECE) educators to promote equity for young multilingual children and their families. In the bulletin, we offer ideas for taking a language-focused approach to equitable caregiving and instructional practice in ECE settings.

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This guide presents six key considerations for strengthening family engagement practices and building relationships with families.

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Family Connections Through Home Languages

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Family Connections Through Home Languages

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Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners

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This WIDA Focus Bulletin emphasizes the many benefits of collaboration. The collaborative approach is presented as a cyclical process with shared responsibility by educators assessing, reflecting upon, planning for and teaching multilingual learners.

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Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners

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Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners

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Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners

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This WIDA Focus Bulletin emphasizes the many benefits of collaboration. The collaborative approach is presented as a cyclical process with shared responsibility by educators assessing, reflecting upon, planning for and teaching multilingual learners.

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Adopting a Language-Focused Approach to Transitions Across PreK-3 Settings

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Adopting a Language-Focused Approach to Transitions Across PreK-3 Settings

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Adopting a Language-Focused Approach to Transitions Across PreK-3 Settings

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This concept tool provides an overview of equitable, language-focused approaches to multilingual children's transitions across programs, districts, schools and grade levels (PreK-K, K-1, 1-2 and 2-3).

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What teachers and administrators need to know to best serve Multilingual Learners

Below you will find answers to key questions along with strategies gleaned from the latest research on Multilingual Learner (ML) children. Each question area includes both research support for why it is important and specific evidence-based strategies. Many of the research studies underlying these practices integrate several strategies over an extended period. This means that determining the impact of a single strategy implemented is not possible. Therefore, individual strategies across the different instructional topics are interconnected, and we must implement them together, in a purposeful and connected manner. Always bear in mind, of course, your classroom or school's language model when implementing the strategies and adapt accordingly.

Start here!

We recommend reading through the Starter Guide section before exploring the Instructional Strategies. Individual strategies across the different instructional topics are interconnected and should be implemented together, in a purposeful and connected manner throughout instruction, and not in isolation. Make sure to also consider your classroom or school's language model when implementing the strategies and adapt accordingly.

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Instructional Strategies & Resources * Multilingual Learning Toolkit

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The instructional strategies are presented as responses to questions you might have about how best to serve Multilingual Learners

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Books transport readers to other worlds -- and not only fantasy lands where animals talk and magic is commonplace. The stories on this list introduce kids to cultures and worlds that are much closer by ... and just as fascinating! For more books that show kids, teen, and families with a variety of cultural traditions, check out Books with Asian, Asian American, Desi, and Pacific Islander Characters, Books with Latinx Characters, Books with Muslim American Characters, and Books with Native American Characters.

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Books transport readers to other worlds -- and not only fantasy lands where animals talk and magic is commonplace. The stories on this list introduce kids to cultures and worlds that are much closer by ... and just as fascinating!

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Teaching At The Beginning, Inc.™, a nonprofit organization, supports educators of young dual language learners through video materials, resources, and presentations. You are invited to visit us at: http://www.teachatb.org We extend our tremendous gratitude to the following individuals and organizations for their inspiration and support for "The Young Dual Language Learner: 20 Short Videos" project.

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Snapshot of planning for language and learning

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Snapshot of planning for language and learning