Resources for Educators & Parents

LANGUAGE LEARNING RESOURCES

•  'Hablame Bebe' - Phone application

•  Books in Spanish

  • ​Del Sol Books​
  • Scholastic

• ¡Colorín colorado!  - A bilingual website for families and teachers

• America Reads Spanish - A website with reviews and information about books for Spanish readers of all ages

• Lectura | Blog de aplicaciones - A collection of articles on reading and how to motivate children to read  

ACTIVITIES & EDUCATIONAL GAMES IN SPANISH

• 123 TEACHME - Videos of children’s songs in Spanish (with lyrics)

• COSICOSAS  - A website of children’s poetry from all Spanish-speaking countries

• CHILDTOPIA - A webpage in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, English, and German with more than 1200 online educational games, activities, worksheets, and stories
    

SCIENCE RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Bilingual kids gain benfits in leteracy skills

• How do Bilingual children learn to read

• For children with dyslexia, multilingualism can be beneficial

• How to deal with multilingualism in classrooms

• Dual-Language Immersion Programs Raise Student Acheivement in English

• Saturday school works to stop English-only classrooms from stunting Spanish-speaking kids

• Why the baby brain can learn two languages at the same time

INFORMATION ON HEALTH AND BILINGUALISM - FROM CANADA

• Language Acquisition in Immigrant and Refugee Children: First language use and bilingualism

• Brain Benefits of Bilingualism

RESEARCH WITH ENGLISH CLASSROOMS - OAXACA, MEXICO

• Grappling with translanguaging for teaching and assessment in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts

• YouTub Video - Kids in Santo Tomás Jalieza, Oaxaca

• YouTube Video - Elisa G., a school-aged girl reading in three languages

• YouTube Video - Sofia teaches english

• YouTube Video - Santo Thomas classroom

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