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
  • YouTube 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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