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Building Bridges with Bilingual Books and Multicultural Resources: A Practical Manual of Lesson Plans, Literacy Games, and Fun Activities from Around the World to Celebrate Diversity in the Classroom Kindle Edition

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Are you trying to build an inclusive and culturally responsive classroom? The numerous cross-curricular diversity activities, multicultural lesson plans, and literacy games in this book will save K-5 teachers and homeschooling parents hundreds of hours. Organized in an easy-to-use fashion, this manual will help educators to engage dual language learners and families, support the academic and social development of ESL students, and promote cultural awareness and understanding.

Written by a multicultural education expert and founder of www.LanguageLizard.com, this book provides the tools you need for culturally responsive teaching:

  • Comprehensive Multicultural Lesson Plans that meet Common Core Standards and include accommodations for ESL students. Themes include:

    - Cultural Awareness and Diversity

    - Folktales, Fables, Myths, and Legends

    - Holidays/Festivals

  • 10 Diversity Activities Using Bilingual Books to Promote Literacy and Language Awareness.
  • 10 Games from Around the World
  • Foods and Crafts from Around the World
  • Diverse Language Profiles
  • Unique Holidays to Promote Multiculturalism and Literacy
  • Community-Building Handouts (Includes "Hello in Different Languages" handout)
  • Online Resources and Links
  • Special Bonus Material

This book gives you the resources you need to embrace diversity in your educational environment.

"This is an amazing resource! . . . This book will be so useful to so many!" - Caia Schlessinger, President of NJTESOL/NJBE

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Teacherscan use this book as a resource for incorporating more multicultural resourcesfor students of different cultures and backgrounds to create a welcomingenvironment. The lesson plans are beyond useful in helping teachers cultivate aculturally responsive classroom while demonstrating awareness for students'differences. Materials that are provided help alleviate the extra work that mayappear daunting to some teachers, so this resource will encourage more teachersto implement cultural diversity in their teaching and overall interactions withstudents.
Paige Dea,
Kindergarten Teacher

From the Author

Since founding Language Lizard in 2005, I have had the privilege of working with teachers and literacy organizations that support the educational and social development of immigrants, refugees, and dual language learners. I also work with teachers who were accustomed to more homogeneous student bodies, but whose classrooms have become increasingly diverse. These educators make great efforts to find appropriate resources to meet the needs of their students. 
 
My co-author, Dr. Heather Leaman, works with practicing teachers in the Master's of Education program at West Chester University. While interacting with these teachers, she has seen firsthand the need for resources that support their efforts to successfully teach in diverse classrooms.
 
In 2006, Dr. Leaman and I began working together with her students to create lesson plans using dual language books. We developed a series of multicultural lesson plans that were offered as a free resource on the Language Lizard website. We found that bilingual books were an excellent resource for introducing languages and cultures to children. As teachers used the books and lesson plans to introduce cultures, holidays, and languages of the minority children to the rest of the class, the children felt recognized and included. It helped to boost their self-esteem and pride in their unique heritage. Similarly, the non-minority children developed a greater understanding and appreciation of the "differences" of their classmates.
 
After seeing how well our multicultural lesson plans were received, and reviewing the trove of ideas developed over the years, I decided to embark on this book. My aim was to develop an easy-to-use resource that would help teachers and families to develop culturally responsive classrooms and homes. 
 
This book includes numerous ideas and resources to help educators teach students about other cultures and languages. Although some of the activities are best for classroom settings, many can be adapted for use in homeschooling environments or recommended to families who are trying to maintain a heritage language. Readers can skim the resources in the table of contents and then easily reference the sections that are most helpful at any particular time. I sincerely hope that this book will help you teach children about other cultures and languages and respond to the needs of the multicultural classroom, while meeting federal and state teaching requirements.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0829D5YLZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Language Lizard, LLC; 1st edition (December 2, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 238 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1951787005
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2019
    My husband and I are raising our children in a bilingual household and we love how this book promotes multiculturalism and bilingualism. It provides real (practical and doable) tools to use at our home. Also, I work at an organization that provides childcare and after school childcare and I can envision this book helping to make the classroom activities more inclusive. I am definitely going to share it with our teachers who I am sure will love it too!!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2019
    We live in a very diverse community and I have read many of Language Lizard’s bilingual books to my kids over the years to help my children understand and appreciate the cultural differences of their friends and neighbors. This book gave me a lot of new ideas! I plan on sharing this book with their teachers and other moms who are trying to build cultural awareness and empathy in their kids.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2019
    This book not only offers a ton of lesson plans built around different languages and cultures, but it provides some great background into the benefits of diversity in the classroom. As a former ESL teacher, this book will be useful to classroom teachers who need ideas for lesson planning. It's very user friendly and straightforward. Great book!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020
    I was gifted a copy of this book to review for multicultural children’s book day by Anneke Vanmarcke Forzani, and Language Lizard, LLC.

    I found this book to be an insightful and needed educational resource. It begins by talking about the increasing diversity in American schools, and the challenges and discrimination minority students often face. For example, it talks about how some educators may devalue a child’s dual language abilities, rather than viewing them as an asset. Other educators may fail to reach out to immigrant parents and engage them in their child’s educational experience, often due to communication difficulties.

    This book provides teachers with resources to help them create an inclusive learning environment that accepts differences and celebrates diversity. There’s a whole section on multicultural lesson plans, with fun themes including folktales and holidays. The lesson plans utilize multicultural picture books highlighting various cultures, and they include games, discussion ideas, activities, and tips for accommodations/differentiation.

    There is also a section with activities and games that teachers and parents can use to support multiculturalism. One of the activity suggestions I liked was to have a teacher read a book out loud at school in the school language, and have the parents read the same book at home in their home language. There are also fun games from around the world, multicultural crafts, and international recipes you can try at school or at home.

    All in all, I thought this was a great resource for teachers and parents with some excellent information and resources to promote multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion.
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