Bilingual classroom

As a dual language teacher, you know the challenges of providing a comprehensive learning experience for your students. The lack of appropriate resources can leave you feeling unprepared and hinder your ability to create an engaging bilingual classroom environment. That’s why in this blog post, we will explore five essential bilingual classroom must haves that every dual language teacher needs to feel set up for success and prepared to empower their students.

Boost students' reading skills by building conciencia fonológica with engaging, teacher-approved Spanish Phonemic Awareness Mats.

Looking for inspiration for your ESL classroom? Then you will love these Multilingual Hello bulletin board ideas.

Atención bilingual teachers! Check out these 9 Spanish back to school books that are perfect for the dual language classroom. Plus I include activities for each book 📚❤️

Introduce little learners to the human body with these 24 free printable, bilingual body parts flashcardS printable in Spanish and English.

Bilingual classroom decor. Center or station posters for the bilingual English-Spanish or Dual Language Classroom for your back to school classroom decor. English words are in blue and Spanish words are in red, for those following the Gomez & Gomez model. It includes 31 center signs to label your learning stations and cards for the pocket chart.

I previously posted on some of the first lessons I did in the Dual Language classrooms throughout our building at the beginning of the year to introduce myself and get acquainted with the classes. One of the lessons you may remember that I did with the intermediate grades was based on a poem expressing the benefits of being bilingual. Feel free to view this previous post if you haven't already for a bit of background here. Last week, one of the second grade teachers asked if I could do this…

Calendar time is a natural thing to do in the elementary World Language classroom. Students are used to doing it in their regular classroom and it's an opportunity to introduce and practice content - math, science, and even geography. I got the chance to observe some of the regular classroom teachers and even some Dual Language Immersion teachers to see how they do calendar and I've copied what I liked, adjusted what I needed to, and now my kiddos love calendar time. Here are some ideas to…

Inside: A peek into dozens of Spanish classrooms, of all kinds, shapes, and sizes! A well-designed room won’t make or break your teaching. Oh, but it can make a difference in how you and your students feel. Some of you have very limited options, and very tight budgets. There’s some serious classroom eye-candy here, but the

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Bilingual early literacy centers are fun to set-up to foster reading and life-long readers. Explore these tips to encourage reading anywhere.

I love using cognates to help empower my older newcomers to access high-level vocab! (They are all Spanish-speakers right now) Explicit teaching of the patterns also increases their metalinguistic awareness! #ELLs #ELLchat

Are you a new Dual language teacher? Welcome! I hope you'll find this tips helpful! This post may contain affiliate links. It might seem obvious, duh I'm a teacher of course I have to be patient! It is so different when you have a room full of kiddos who are learning a language. You will give directions and some students will give you a blank stare because they have no idea what just happened. Let me tell you, when teaching language learners, you will have to find the patience you didn't…

Are you on the hunt for quotes on bilingual education to inspire your students to embrace bilingualism? Look no further! I've got a list of amazing quotes

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I'm feeling pretty festive today (or maybe I'm just craving tacos...) so I thought I'd share some of my favorite Spanish picture books. Or really, to be more specific, the Spanish bilingual books and Mexican culture stories I enjoyed using my Head Start Preschool storytimes (you can see a couple highlighted bilingual storytimes I did here). So here are my top eleven! Plus some more, because I always seem to think of other random titles here and there in my descriptions…

Working with a Buddy Chart

great anchor chart for fluency!