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Teaching for Biliteracy Blogs:

Beginning with Biliteracy: A Kindergarten Story – In this blog series, Susan Pryor shares her
experiences as a Kindergarten dual language teacher. Among her posts, Susan offers
suggestions for welcoming families and students into the dual language classroom in the
beginning of the year, using concrete activities to anchor biliteracy instruction, and
implementing the Bridge in Kindergarten.

How I Fit In – In her blogs, Dana Hardt defines and describes the role of the English-medium
teacher in a two-teacher dual language program. Make sure to read her blog series on
implementing the Bridge for Biliteracy (when you are not bilingual).

Shifting Toward a Multilingual View of Biliteracy – Melody Wharton explores oracy
development and advocacy in her blog series, including a look at Chinese-English dual language
programs.

Coach’s Corner – Former dual language instructional coach Emily Zoeller shares tips and
suggestions for creating dual language coaching cycles, for designing small group and
individualized instruction for developing bilinguals, and for gathering data on dual language
student behaviors.

Bilingual Parenting – D. Garcia explores some of the questions and considerations involved in
raising a bilingual (or multilingual) child.

 

Other blogs we recommend:

We highly recommend Dr. Aradhana Mudambi’s blog series:  Social Justice and Education, especially as it relates to Dual Language Education…Dr. Mudambi’s blogs respond to the question, Why Bilingualism?, look at Civil Rights and Dual Language Education, Antiracism, and offer Teaching Tips.