NEW! Multilingual Learning Toolkit Updates (September 2022)

September 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Multilingual Learning Toolkit website. To celebrate this milestone, Early Edge California and partners have developed exciting new enhancements to the Toolkit!

Updates include:

• Two early literacy resources that explore the intersection of early literacy and Multilingual Learners—developed by our partner, Dr. Laurie Olsen
  • A Deeper Look at Early Literacy
  • FAQ Guide for Program Directors and Administrators 
• Six video guides for practitioners, serving as a companion resource, with prompts for reflection and discussion, for the following selected videos found on the website: 
  • Adventures in Preschool Second Language Acquisition
  • Bilingualism Through the Eyes of a Student
  • Bilingualism Through the Eyes of Families
  • Complex Oral Language—PreK
  • Family Language and Interests Interview (the video is available in English and Spanish)
  • Integrated Thematic Unit—3rd Grade
  • Using Reciprocal Teaching to Engage 3rd-Grade Readers
• Four sample lesson plans and resource walks, designed to introduce teachers to the following instructional topic areas through a structured exploration of the Toolkit:
  • Family Engagement
  • Social-Emotional Health and Development
  • Oral Language Development, and 
  • Home Language Development;
• And last but not least, we are proud to share that we have now reached over 400 resources across the 11 instructional topic areas! Thank you to our many partners who contributed to this monumental effort of providing quality resources to the field. 

To help ensure this resource remains as relevant and useful to the field as possible, feel free to share any suggestions or ideas for new content that you would like to see on the website: www.multilinguallearningtoolkit.org/contact. 

In the meantime, stay informed about new updates to the Toolkit by subscribing to the mailing list: www.multilinguallearningtoolkit.org/sign-up.