Creating Translanguaging Classrooms and Therapy Rooms

—This 15 page material describes how to integrate aspects of multiculturalism in k-12 educational settings including classrooms and therapy rooms, in order to create language-rich environment with the focus on multicultural children’s heritage and languages.

Learning Objectives:

• —Discuss strategies used to support birth language and culture of emergent bilingual students in the classroom/therapy room
• —List bilingual books and apps which can be implemented in therapy as well as classroom during story time
• —Integrate aspects of geography and social studies in translanguaging during the school day

Product Content:

• What is Translanguaging
• Applying Translanguaging in Bilingual Classrooms
• Applying Translanguaging in ESL Classrooms
• Self-Questions re: Adding Translanguaging to the Curriculum
• Teaching Students About the World
• Creating Multilingual Environments
• Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices
• Preschool/Elementary Bilingual Thematic Readings
• Middle School and High School Readings
• Analyzing Fictional Texts
• Select Multicultural Apps
• Comparison of Bilingual Dictionaries (online and text)
• Conclusion
• Helpful Smart Speech Therapy Resources