Partner with families to learn about their language practices, stories, and literacy-related interactions at home, recognizing that children bring rich knowledge and skills from their first languages and cultural experiences. Dual language learners should have opportunities to demonstrate proficiency in the standard in both their first language and English, with supports such as first-language use, cross-language connections, gestures, visuals, and props. These opportunities allow young dual language learners to build on what they know and can do in their first language as they continue to develop communication, language, and literacy skills in all their languages.
At the easels, encourage two children to help one another create a masterpiece in the art center. One child is the painter, the other child gives the directions. Encourage the children to draw dots and lines according to the instructions. “Place a blue dot on top of the orange line. Draw a yellow line next to the blue dot.”
