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.
Prepare cards of the same number using pictures of different objects; one card with three bears, another with three trees and another with three hearts. Repeat for other numbers. Spread the cards in front of the children and encourage them to match cards that have the same number of objects.
