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.
Write the nursery rhyme "Jack Be Nimble" on chart paper and read it with the children. Place one set of laminated candlesticks with numerals and corresponding dots on each table. Show children how to use small birthday candles as counters as they match them to the numerals or dots on the laminated candlesticks.
