Karla M Paz

12/07/2019

Great gift for expecting parents or new parents who want to raise bilingual children 👍👍

If you’re thinking about raising your child with two or more languages, or know someone who is, check out this new picture book for adults. I Want to Be Bilingual sums up why it it so important and also presents essential information to help parents be successful. It’s an entertaining look at what can be an intimidating topic.
So, if you’re raising a bilingual child, or considering it, or if you want to communicate to families how important their heritage language is, consider this book. it makes an excellent gift! I Want to be Bilingual is by Adam Beck of and you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/WANT-BE-BILINGUAL-Parents-Important/dp/4908629048/

10/18/2019

This is why it’s soo beneficial to read with your children especially in their native language. Spanish Playground KarLi Ta Sich

A new study has found that children who had strong early reading skills in their native Spanish language when they entered kindergarten experienced greater growth in their ability to read English from kindergarten through fourth grade.

10/05/2019

So important! I read with my son every night! We make it a part of his nighttime routine- he picks his 3 books for the week and we read them everyday night! He loves it! Then we pick another 3 the following week. We have been doing this since he was born.

Early experiences sharing and developing positive connections, language and communication set the stage for home reading to start children on the path to literacy.

09/25/2019

It happens all the time when I’m in public with my 2-year-old daughter: she’ll start talking. Insane, I know. The thing is, when she starts talking, she’ll speak a language that is not English much of the time. “Oh, how interesting! Does she speak…

09/06/2019

My partner grew up speaking Spanish and English, and his entire family speaks both languages. And while I grew up primarily speaking English, for about a decade, when my sister’s father immersed her in Latvian, I took classes to learn Latvian, too.…

08/02/2019

Talk with your child! It is sooo beneficial for language development.

This one thing is very doable and very powerful, as brain research has shown.

04/24/2019

Kids are showing reading gains in dual-language classrooms. There may be underlying brain advantages at work.

03/24/2019

More benefits of being bilingual 🤗🤗https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/being-multilingual-alters-your-experience-of-time/

02/01/2019

Young kids spend 2-3 hours a day in front of a screen, a new study says

05/28/2018

“In the illustrated book condition, researchers saw increased connectivity between — and among — all the networks they were looking at: visual perception, imagery, default mode and language.”

Why it’s soo important to read with your child!

There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers.

05/11/2018

The development of language occurs in four stages: Babbling stage, single-word stage, two- word stage, and multi-word stage. , eaters
Check out these 71 fun facts about child development! https://www.factretriever.com/child-development-facts

02/10/2018

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