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Many of my Chinese, Vietnamese, and Spanish ESL students have little or no books at home in their native languages. Imagine having to leave your first home suddenly due to a hurricane, or other traumatic situation, leaving everything behind, as many of our newly-arriving Puerto Rican families had to. Yikes! How can parents help their children learn to read in their first language without any resources/books in those languages? That is why I am creating a Bilingual Book Exchange, so my ESL students can take home books that they have/will be exposed to in their American classrooms, to read with their families in both their first languages AND in English . As my ESL students and their families read these bilingual books in English and their native languages at home together, it will be an empowering, bonding, and fun experience for both of them as they learn from each other! Research shows that the rate of successful second language acquisition is built upon the strength, support, and reinforcement of the first language. In other words, the better you know your first language, the faster you will learn a second one, especially if you can read in your first language! The books that I selected for this Bilingual Book Exchange contain vocabulary and grammar themes that are crucial to successful language learning. For example, the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" book contains days of the week, foods, ordinal numbers, colors, sequencing, the life cycle of the butterfly, etc. The "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" book emphasizes colors, animals, question word formation, sequencing, pronouns. etc. I plan to send one bilingual book home each week with each of my Chinese, Vietnamese,and Spanish ESL students, to share and read with their families, then to exchange it weekly for a different book.

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Many of my Chinese, Vietnamese, and Spanish ESL students have little or no books at home in their native languages. Imagine having to leave your first home suddenly due to a hurricane, or other traumatic situation, leaving everything behind, as many of our newly-arriving Puerto Rican families had to. Yikes! How can parents help their children learn to read in their first language without any resources/books in those languages? That is why I am creating a Bilingual Book Exchange, so my ESL students can take home books that they have/will be exposed to in their American classrooms, to read with their families in both their first languages AND in English . As my ESL students and their families read these bilingual books in English and their native languages at home together, it will be an empowering, bonding, and fun experience for both of them as they learn from each other! Research shows that the rate of successful second language acquisition is built upon the strength, support, and reinforcement of the first language. In other words, the better you know your first language, the faster you will learn a second one, especially if you can read in your first language! The books that I selected for this Bilingual Book Exchange contain vocabulary and grammar themes that are crucial to successful language learning. For example, the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" book contains days of the week, foods, ordinal numbers, colors, sequencing, the life cycle of the butterfly, etc. The "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" book emphasizes colors, animals, question word formation, sequencing, pronouns. etc. I plan to send one bilingual book home each week with each of my Chinese, Vietnamese,and Spanish ESL students, to share and read with their families, then to exchange it weekly for a different book.

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