Language policies for multilingual families refer to the strategies and approaches that families use to support their children's language development. A language policy can help families ensure that their children have access to multiple languages and that their language skills are developed in a supportive and enriching environment.

SLP (Speech-Language Pathology) scaffolding refers to a teaching strategy used by speech therapists to help children build language skills. It involves breaking down complex language tasks into smaller, manageable parts and gradually increasing the difficulty as the child gains mastery. This approach is based on the idea that children learn best when new information is presented in a supportive and structured manner. Scaffolding techniques used by SLPs may include:

The Content-Based Approach to language acquisition is an instructional method that uses content (i.e., subject matter) as the context for language learning. This approach views language as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. It emphasizes the development of both language and content knowledge.

Raising multilingual children is easier than you might think. Every day, parents around the world are helping their kids learn another language—and it's not just because they want them to be able to converse with the natives in their new home. In fact, researchers have found that having multiple languages helps kids develop cognitive skills and make them more "global thinkers" later in life. So whether your child is bilingual from birth or only learning a second language now (or both), there are lots of ways you can make this happen!

I am a full-time working parent who homeschools my children. Before I had kids, I didn't think twice about juggling the two jobs—I just did it. But now that we've been doing it for several years, there are some things we've learned along the way that can help other parents get started on their own homeschooling journey while still working full-time!

Scientific Journaling! Keeping a scientific journal with preschoolers can be a fun and educational way to help them learn to think critically and get interested in science. Unfortunately, reading alone cannot guarantee comprehension. In other words, you never know what your child learned or understood. Only tasks and activities associated with reading can monitor content and vocabulary comprehension.Journaling allows me to track my daughter's understanding and therefore acquisition of the language. Plus it's a visual #cue #visualnotetaking for the future references and retelling. To be honest, I find it's much easier to draw things when I'm explaining then. Moreover, it also serves as a portfolio to track progress.We always work together on her journal 📓. I model first the task then let her do it independently. Also, the choice of creative material is unlimited - pens, pencils, markers, cardstock, stickers etc.etcWhat did we do?1️⃣Read (anything - science/fiction)2️⃣After each story, I ask her to draw the main character with the attributes OR scientific thing. For instance, we've drawn:- the catastrophic weathers- Germs- Protons/electrons- Planets, solar system- earth structures, landscaping- habitat⁣I also tried a conventional way of journaling to copy or to writing but at age 4+ it doesn’t work. Maybe later, so far drawing and gluing pictures is an excellent workaround.

Here are a few tips for journaling with young kids:

As a parent or caregiver, you can encourage a love of mathematics in young learners. 

The following are some suggestions for bringing up children who speak multiple languages:

Sample of informal lesson plan to teach children about different forms of energy, including kinetic (movement) and potential (stored) energy, and how energy can be transformed from one form to another.

Raising trilingual children can be a rewarding experience for both the child and the parent. Here are a few suggestions for raising trilingual children:

As children continue to grow and develop, they are ready to learn more advanced science concepts. At ages five to eight, children can begin to understand more complex science ideas, such as:

Here are a few suggestions for raising bilingual kids:

As children grow and develop, they are ready to learn more advanced science concepts. At ages three to five, children can begin to understand more complex science ideas, such as:

What science concepts can babies understand at ages one to three?

List the topics of science and math concepts kids should know at age from 5 to 10 years old

Math should be presented to kids at a time that is natural and age-appropriate for them. Here is a list of mathematical concepts that could be presented to children between the ages of zero and five:

Our multilingual family enjoys incorporating the greatest aspects of each culture. Taza, tetera, cuchara, cucharón is one of the Spanish vocabulary dances. Thus, this song is a fantastic chance to teach your children kitchen utensils if they are learning Spanish. It was also a lot of fun! 

Vygotsky's theory is considered as one of the cutting edges in the TESOL field. Remarkably but he never wrote a word about language acquisition separately. He worked with kids with impairments and delays and studied language only from this perspective.He argued that language is an external display of the internal nervous system maturation. According to him, speech development involves changes not only in the structure of language ability but also in the psychological development of the child as a whole. Language helped him to identify the zone of development of the kids with impairments and delays.Vygotsky believed that even delayed development could be improved through the sociocultural approach and described the teaching method where teachers (or adults) show or model the way how to do different things and do them together with the kids until the child learns how to do it independently. In other words, adults walk the child through the process of something. This approach received the name "SCAFFOLDING." It's probably the American-coined term because, in Russian papers, it never appeared earlier. English speaking academia used his work in association with the second language acquisition. For a couple of decades, this method was the most effective in the classrooms.Because I studied and read him in Russian long before i moved to the States, I was VERY surprised by the interpretation and application English-speaking academia gave to his work."Scaffolding" is showing the child how to do things right. It helps children to acquire knowledge beyond their current level of development.

Acorn Soup Game. The first game that I'd like to start with is The Acorn Soup by the Peaceable Kingdom.  The game is designed for toddlers, starting from the age of 2. The main idea is that a child should follow the instructions from the recipe card and cook an imaginary soup with the given ingredients.

If you are like me and always look for ideas that can make your life easier, without losing the meaning then I have a good new for us. According to the research by Dou et al. (2019) to get your kids excited about STEM the only thing we as parents should do is to talk to our kids about science. That is it! Moreover, as person who deal with kids who cannot read and write yet, I figured this idea long time ago. There is no other way to introduce STEM to 3 years olds  as to talk and model it.