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Getting Teachers Ready to Teach Young DLLs:

A Professional Development Resource Kit

Available on the iBook Store and iTunes for any iPad running iBooks 2 and iOS 5.

Recommended Resources

A page full of links and resources from NAEYC focusing on engaging diverse families in early childhood education:

    NAEYC Family Engagement

A catalog of children’s books in many different languages:

    Language Lizard.com

A paper by Linda Espinosa: Challenging Common Myths about Young English Language Learners

A new book by Linda Espinosa: Getting it Right for Young Children from Diverse Backgrounds

A catalog of multicultural products for early childhood

    Creative Diversity Multicultural Products for Early Childhood

Resources about Early Childhood Education for English language learners collected by the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition

1. National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
   

A report on two-way dual language immersion preschool programs: Two-way and Monolingual English Immersion in Preschool Education: An Experimental Comparison

One Child, Two Languages: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language 2nd edition (2008) Patton O. Tabors.

Compilation of current research by Garcia and Frede: Young English Language Learners: Current Research and Emerging Directions for Practice and Policy

Division for Early Childhood's special education position statement (September 2010) - Responsiveness to ALL Children, Families and Professionals:  Integrating Cultural and Linguistic Diversity into Policy and Practice