Explore the list of resources to think of additional ways to support the cognitive development of every child in your program.
- Children’s Books to Support Anti-bias Education
This site provides a list of children’s books selected by the co-author of Anti-bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves. It offers suggestions for Culture and Language, Racial Identity, Gender Roles, Economic Class, Abilities and Disabilities, Family Structure, Holidays, Activism, and Infant/Toddler Books. http://www.childpeacebooks.org/cpb/Protect/antiBias.php
- Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Publications
This website, created by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers ideas and booklists for enriching your classroom library. https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/
- Language Castle
This website, blog, and book (Many Languages, One Classroom: Teaching Dual and English Language Learners) offer suggestions for supporting children who are learning English. https://www.languagecastle.com/
- National Head Start Office Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) Cultural & Language
This website has a variety of tools. This includes a downloadable Program Preparedness Checklist: Serving Dual Language Learners and their Families. It also offers information on appropriate assessment, planning, and teaching children who are learning English.
https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/culture-language
- Colorin Colorado: Helping Children Read…and Succeed!
This website is a bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners. It offers book lists for a variety of topics. These include holidays (Day of the Dead, Ramadan, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year), family structures (Grandma’s/Grandpa’s Stories, Reading with Dad), and experiences (beach stories, immigrant stories, snow). https://www.colorincolorado.org/?langswitch=en
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