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52 Ways to help your child

Bilingual Education

If your child studies English as a second language:
  1. Provide the opportunity to listen to songs, poems, stories, or plays in English through the use of tapes, television and radio.
  2. Read to your child in the home language. Doing so will help prepare them to learn to read in English.
If your child is learning a foreign language:
  1. Ask the local bookstore clerk if there are games or flash cards in that language. Borrow simple foreign-language tapes (recommended by the teacher) from the public library.
  2. Encourage your child to acquire a "pen pal" in a country or from another school district which is of particular interest to the child or the language being studied.

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