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Multilingual Literacy

How to Raise a Bilingual Child – Practical guide for parents with ready-to-use activities
 
Raising multilingual and bilingual children: options
 
Pediatricians should encourage parents to use their home language with their children
 
Five Recommendations to Help Your Child Become a Future Reader (Not Bilingual but can help explain why reading is important)
 
Multilingual Learning Toolkit Resource Search
 
How Bilingual Children Learn to Read
 
Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day!
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  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Mission & History
    • Programs
    • Staff
    • Employment Opportunities & Requests for Proposals
    • Financials and Governance
    • Contact Us
  • Engagement Opportunities
    • PA AAP Projects/Initiatives- Current >
      • Achieving Chapter Equity (ACE)- Mulitilingual Literacy
      • Healthy Mental Development
      • Emerging Threats Partnership Project
    • PA AAP Projects/Initiatives- Additional
    • Committees >
      • Advocacy Committee
      • Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Committee
      • Climate & Environmental Health Committee
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
      • Early Childhood Committee
      • Educational & CME Planning Committee
      • Executive Committee
      • Foster & Kinship Care Committee
      • Governance Committee
      • Infant Safe Sleep Committee
      • School Health Committee
    • Programs
  • Advocacy
    • Become a PA AAP Advocate
    • Advocacy Action Center (PA AAP Members Only)
    • Blueprint for Children
    • Pennsylvania Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights
    • HR 1 Navigation Resources
  • Resources
    • For Providers >
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit
      • Emergency Planning and Disaster Preparedness
      • Firearm Safety Toolkit for Healthcare Providers
      • Get Out the Vote
      • Healthy Mental Development
      • Immigrant Health
      • Infant Safe Sleep
      • Immunization
      • Multilingual Literacy
      • Pediatrician Kinship Care Toolkit
      • Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Providers
      • WIC
    • For Caregivers >
      • Healthy Mental Development
      • Immigrant Health
      • Infant Safe Sleep
      • Multilingual Literacy
      • Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Caregivers
      • WIC
    • For Youth >
      • Healthy Mental Development
      • Immigrant Health
      • Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Youth
    • Health Updates and Advisories >
      • CDC Health Alerts
      • PA DOH Health Alerts
      • Philadelphia DOH Health Alerts
      • FDA Health Alerts
  • Events
    • Pediatric Conference
    • Let's Talk
  • Join PA AAP
  • News
  • Awards