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Improving Writing Skills with Treasure Hunts

18/4/2022

By Ana Elisa Miranda, Ute Limacher-Riebold and Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori

A Treasure Hunt is a series of written clues that lead to a treasure. This treasure can be any object, which will be hidden somewhere in your house or wherever you are going to play.

It’s a great opportunity to engage our children in reading and writing, and to develop confidence in creating and playing with languages.

In this video, we talk about:

How to play Treasure Hunt
How to support the writing process by using a template
How this activity can benefit our children’s spelling and writing skills
How this activity builds confidence
Different ways to play with

Young children
Beginning or emergent writers
More confident writers
Teenagers

Going beyond the template and being creative

Have you played Treasure Hunt with your children?
Will you try a different way to play?
Let us know in the comments!

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Resources:
How to make a treasure hunt for kids
Scavenger Hunt Fun
How to sneak in literacy in your multilingual home
How to build your child’s writing confidence
What if my child is reluctant to read and write in our home language?

Find hundreds of activity ideas for your multilingual family on our books:

The Toolbox for Multilingual Families
The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children

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Reading aloud with multilingual children (of all ages)

26/3/2022

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By Ana Elisa Miranda, Ute Limacher-Riebold and Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori

Reading aloud is one of the most powerful things we can do to support language and literacy development.

This simple activity has an incredible impact on vocabulary, knowledge, confidence, emotional connection between children and adults, and much more.

For a multilingual family, reading aloud in different languages is like a window into different cultures and into the sounds, rhythm, words, structure and beauty of each language.

By reading aloud together we enrich and empower our children's language skills, helping them grow into confident multilinguals.

In this video, we talk about:

How to read aloud and make it engaging.
Why reading aloud is important in a multilingual family.
Which language we should read in.
The overall benefits of reading aloud with our children.
How we can read together with our children when they are:

- Babies
- Toddlers and pre-school children
- School-aged children and teenagers

We also give tips on how to support children who read in different scripts. So, stick to the end and don’t miss these!

Watch the video here and let us know in the comments: what’s your top tip for reading with children?

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How to help our children with pronunciation in a playful way

3/3/2022

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A Tongue Twister is a sentence that has repeated sounds, which make it difficult to say without stumbling.

Tongue twisters are good for improving pronunciation and speaking skills. They are like physical exercises, as we strengthen and stretch the muscles involved in speech when we try to articulate them. This muscle exercise leads to a clearer pronunciation, to clearer speech patterns and helps to rectify sounds that could be hard for us to articulate.

Tongue twisters challenge our capacity to enunciate the individual sounds in each word so we don't trip up, they force us to pay careful attention to the precise sounds in each word.

They are not only a good exercise for beginners in the target language, but also for those whose articulation is affected, for example by retainers or tooth gaps.
Tongue Twisters are also a great warm up for actors, singers and public speakers!
When playing with Tongue Twisters, the aim is to enunciate the sentence as quickly as possible without making mistakes.

The fun part is that it is a tricky exercise for everyone! Even proficient speakers! So it can help children be less afraid of making mistakes and just give it a go.

Do you play tongue twisters with your children?
Which tongue twisters do you remember from your childhood?
What tongue twisters do you know in your other languages?

In this video we share some easy and fun ways to use tongue twisters with your children in all their languages.

You can find tongue twisters in over 100 languages here:
https://www.tongue-twister.net

Have fun with your languages!

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