Beyond Bilingual: Making Storytime Friendly to Families who are English Language Learners

Printable Tip Sheets: 

Multilingual Storytime Tips, Songs, and Rhymes

Counting to Ten in Multiple Languages

BPL Song and Fingerplay Videos:

The Wheels on the Bus (English/Urdu)

Chochi Chochi Awawa (Japanese Fingerplay)

The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Hindi) 

BPL Created Storytime Resources:

• Multilingual Storytime Guide for facilitators 
• Storytime Cards 
• Storytime Songs and Rhymes 
• Multilingual Storytime Guides 

Booklists:

Near Wordless Books 

Picture Books that are Easy to Sing

Picture Books With Multilingual Content

Easy to Read Bilingual Picture Books

Picture Books About Immigration Stories, Borders, Seeking Asylum and the Migrant Experience

Culturally representative board books from Barefoot Books

Bilingual Board Books from Barefoot Books in multiple languages 

Bilingual Spanish Books from Child's Place

Tips for communicating with English Language Learners and Outreach to Immigrants

• ESOL Tip Sheet for Librarians 
• Deficit and Asset-based Approaches.docx  
• ESL Program Guilde for Public Libraries (Transparent Language)

Multilingual Song/Rhyme videos from other library systems: 

• Songs and Early Literacy Tips in 10 Languages (video) 
• Multilingual Mother Goose 

Vendor suggestions:

• Uncle Goose multilingual blocks
• Multicultural Food Sets (Discount School Supply)
• Putumayo World Music 
• Anti-Bias Toys 
• Recommended publishers and book vendors 

Articles and Research: 

School Library Journal July 2017: Beyond Bilingual by Rachel Payne and Jessica Ralli 

Toolkits and Services:

ALA Toolkit for Serving English Language Learners 

ELL Roundtable Resources: Colorin Colorado