Language, Love, and Lullabies...
Connect your students to international tenderness!
Elementary ESL students can benefit from a variety of modern, single, and traditional nursery rhyme choices in their classrooms: both in print and online.
Mix Language and Tradition
Students will be instantly interested in the endearing names that other countries use to refer to children and will want to share their own diverse experiences. Little Treasures expands awareness that love is universal while providing loving terms from 16 cultures. This variety book is a wonderful mix of language and tradition, and a proper inclusion in units on diversity and culture.
Ogburn, Jacqueline K. (2012). Little treasures: Endearments from around the world. Illust. by Chris Raschka. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: New York. 32p.
Introduce Modern Role Models
The bilingual author of this book, Anne Miranda, is from Madrid, Spain. Students in majority Spanish-speaking ESL programs will appreciate her modernized single version of this traditional nursery rhyme, and may see her as an excellent role model for what they can achieve in their own futures.
Miranda, Anne. (2001). To market, to market. Illust. by Janet Stevens. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: New York. 36p.
Learn English with Universal Thought
All cultures have certain stories that are passed down and perspectives of their place in the world. The author of this collection of 60 Mother Goose rhymes is also its illustrator. Both text and image selections are purposely chosen for a diverse audience, and to represent many similar places and persons in the worlds of its possible readers.
Mavor, Sally. (2010). Pocketful of Posies: A treasury of nursery rhymes. Illust. by Sally Mavor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: New York. 72p.
Don't Forget to look ONLINE (for the mice in the room)!
(Above) This classic from England can be downloaded in nine different languages at the following address: www.childrensbooksonline.org
Ivimey, John W. (1900). Three blind mice. Illus.. by Walton Corbould. Frederick Warne & Co.: London. Retrieved from http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Three_Blind_Mice/pages.
Joyeux reading!
More international rhyme!
Check out www.mamalisa.com. This website offers rhymes and music from around the world, ordered by English alphabet.
(left)Wright, Blanche Fisher. (1916). [Illustration for alphabet song]. Rand McNally & Co.: Chicago. Retrieved from Mama Lisa's World: International music and culture. http://www.mamalisa.com
All book covers provided through fair use.
by E. Layne, 2016
Email: elayn001@odu.edu
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