Hello everyone. This year, I have a new role in my school and I am in charge of helping our students develop their cultural capital , and...

When we are raising multi-literate children, we are bound to create a bookshelf with books in multiple languages. In this post, I am...

Once our children start to be able to read relatively confidently in our languages it is important to keep practising. Reading is not...

We all want our multilingual children to grow up empowered by their languages. But the multilingual / multi-literacy journey is not easy....

Especially when we follow the OPOL method and only communicate in one language with our children, wondering if reading a book in another...

When we start on the multi-literacy journey we are full of motivation, plan many activities, and spend (a lot of) time doing it. But...

The multi-literacy journey is a bumpy road. There are many ups and downs, and every big(ger) challenge can make us feel like the journey...

If this is the question you are asking yourself, I congratulate you on wondering WHEN you should start teaching your child to read and...

Writing demands a lot more effort and accuracy than reading. It is therefore very common to see children who like (or even LOVE) to read,...

When our children are little, we read books to/with them that have illustrations covering a whole page, accompanied by a couple of short...

I grew up bilingual, in France. When I was in primary school, I had the chance to attend a Japanese complementary school. Then, from the...

In January, many people make new year’s resolutions. And if you are reading this blog post, chances are that one of them is to teach your...

In Autumn 2020, I was asked to be one of the beta-readers of The Toolbox for Multilingual Families partly due to my familiarity with two...

To help a learner (child or older) remember the spelling of a word, or the way a character is written (especially with complex Chinese...

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink it” is a proverb that often pops up in my mind whenever I teach my students...

The travel restrictions imposed by the Corona Virus in the past couple of years has made it very difficult for families spread around the...

If you asked me which book has had the most profound impact on my parenting style, I would say that, although it does not fall into this...

Writing accurately is important. There is no doubt about it. And in school, we have probably all gone through the dreaded dictation or...

When we think about teaching our children to read, we often wonder how we can teach them to recognise the letters or characters of our...

Learning to read and write in hard. And especially when a bilingual / multilingual child can already read in a the school language, it...