Language is a core component of cultural identity. By valuing our cultures, we recognize the importance of preserving and promoting the languages that embody our cultures. In this set of activities, parents can find different ways to connect children with their heritage to encourage mutual respect and understanding of their own family practices, habits, traditions and cultural manifestations. Making strong connections with their cultures while learning a language, enhance problem-solving skills, and a great social adaptability for children.  

Parents/caregivers: When you click on each grade level, a 5-page pdf document will download. You are free to practice as many activities as you can for 5 weeks. For each week, you will have 7 options to choose from: Daily Care Routines, Homework Routines, Mealtime Routines, Play and Leisure Routines, Outside Routines, Walking/Driving/Bus Routines and Anytime! 

Teachers: Each set of activities has been developed to help you create opportunities for parent engagement beyond the classroom walls. These activities are thought to support multilingual children’s language and literacy development at home. Each set is based on content from the All Ohio Literacy Learning Modules-Multilingual Series. 

Click on each language below to display the grade levels – PreK, K-2 and 3-5 and download a set of activities in English, Arabic, Somali, Chinese, Spanish or Japanese.