Karen Nemeth

Best Support for Bilingual Paraprofessionals in Early Education

The Best Thing You Can Do for MLLs in the First 2 weeks of PreK/K – and how to do it!

Communicating with Families of Multilingual Learners in PreK Special Education

Many state education departments have regulations or recommendations about communicating with families of multilingual learners who have been identified as needing special educational services. For example, New Jersey special education code states:  “Written notice to...

Early Years TV Blog Post

by Karen Nemeth I was honored to have a conversation with Kathy Brodie on Early Years TV. We talked about Strategies to Engage Multilingual Learners in All Areas of Learning. Click this link to hear...

Multilingual Learners Need Materials with Intrinsic Meaning

Multilingual learners need materials with intrinsic meaning When young children are new to the language spoken by their teacher, they depend on useful materials to provide content and comprehension for their learning. That’s why I...

Celebrating a Truly Diverse Early Childhood Workforce… Like Wildflowers

Going Beyond Hello/Welcome Messages for Multilingual/Dual Language Learners

A Very Angry Preschool Song… Will it Work for Multiple Languages?

Why is this child stomping his feet? He’s doing the actions to “This is an Angry Song”. It’s a popular early years song in England. When I first heard it from my 3-year-old grandson, I...

Teachers of Young Children Need More than Translanguaging Theory

By Karen Nemeth A friend recently shared this article with me: Misunderstanding Translanguaging in Preschoolers from Good Men Project website. It discusses a study by Dr. Gabrijela Aleksić. The author describes preschool children as having...