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Learn More about COLLTS PreK Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
Learn More about COLLTS PreK Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
Lee & Low Books is the exclusive publisher of the American Institutes for Research preschool curriculum, Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talents in Students (COLLTS). Today we’re sharing frequently asked questions about the curriculum.
Is COLLTS only for dual language learners?
No! The Center for English Learners at the American Institutes for Research designed the COLLTS PreK curriculum…
Introducing COLLTS, a New PreK Dual Language Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
Introducing COLLTS, a New PreK Dual Language Curriculum from the American Institutes for Research
The Center for English Learners at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) released its newest curriculum for Preschool learners!
Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talents in Students (COLLTS) is an early childhood curriculum available exclusively from Bebop Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books. Through the use of interactive reading with outstanding children’s literature and nonfiction,…
STEM Diverse Books for Grades 6 - 8+
STEM Diverse Books for Grades 6 – 8+
School is back in session, so it’s time to rouse those hungry minds with our STEM diverse reading list and collection! There’s something for every student within these vibrant stacks of books. Animals, architects, engineers, surgeons, economists, environmentalists, and more fill the pages of these engaging, diverse reads.
In this blog post, we’ve rounded up STEM books for grades 6-8+. You can…
STEM Diverse Books for Grades 3 - 5
STEM Diverse Books for Grades 3 – 5
School is back in session, so it’s time to rouse those hungry minds with our STEM diverse reading list and collection! There’s something for every student within these vibrant stacks of books. Animals, architects, engineers, surgeons, economists, environmentalists, and more fill the pages of these engaging, diverse reads.
In this blog post, we’ve rounded up STEM books for grades 3-5. You can find…
STEM Diverse Reading Books for Grades PreK-2
STEM Diverse Reading Books for Grades PreK-2
School is back in session, so it’s time to rouse those hungry minds with our STEM Diverse Reading List and collection! There’s something for every student within these vibrant stacks of books. Animals, architects, engineers, surgeons, economists, environmentalists, and more fill the pages of these engaging, diverse reads. The list includes bilingual English/Spanish titles and features innovators…
On Sunday, Chileans elected Elisa Loncon, a Mapuche activist, professor, and linguist, to lead their constitutional convention. After a year of protests over income inequality sparked initially by a raise in subway fare, Chileans are holding a convention with elected representatives to re-write the old constitution left to them by the Pinochet dictatorship. The election of a woman from Chile’s largest indigenous group is an incredible gesture that, just a few years ago, would have seemed unfathomable.
As a linguist and professor, one of the many changes she advocates for is minority language rights. In her acceptance speech, she uses several words and phrases from Mapudungun. There are approximately 250,000 speakers of Mapudungun in Chile and Argentina, despite colonial practices that sought to eradicate the language. Here is what she says:
Feley = así está, así es
Mari mari (pu lamngen) = hello (brothers & sisters)
Mari mari (kom pu che) = hello (everyone)
Mari mari (Chile mapu*) = hello Chile
She then begins to greet each part of Chile by region (I don’t know enough Mapudungun to transcribe that accurately) before repeating the same greeting in Spanish.
At the end of her speech, she again speaks Mapudungun, using a slogan that has been popular on the Latin American left for decades:
Marichiweu = diez veces venceremos!
*Mapu means “earth,” and “che” means “person,” therefore Mapuche means “people of the earth.” The ancestral territory of the Mapuche is called Wallmapu (roughly, “universe”), and is located in southern Chile and Argentina.
