Explore this resource guide to help training and technical assistance providers implement the Planned Language Approach’s Big 5. Use the series in professional development, coaching, and peer learning communities.

Discover ways promote a program-wide coordinated approach to supporting dual language learners and their families.

Caregivers and teachers, even when they do not know the home language of children, can use a number of effective strategies throughout the day to support the children’s English language development.

Babies are born “citizens of the world.” Children can tell the difference between all the sounds in all the world’s languages at birth.

For an adult, trying to learn a second language can be a difficult task. Young children have a much easier time learning languages than adults. They learn language by having ample opportunities to hear speech from adults and peers.