English Learners Love Family Storytelling Night Too!

Thinking of Hosting a BILINGUAL
Family Storytelling Night?

 
 

Expect SUCCESS if you Do!

 A bilingual Family Storytelling Night® event—and/or the supporting SYSTEM/KIT for programs that qualify for ongoing, year-round story-sharing supports—takes place when participating families speak two or more languages (such as English–Spanish or Korean–Russian–English).
 
For reasons that are hard to quantify—but likely because everyone leans in and listens more closely when storytellers are English learners and immigrant parents—bilingual Family Storytelling Nights are often among the most joyful and engaging of all. This holds true across ESL programming for ELL/EL and Dual Language (DL) programs, as well as in K–12 school settings.
 
FYI: Patrick once facilitated a bilingual Family Storytelling Night on the Island of Saipan — as the invited guest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Public School System — at which more than 14 native languages were spoken!
 

Continues at Home…

The storytelling tradition born at Family Storytelling Night (in your classroom, lunchroom, gym, or other meeting space) grows and bears fruit for the families at home after the event — in the form of continuing family-literacy enhancement, school/community connection and an ongoing celebration of individual, family, and community history/heritage/culture.

This is especially true if you augment, replace, or extend an initial fully-facilitated Family Storytelling Night event with the SYSTEM of supports offered to select programs/schools to further empower your families and community partners to maximize the benefits of interactive story sharing all year long.

Families thrive when programs and schools connect them to meaningful supports in their communities that really work.  Family Storytelling Night events — tried, tested, and perfected for 20+ years — are especially useful for programs and schools serving bilingual and immigrant families.

See more information about Family Storytelling Night.

 

Everyone Has a Story to Tell.

Reserve Your Family Storytelling Night® Today!