Jonathan Keller and Isabel Lopes, two local parents with children at the International Charter School of Pawtucket wanted a way to share reading resources and encourage reading among families with connections to or interest in the Portuguese language. They started the “bilingual” blog icsportugues.blogspot.com full of online resources for parents and caregivers who would like to read more with their children in Portuguese.
They are passionate about their mission. Future plans include encouraging and promoting the benefits of reading aloud quality Portuguese picture books with children/grandchildren to preserve linguistic/cultural heritage, raising awareness of the existing campaigns to increase/promote reading in Brazil and Portugal (and expanding the reach of those efforts to the Portuguese speaking community in the US), help public libraries acquire more quality Portuguese children’s literature, and establish volunteer-led Portuguese story-times in local libraries.
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magnificent put up, very informative. I wonder why the other specialists of this sector don’t realize this. You should proceed your writing. I’m confident, you have a great readers’ base already!
So excited we’re going to make a little event out of it and invite the baby cousins & their avo & papa..can’t wait!
This is wonderful!! I will definitely try to make it to story hour! Thanks for telling me about this Carla!
Hi Carla,
Please join us for our first BilingualStoryhour presentation–Childrens books and songs in Portuguese & English
Saturday, March 26 · 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Location: Weaver library
40 Grove St
East Providence, RI
http://www.eastprovidencelibrary.org/
Thanks so much for posting this! We’re raising our two daughters bilingual (Spanish/English) but we’d love to expose them to Portuguese as well since my husband’s family is from Portugal. We’ll be checking the site out at the great-grandparents’ house for sure.