Elementary Resources for Students & Parents

Arlington Public Library Learn Languages website: https://library.arlingtonva.libguides.com/aboutmango
Arlington Public Library offers various ways of learning and practicing language, especially for children.
BBC Languages website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages
This site has resources, review games, and teaching videos in more than 30 languages.
Brain Pop websites:
- en español: https://esp.brainpop.com/
- en français: https://www.brainpop.fr/
  These sites have videos, quizzes and reading material in Spanish and French across subject areas.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages website: https://www.actfl.org/advocacy/discover-languages/advocacy/discover-languages/what-the-research-shows/references-cognitive#improves_cognitive
This website has many articles to show cognitive improvements as a result of learning another language.
Brain benefits of being bilingual article: https://todayhealth.today.com/_news/2013/01/08/16416451-being-bilingual-can-keep-your-brain-young-sharp?lite
This article demonstrates some of the ways that speaking another language can have positive effects on the brain.
The Atlantic Times article on brain benefits for multilinguals: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/more-languages-better-brain/381193/?single_page=true&google_editors_picks=true