Letters have to be written, maps have to be drawn, records have to be kept, and petitions have to be drawn up. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing become functional and purposeful. All these activities should be done in the two languages. The content is the base for constructing knowledge while knowledge is received by the learner through reading and listening or sharing with others through writing and speaking. Reading to Children Time must be found to read to children daily.
All humans have greater receptive control than productive control.
That is, they can understand through listening and reading more than they are able to produce through speaking and writing. Children can be read to from the literature of both languages that they are learning. This provides them with fine literature they cannot yet read for themselves, and it tunes their ears to structures of language and knowledge they cannot get through reading on their own. It allows learners to hear prose and poetry written in a variety of moods and styles of many different authors. This experience prepares them for their own encounters with a variety of styles in their own reading.