We’re starting off the week with an admittedly nerdy post about using Twitter as a tool for charting your child’s language development. This article from the blog Digital Coaching contains a step by step explanation of how parents with a little extra time on their hands (ha, ha) can use Twitter to keep a record of their children’s budding vocabulary. The article is geared toward monolingual households, although the same principles can be easily applied to bilingual families. The graphing function is an especially useful tool, as it provides an encouraging visual aid for parents and a neat record for kids when they’re old enough to appreciate it. This sort of record keeping can also be a very useful reference should your child ever present any language development difficulties. If any of you decide to give Twitter language charting a try, please be sure to drop us a line to tell us if it’s as interesting in practice as it is in theory.

As for those of you who, like myself not too long ago, are just beginning to discover the wonderful world of Twitter, we’ve found it’s an excellent source of information on all sorts of topics such as bilingualism and early literacy. If you don’t already have an account, it’s really easy to set one up here. Whether you’re an experienced tweeter or a new convert, please be sure to follow the Bilingual Readers (@bilingualrdrs) team for all sorts of interesting links and articles!