Handbook for 
     Bilingual  
     Pre-primary 
     Education
     Written by
     Jenni Kohl
     Christopher Pape-Mustonen
     Hanna-Kaisa Rautio
       Handbook for Bilingual Pre-primary Education 
       Written by
       Jenni Kohl
       Christopher Pape-Mustonen
       Hanna-Kaisa Rautio
       The Handbook for Bilingual Pre-primary Education has been 
       created in the Helsinki oppii kielillä 3 development project, 
       financed by Finnish National Agency of Education. 
       This handbook can be freely used for non-commercial 
       purposes. It may not be used for commercial purposes.
       This handbook has been licenced under Creative Commons 
       licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0  
       (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)  
       https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
                                    Preface
                                     
                                    Bilingual pre-primary education started in 2017 in Helsinki. 
                                    Based on that need, this handbook was created to support 
                                    English language-enriched and bilingual pre-primary 
                                    education. The target language in this handbook is English 
                                    but it can be adapted to other target languages as well.
                                    The project group consisted of pre-primary and language 
                                    teachers who are experienced in teaching in language-
                                    enriched and bilingual programs. The handbook aims to 
                                    be very concrete and offer an easy access for teachers in 
                                    bilingual pre-primary education.   
                                    We are very thankful for the financial support that we 
                                    received from the Finnish National Agency of Education for 
                                    the development project Helsinki oppii kielillä 3, through 
                                    which the making of this handbook was funded.
                                    Above all, I would like to thank the members of the project 
                                    group for their hard work, engagement and enthusiasm 
                                    in the making of this handbook. It was a great pleasure to 
                                    work with you Chris, Hansu and Jenni. 
                                    Helsinki, June 2021
                                    Tiia Huotari        
                                    Development Services
                                    City of Helsinki - Education Division
                                                                        City of Helsinki – Education Division Handbook for Bilingual Pre-primary Education CC BY-NC-SA 4.0      1
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