With Flying Colors: Color Idioms (A Multicultural Book)

What does it mean to have a green thumb?

How do you show your true colors?

Idioms can be confusing, but they help you to understand English and are a lot of fun to learn!

With clever multicultural illustrations, idiom meanings, and example sentences, With Flying Colors explains common color idioms in a way that makes them easy to understand. It's a perfect book to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students.

With Flying Colors includes bonus material to support English language learners and promote culturally responsive teaching, such as links to:

• English audio of the book
• Information about the history of the idioms in the book
• Additional color idioms, their meaning, and history
• Lesson plans to help teach idioms while exposing children to other cultures

With Flying Colors is a great resource to build language skills while having fun!

Anneke Forzani is the author of "Building Bridges with Bilingual Books and Multicultural Resources," a popular manual for educators promoting culturally responsive teaching. She is the President and Founder of Language Lizard (www.languagelizard.com), which provides multicultural resources in over 50 languages to schools, libraries, and literacy organizations. She has presented workshops about using multicultural resources in diverse classrooms at educational conferences. She also writes about multicultural issues online and manages the blog Supporting Multicultural Classrooms & Bilingual Families at blog.languagelizard.com.

Dmitry Fedorov is a professional artist and illustrator. He creates both digital concept art as well as illustrations using traditional instruments such as pencils, markers, soft pastel, charcoal, watercolor and oil paint.