Free Read with MEE webinar on multilingual children’s literacy development

On Tuesday 27 January 2026, everyone is welcome to participate in an online webinar to mark the launch of the new free handbook from the Read with MEE project. The handbook provides access to best practices and recent developments in the field of literacy, linguistic diversity and research into multilingualism. The handbook will be made available free of charge on the Read with MEE website.

The webinar will feature contributions from teacher practitioners on interactive story reading and other practices which foster literacy in multilingual classrooms in the early years.

The webinar will be opened by Prof. Lorna Carson of Trinity College Dublin and will take place on 27 January 2026 from 4:15 to 5:00 p.m. CET. To receive the ZOOM link, please enter your email address here.

The Erasmus+ project Read with Multilingual Early Education (Read with MEE) will develop innovative tools and resources to advance key literacy skills of young multilingual children (2-6 y/o). The project responds to a pressing challenge, since children who grow up multilingually often face unequal educational opportunities compared to their monolingual peers. In order to support the development of multilingual children’s early literacy skills, the project promotes the use of children’s home languages during reading as well as the use of a dialogic reading approach. By including their home languages in reading, the Read with MEE project focusses on key European priorities, such as inclusion and diversity in education, and the tackling of children’s low proficiency in basic skills.

Read with MEE is a cooperation between six partners representing the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and Spain. They are ATiT (BE), NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (NL), 8D (NL), Trinity College Dublin (IE), University of the Basque Country (ES) and of course the Mercator Europeesk Kennissintrum foar Meartaligens en Taallearen (Fryske Akademy) in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (NL).

Read more information at Mercators project page or on the Read with MEE website.