This document outlines strategies for teaching mother tongue languages. It discusses the goals of developing literacy, numeracy, and language skills in early grades to facilitate learning other languages. It emphasizes integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through activities like storytelling, poems, games, and worksheets. Specific strategies described include using color-coded texts, dramatic reading, interactive boards, and relating lessons to students' lives. The document also provides guidelines for planning lessons, including objectives, materials, procedures like unlocking words and comprehension questions, and assessments like story maps and sequencing events.