This document provides an overview of a curriculum for preschool bilingual education using CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) methodology. It was developed by preschool institutions in Greece, Poland, Romania and Turkey as part of an Erasmus+ project. The curriculum contains 9 chapters covering topics like educational systems, bilingual preschool education approaches, second language acquisition, and teaching methods. It is intended to provide preschool teachers with resources for implementing high-quality bilingual programs where English is taught for 30-60 minutes per day through games, songs, stories and hands-on activities. The goal is to help young children start developing proficiency in both their native language and English.

3. Curriculum for Preschool Bilingual Education
CLIL is produced by Bilingual education: a step ahead
Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the
European Union.
It is a comprehensive collection of knowledge-
building and daily practice resources that explains the
what, how, and why of teaching English as a Second
Language to preschool speakers of other languages, using
CLIL Methodology.

4. It brings together the experiences and
knowledge gained through the Erasmus+
Bilingual education: a step ahead Project and
focused on the implementation of CLIL in Early
Childhood Education.
This Framework has been developted by all
the preschool institutions from Greece, Poland,
Romania and Turkey.

5. It contains useful information preschool
teachers need to know in order to build and
implement a high-quality preschool bilingual
program.
It is designed to offer a great support for
preschool teachers working in classrooms where
other language is spoken, but they want to
implement bilingual education.

6. A good bilingual preschool program is an
excellent way to support the development of
preschoolers in their native language and also
jump-start them toward a future of fully bilingual
professional adults.

7. Content and Language Integrated Learning
(CLIL) represents the best framework in terms of a
content-based bilingual approach. CLIL may be the
best-fit methodology for language teaching and
learning in a multilingual Europe.
CLIL promotes a natural and holistic approach.
Using CLIL in kindergarten may have success
because at preschool level the methodology is
holistic and preschoolers learn in real experiences
and tasks.

8. The typical models for preschool level are
language showers and totally early immersion.
Language showers represent daily
lessons/activities and totally early immersion
starts in kindergarten or in the first primary grade.
Language showers for preschool education
are aimed at boosting natural use of English and a
good attitude towards English learning.

9. For Bilingual education: a step ahead
Erasmus+ project, the CLIL model used is
language showers.
Language showers are about 30 to 60 minutes
expose a day, using games, nursery rhymes,
songs, visuals, animated stories for children,
handling objects/toys, movement.

10. The Curriculum for Preschool Bilingual
Education CLIL contains nine chapters which reffer to:
Educational System
Preschool Educational System
The Curriculum Content

11.  Bilingual Preschool Education focused on:
 Why English? 10 Reasons to Learn English
 CLIL Method on Bilingual Teaching
 Five Steps to have an Exceptional Bilingual
Space and a Successful Bilingual Preschool
Program
 Daily Routine
 Parent Involvement in Bilingual Education

12. Second Language Acquisition Development
in Early Years
 English Language Acquisition as a Second
Language Steps
 Comprehension of Second Language
 Communication in Second Language
Teaching Methods, Techniques, Procedures

13. On long term, the qualitative development of
educational services for early education,
including learning English at early ages, will
ensure all children a successful school start.
Turn every minute of the day into English
learning opportunities for your preschoolers!