Si‘ilata, Rae KJacobs, Mary MGaffney, Janet SAseta, MarthaHansell, Kyla2023-05-152023-05-152023-03-27The Reading Teacher, ISSN: 0034-0561 (Print); 1936-2714 (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1002/trtr.21950034-05611936-2714https://hdl.handle.net/10292/16138The Pasifika Early Literacy Project supports teachers to make space for the languages and cultures of Pacific children and families in early childhood settings in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dual-language books in five Pacific languages and English validate Pacific children's languages, literacies, and identities. We highlight teacher practices following professional learning and development workshops. Teachers are invited to challenge dominant monocultural notions of language and literacy that perpetuate educational inequities. Illustrations of early childhood teachers' innovations with Pacific children (aged 2–6 years) demonstrate how dual-language texts can be connected to families' embodied cultural literacies. Understandings of “literacy” and “reading” were expanded to include children's expressive modalities through oral and visual texts in heritage languages and English. This work highlights the role of teachers to connect, rather than replace, the worldviews, languages, and literacies of families with the pedagogical practices of early childhood settings.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy3903 Education Systems39 EducationPediatric4 Quality Education1301 Education Systems1302 Curriculum and PedagogyEducation3901 Curriculum and pedagogy3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy3903 Education systemsJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1002/trtr.2195