Inside Our Classrooms/Navajo Language
Leupp Schools, Inc.
Navajo Language
Updates, Events, and Academic Highlights
Academic Updates
Diné Bizaad — the Navajo language — is taught here as a living language and as a way of understanding who we are. Students learn to listen, speak, read, and write in Navajo, and they learn the teachings, clan relationships, and values that the language carries. Language is how K’é is passed forward.
Students develop:
- Listening comprehension and everyday conversation
- Greetings, introductions, and clan (k’é) relationships
- Vocabulary for family, home, land, weather, animals, and daily life
- Reading and writing in the Navajo alphabet, including tone and length markings
- Songs, stories, and the teachings held in the language
- Pride and confidence in speaking Diné Bizaad
We partner closely with families — the language grows fastest when it is spoken at home as well as at school.
Support at Home
Parents can help by:
- Speak Navajo at home whenever you can, even a few words at a time.
- Ask your child to teach you what they learned this week — teaching it back is how it sticks.
- Practice greetings and clan introductions together.
- Connect your child with grandparents and elders who speak the language.
- Label things around the house in Navajo.
- Listen to Navajo radio, music, and stories together.
- Be patient with mistakes — speakers are made by speaking, not by being correct the first time.