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Reading Help
- The Compact for Reading Guide is a user-friendly handbook designed to walk your family-school compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading.
- Early Childhood Activity Calendar which is filled with helpful tips and special activities that promote reading and language skills for young children. Calendar sheets for June 1998 to May 1999.
- Family Times - Scott Foresman says that you are your child's first and best teacher. To help you, they provide activity sheets (in .pdf format) which you can print for use at home. Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade
- Helping children learn about reading
- Helping your child learn to read – A parent's guide
- Helping Children with Learning Disabilities to Succeed - Learning To Read/Reading To Learn
- Is your child ready for Kindergarten? - The Get Ready to Read! Screening Tool has a sample question and 20 items. Each item is a set of four pictures and a question. Read the question aloud while your child looks at the pictures. Your child answers by pointing to or clicking on one of the 4 pictures and then clicking the Next button. When you've finished all 20 items, the screener will be scored automatically.
- Literacy and numeracy tip sheets for parents - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
- Parental Involvement - 100 School-Home Links activities for the kindergarten level. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. From the U.S. Department of Education. (for first grade parents) (for second grade parents) (for third grade parents)
- National Center for Family Literacy - Literacy is a legacy that can be passed from parent to child. But the barriers associated with low literacy - poverty, unemployment, low self-esteem, school failure - are also handed down from generation to generation. Children whose parents lack basic literacy skills often grow up to face similar challenges, perpetuating a cycle of disadvantage.
- Parents helping children learn to read (tips provided by Irvine Unified School District in Texas)
- Tips for Reading to Your Child
- Phrases that Encourage
- Questions that Encourage Conversation about Reading
- Concepts about Print
- Phonemic Awareness Activities For 4-5-6 Year Olds
- Phonemic Awareness Activities For 6-7 Year Olds
- Bibliography: K-3 Phonemic Awareness
- Ten Tips: Helping Your Child Read Effectively
- Breaking the Sound-It-Out Barrier
- Reading Tips for Parents, Primary Caregivers, and Educators
- Helping Children Develop Oral-Language Skills
- Simple Things You Can Do To Help All Children Read Well and Independently by the End of the Third Grade.
- Tutor Training Activities from NWREL - Parents, consider yourselves tutors and look at some of the activities that the North West Regional Educational Laboratory suggests.
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Mathematics Help
- Cool Math for Parents has some suggestions for helping with homework and suggestions to help little ones get ready for Kindergarten.
- Helping Children Learn at Home: Math and Science Tips for Young Children
- Helping Your Child Learn Math
- Helping your child learn math – A parent's guide
- Literacy and numeracy tip sheets for parents - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
- Math and Young Children - a list of links classified by age level
- Math for the Fun of It
- Math, Science, And Girls: Can We Close The Gender Gap? From the National Network for Child Care's Connections Newsletter.
- Teaching children mathematics
- Teaching Math to Young Children - This is one of a series of webpages to help students understand math, and to help parents teach their children math.
- Teach multiplication tables
