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Revised ABC Book of Education Terms:
A Plain Language Guide for Parents
So much of the language of schooling and education consists of jargon and terms that are inaccessible to parents and the general public. This 36-page booklet developed by the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center contains more than 130 commonly used terms in education and defines them in easy to understand language for parents.

Additional Special Education terms have been added as well as a math glossary at the end of the booklet that contains # of commonly used terms in mathematics.


$1.25 per booklet
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A Compact for Reading: School-Home Kits
The Compact for Reading Guide offers tips on creating community and family-school partnerships with the purpose of improving children's reading. The School-Home Links Reading kits are a collection of four 100-page booklets of research-based activities designed to help families reinforce the reading and language arts skills that their children are learning at school. These kits are organized to assist children in kindergarten, first, second, and third grade.

$10.00 per book
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Summer Fun With Reading
This 12-page booklet features many fun and educational activities for parents to do with their children. Adapted from the Florida Department of Education, Office of Family Involvement by the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center, it is loaded with ideas and activities designed to help children retain literacy skills during the summer.

$0.75 per booklet
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All 5 Reading Activities PDF

Reading Activities Packet
This packet of reading activities was developed by the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center. This resource is intended for teachers to use with parents to help children's literacy skills in five areas of reading:
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension.
$4.00 per packet
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How to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader
This 14-page booklet available in English and Spanish (through the website) is a guide for parents on how they can listen to their children read, with suggestions on how to help their children with difficult words, while not stepping in and doing the reading for them.

$1.00 per booklet
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