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AFT Toolkit Colorín Colorado - AFT Toolkit for Teachers: Reaching Out to Hispanic Parents of English Language Learners.
This toolkit includes background information on reaching out to Hispanic parents, four sample workshops, video clips in Spanish and English, and bilingual handouts.
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How to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader

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Spanish Version PDF 340KB
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This 14-page booklet 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.

Family Supported Literacy Research Handout

Family Supported Literacy Research
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Family Supported Literacy Resources Family Supported Literacy Resources
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Family Supported Literacy Strategies Handout Family Supported Literacy Strategies
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Summer Fun with Reading (Full Color) Summer Fun With Reading
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Spanish Version PDF 65.4 KB
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. Note: the Black, White and Red version is available to order at $0.75 per booklet. First copy free! Click here to order.
All 5 Reading Activities PDF
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Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
All 5 Sections
Additions
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
All 5 Sections
 
Reading Activities Packet
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This packet of reading activities was developed by the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center. Parents can do these activities with their children to reinforce literacy skills in five areas of reading:
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension
The downloadable file is in black and white for your convenience--feel free to make copies! (We used the fun colors pictured, but feel free to pick your own!) You may download all 5 activities or you may download each individual section.

Additions to the Reading Activities Packet
Download PDF 308 KB (All 5) (See individual sections to the left)
This packet of additional Reading Activities was developed from contributions from educators throughout the state who attended Parent Involvement and DIBELS trainings hosted by KPIRC.
Reading Tips for Parents Reading Tips For Parents
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This 16-page booklet, in English and Spanish, gives many suggestions that you can share with parents on how they can help their children be ready to read and ready to learn. It also shares information about quality reading programs and lists strategies for creating strong readers.
Put Reading First Put Reading First
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This eight-page document, written for parents of children from pre-school through grade three, provides an explanation of the five components of reading: 1) phonemic awareness, 2) phonics, 3) vocabulary, 4) fluency, and 5) comprehension and shares information on what parents can do to understand and support their children's reading, both in school and at home.
Helping Your child Become a Reader
Helping Your Child Become A Reader
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Spanish version
These resources from the U.S. Dept of Education, available in English and Spanish, are useful when working with parents of ELL students, or could be used as primers for teaching and reinforcing adult literacy skills.

Information on the Kansas Reading Standards and Assessments as of July 2003
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Listed on the Kansas Department of Education website

A Compact For Reading

A Compact For Reading School-Home Links
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 research-based activities designed to help families reinforce the reading and language arts skills that their children are learning at school. The kits are organized to assist children in kindergarten, first, second, and third grade.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/

Compact for Reading (3 sections)
Section 1 PDF 96.9 KB
Section 2 PDF 249 KB
Section 3
PDF 296 KB
School Home Links

Kindergarten PDF 1.62 MB
1st Grade PDF 1.98 MB
2nd Grade PDF 1.64 MB
3rd Grade PDF
2.98 MB
Spanish Version
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/vinculo/kit_indx.html
Kindergarten PDF 1.62 MB
1st Grade PDF 1.98 MB
2nd Grade PDF 1.64 MB
3rd Grade PDF
2.98 MB

     
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