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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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PDF 309 KB (All Color Version)
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. |
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Family
Supported Literacy Research
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Family
Supported Literacy Resources
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Family
Supported Literacy Strategies
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Summer Fun With
Reading
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PDF .97 MB (All Color Version)
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Red Version
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
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Reading Activities
Packet
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PDF 189 KB (All 5) (See individual sections
to the left)
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
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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.
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Reading
Tips For Parents
PDF 1.92 MB
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. |
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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. |
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Helping Your Child
Become A Reader
To order via email: edpubs@inet.ed.gov
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KB
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. |
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Information
on the Kansas Reading Standards and Assessments as of July 2003
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PDF Document 96KB
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Word
Document
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on the Kansas Department of Education website |
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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
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1st Grade PDF 1.98
MB
2nd Grade PDF 1.64 MB
3rd Grade PDF
2.98 MB |
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