Resources For Early Childhood

Parent Leadership: Successful Strategies

Although public policies governing education, health and human services and family support have promoted parent leadership for years, State and local programs often have encountered many challenges in engaging parents in leadership roles. This “successful strategies” document shares lessons from parents and organizations that have led the way. It is designed to help Community-Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) programs promote and expand parent leadership.

Filed under Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with leadership parent involvement Parent Involvement Plan on January 26, 2010 #

Circles of Caring: What Child Abuse Prevention Looks Like

The West Virginia Prevent Child Abuse America Chapter has created a short video based on the Strengthening Families Protective Factors. It is a powerful combination of the recent Frameworks reframing research blended with the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Protective Factors framework.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with protective factors child abuse prevention social/emotional on January 26, 2010 #

Reading Tip Sheets for Parents

Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in eleven languages!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood Espanol and tagged with early literacy fluency phonemic awareness phonics literacy reading on January 15, 2010 #

Born Learning: Your Child At...Series

Throughout the early years, your child will grow and change tremendously. For more information about your child’s age and stage, use the following tools. Includes information on development, immunization schedules, discipline, and more!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with development immunizations parenting on January 14, 2010 #

A Place of Our Own

KCET’s A Place of Our Own (and Los Niños en Su Casa in Spanish) is a daily television series, a website, and an extensive outreach program devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children. Family, friends and neighbors – everyone who takes care of young children – are child care providers. Every interaction and every activity of these adults with their charges provide valuable opportunities to help children learn and grow. A Place of Our Own shares ways for us all to help children acquire cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills, as well as nurture language and literacy development.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with high quality preschool early childhood education podcasts literacy on January 14, 2010 #

Our Book by Us!

Download this book and use it with your child to create a wonderful masterpiece! We’ve created this book to give every adult and child a fun way to spend time together, even if you only have five minutes a day.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with reading writing early literacy literacy on January 14, 2010 #

American Academy of Pediatrics: Literacy Toolkit, Sharing Books Tip Sheets

Conversations between parents, mothers and grandmothers, parents and child care providers, parents and children. They are each talking about the important matters discussed in the doctor's office including vaccines, sleep issues, speech development, and so many other topics that are essential to a child's development. Why add another topic to the list of things we talk about with parents? Why talk about books and pre-literacy development? Why provide books or urge visits to the local library? There are many reasons ...

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with literacy reading early literacy on January 14, 2010 #

National Wildlife Federation's, "Be Out There!" Green Hour Activities

A daily dose of the outdoors will improve your family's overall well-being and inspire a life-long appreciation of wildlife and nature. Check out the activities and events listed below and make time for a Green Hour today!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with outdoor activity physical activity physical development recess play on January 14, 2010 #

Reading Rockets Classroom Templates

Parents love to know what's going on in their child's classroom. A weekly newsletter is a great way to keep the communication going. We've created a ready-to-use, editable newsletter template complete with extra graphics and more than 50 reading tips.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with early childhood special education early childhood education education newsletter on January 14, 2010 #

Mother Goose Programs Free Activity Guide

Reading to even the youngest child will: * Introduce sounds, words and language * Provide a chance for closeness and cuddling * Instill a love of books and language * Stimulate her imagination * Bridge the gap between adults and children * Open up new worlds * Make him want to learn to read because it helps him love books We offer programs, booklists, free activities and other resources for parents, caregivers, teachers and librarians.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with books literacy math science activities development early childhood education on January 14, 2010 #

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