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Weaving Wonderful Tales: Toddlers Becoming Story Tellers

It's exciting to find that a time-honored and beloved early childhood activity, the shared reading of storybooks, can with a bit of tweaking, become a more powerful promoter of early language development. When a child participates in shared reading time with adults, she can learn how to shift from simply listening to becoming an enthusiastic storyteller.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with early literacy literacy reading shared reading on January 12, 2011 #

Ready, Set, Read: Early literacy learning for preschoolers

It's exciting to know a favorite early childhood activity, the reading of storybooks, can with a bit of tweaking, become a more powerful promoter of early literacy skills. When a child participates in shared reading time with adults, she can learn how to shift from simply listening to becoming an enthusiastic storyteller.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with early literacy literacy reading on January 12, 2011 #

Literacy Activities Packet

This packet of reading activities is courtesy of 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 and Comprehension.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with literature early literacy Title 1 tips Order from KPIRC writing homework literacy family reading education teachers phonics parent involvement fluency fathers development on October 13, 2010 #

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PAT Update: PAT Curriculum and the Basics of Literacy

As a parent or caregiver, you help shape your child's feelings about reading and writing. Parents also help teach their children skills, which are needed for success in school. This information brief, in Spanish and English, provides information on the effectiveness of the PAT curriculum.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with PAT Update Parents as Teachers early literacy reading writing Order from KPIRC on August 19, 2010 #

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PAT Update: Parents as Teachers and Literacy, An Essential Connection

Parents As Teachers' unique contribution to literacy development is that it brings research-based information (grounded in both neuroscience and developmental research) to parents of very young children. This knowledge helps them understand how they can impact their childrens development and provide them rich, emerging literacy activities. PAT recognizes that literacy and learning to read are progressive skills so PAT begins prenatally, and teaches parents about the steps along the way. This information brief for professionals outlines the research behind the PAT program and it's link to literacy.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with early literacy literacy reading on August 19, 2010 #

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Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read (Preschool to Grade Three)

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.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with early literacy reading on August 19, 2010 #

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How to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader

As a child learns to read, your role is to help young readers experience joy and begin to view reading as a pleasurable experience. You can also help children become independent readers through praise and encouragement provided while reading. It is critical that children realize success while reading. This booklet will help children become better readers through offering guidance and giving you tips on how to encourage and support a child’s reading.

Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with reading literacy fluency tips on August 16, 2010 #

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Summer Fun With Reading-Espanol

Reading with or to a child over the summer will help keep a child's reading skills alive and prevent the loss of reading skills over the summer. This booklet provides many tips and ideas on how to do this. This book is also available in hard copy for $.75 each.

Filed under Espanol and tagged with reading on August 16, 2010 #

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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 #

Our Book by Us!

Download this book and use it with your child to create a wonderful masterpiece! This book was created 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 #

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