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Making Life Easier: Bedtime and Naptime

any families find bedtime and naptime to be a challenge for them and their children.When a young child is sleeping, her body is busy developing new brain cells needed for her physical, mental and emotional development. Parents also need to feel rested in order to be nurturing and responsive to their growing and active young children. Here are a few proven tips for making bedtimes and naptimes easier for parents and children.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with sleep naptime mental health social emotional skills on November 30, 2010 #

How To Help Your Child Become a Better Reader - Espanol

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. This is the Spanish version.

Filed under Parents Schools Espanol and tagged with family engagement family literacy Title 1 Order from KPIRC tips parent involvement phonics testing fluency on November 03, 2010 #

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Wonderopolis

Wonderopolis.™ It’s a place where parents seek and nurture a brighter world for their children through the power of discovery, creativity, learning and imagination. Wonderopolis™ is brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL). You see your children not only for who they are but for all they can become, yet you may need a little help directing that passion and igniting that wonder. We can help you get there — together. You don’t have to travel far. Wonderopolis is a special place found in a curious question, an everyday adventure and right in your own home. Just let wonderment be your guide. Our Wonders of the Day will help you find learning moments in everyday life, ones that fit in with dinner preparations or carpool responsibilities or a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus. Welcome to Wonderopolis.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with literacy early literacy on November 02, 2010 #

Safe Sleep Kansas

Remember the ABC’s of Safe Sleep A baby should always sleep alone, on the back and in a crib. Place your baby alone in a safety-approved crib with a firm mattress covered with only a fitted sheet. A car seat is an appropriate place for baby to sleep while traveling in a car, but baby should always sleep in a safety-approved crib for naps or night while at home.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with sleep SIDS on October 18, 2010 #

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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Great Families Mean Great Schools: PIRC Outcome Data, 2008-2009

From the National PIRC Information Resource Center. The Parental Information Resource Center (PIRC) program is a nationwide effort designed to build successful family involvement in education. The program supports families’ engagement in improving the education of their children and builds effective home-school partnerships. Funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, the program focuses on projects serving families of English Language Learners, low-income, and racially and culturally diverse children from cradle to career. There are 62 PIRCs, each chosen through a competitive process, resulting in at least one in every state, the District of Columbia and most U.S. territories.*

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with PIRC data book on September 27, 2010 #

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Parental Involvement Fact Sheet (Family Engagement)

What is Parental Involvement per the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)? What are Title I districts and schools required to do regarding parental involvement? What must be included in a Parental Involvement Policy? These and other questions about the responsibilities of schools are answered in this two-page fact sheet from Kansas State Department of Education.

Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with Title 1 Parent Involvement Plan on September 27, 2010 #

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MTSS: Helping Your Child Grow, Learn, and Succeed

It is the job of Kansas educators to help every child in our state—your child—meet high standards for success. MTSS, the Multi-Tier System of Supports, is a framework to help schools and teachers give every Kansas child the right type of support to learn, grow and succeed. How is this new and different? The MTSS framework helps schools create ways to: possible. Parents play an important part in their children’s learning. Read this booklet to learn how MTSS helps your child and how you can help your child as well.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with MTSS multi-tier system of support early literacy literacy on September 27, 2010 #

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2010 Proclamation of Family Engagement Month

Governor Mark Parkinson has declared October, 2010 to be Family Engagement Month. This official proclamation will download as a pdf file.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with family engagement governor's proclamation proclamation on September 24, 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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