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(New Addition)
 One
More Story
One More Story is an online library of the best of
children's classic and contemporary literature. Through a
simple point and click process, children can choose a book,
see the illustrations and have the book read to them whenever
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Helping
Your Preschool Child (Spanish:
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante la edad preescolar con
actividades para los niños desde el nacimiento hasta
los 5 años)
Spanish language version of Helping Your Preschool Child,
which highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their
children to develop the skills necessary for success in school
and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
The booklet has information applicable to infants through
children age five. |
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Recursos
en español (Education Resources for Spanish Speakers)
La misión del Departamento de Educación de los
Estados Unidos es garantizar igualdad de acceso a la educación
y promover la excelencia en la educación por todo el
país. |
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Starting Out Right
A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
This book, compiled by the National Research Council, offers
parents, teachers and child care providers specific recommendations
on how to help children from birth through grade three become
successful readers. Parent/child activities, titles of recommended
children's books, checklists of specific grade-level accomplishments,
Internet resources and much more are included in this clearly
illustrated, hands-on guide. Softcover, 182 pp. Learn
more. |
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Helping Your Child Become a Reader
from the US Department of Education
Taking the time to talk, listen, sing, and read to
your children every day will help them build their language
skills. Many engaging learning activities are included for
families with children from infancy through age six—the
most important years for learning the skills they will need
to become readers. This booklet also shows how to prepare
your child for school and lists resources for finding additional
reading help. 2000, 50 pp. Learn
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Helping
Your Child Learn Math
from the US Department of Education
Families can help their children master math skills by using
the many fun activities presented in this booklet. Arranged
by levels of difficulty, these activities are enjoyable and
invitingand use items that can be found in the home. Making
learning experiences out of everyday routines such as grocery
shopping and cooking, can reinforce the beginning concepts
in algebra, geometry, measurement, problem solving, and statistics.
2000, 44 pp. Access this booklet in English
or Spanish. |
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Simple Things You Can Do to Help All Children Read
Well and Independently by the End of Third Grade
from the U.S. Department of Education
You can help meet the America Reads Challenge, whether you
are a parent, librarian, concerned citizen, employer, or a
member of the news media. This booklet details the simple
ways in which you or your organization can help children develop
reading and other language skills. 1998, 28 pp. Learn
More. (PDF)
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A Child Becomes a Reader (kindergarten
through age 3)
from the Partnership for Reading
Proven ideas from research for parents. Includes information
about what children should know and be able to do by the end
of each grade level. Learn
More. (PDF)
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Put Reading First: The Research Building
Blocks for Teaching Children to Read (kindergarten through
age 3)
from the Partnership for Reading
Contents include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary
and text comprehension instruction. Parent
Guide. (PDF) Research
Guide. (PDF)
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Story Time: Mothers' Reading Practices in Japan
and the US
Published by the Fine Network at Harvard Family Research Project
An insightful and interesting research project, this digest
illustrates the differences and similarities in mothers’
reading practices with three and five year olds in Japan and
the United States. Learn
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Engaging All Families: Creating a Positive School
Culture by Putting Research Into Practice
from Scarecrow Education
Engaging All Families is a step-by-step manual for practitioners
to create family engagement programs at all levels. It provides
the resources necessary to assess the current level of family
engagement and the ideas, strategies, suggestions, programs,
practices, policies and procedures to implement a wide variety
of customized family engagement programs. Learn
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