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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guides From Reading Rockets

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Colorful bilingual guides (downloadable as PDFs) with tips for parents on how to encourage reading, work with schools, and find great reading resources for their children. The guides are short, with straightforward, common-sense activity...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Role of Teachers and Schools in Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is the role of teachers and schools in regards to communication with parents? Come and explore this informative article revealing how important open communication is for students.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Ways to Encourage Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site offers several simple ways to encourage learning in your child.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Working With Bilingual Parent Volunteers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Advice about how to start a group of bilingual parent volunteers at your school to work in mainstream classrooms and with first-year English language learners.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

For Students Pre-K - K
Easy and fun activities parents can do to nurture strong, confident readers. The one-page handout is available in multiple languages.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Engaging Parents in Literacy Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students whose parents are involved in the academic school experience tend to be good readers and are successful in school. Even for those who struggle and perhaps read below grade level, if their parents are involved in school, then...
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PBS

Pbs: Establishing Strong Family School Communication

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive site devoted to strengthening the ties between families and schools. Ideas for keeping channels of communication open and for helping teachers understand and appreciate your child. Sound advice with links to do's and...
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Other

National Education Assoc.: Parent, Family, Community Involvement in Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource explains NEA's position that significantly more emphasis must be placed on the important roles that parents, families, and communities can and must play in raising student performance and closing achievement gaps.
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Kidsource OnLine

Kidsource: How Can I Be Involved in My Child's Education?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
It's easy to say you want to become involved, but doing it is another story. Find some meaningful ways to become involved in your child's education and look through the resource organizations listed for some good contacts.
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Other

Aprendiendo Naturalmente (Learning Naturally)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An article in Spanish for parents on how to help their children in math, and it's importance. An excellent way to communicate with Spanish speaking parents, and get their support for your math class!
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Top Tips for Engaging Dads

For Teachers K - 1st
The U.K.'s National Literacy Trust offers ideas that schools and nonprofit organizations can implement to get fathers involved in their children's reading.
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Family Education

Family Education: 10 Tips for a Successful Parent Teacher Conference

For Students Pre-K - 1st
You have some issues to discuss with your child's teacher. How do you put your best foot forward so that you can accomplish your goals? The authors of this site have put together some ideas to help you make the most of every minute spent...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: How Parents Can Encourage Teens to Read

For Teachers 9th - 10th
You know that reading is important and you want to make sure that your teenager grows into adulthood with all the skills he or she needs to succeed. The following list offers suggestions for encouraging your teens to read.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Learning to Study: The Elementary Years

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teachers teach the subjects, but parents teach how to study. Many of us are not set up to do that! The author shares some good tips that just might help.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Parents: Best Bets for After School

For Students 9th - 10th
Some solid advice on extracurricular activities: why they matter, the benefits, the activities to choose from.
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US Department of Education

Us Dept. Of Education: Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Children's Education

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There are some proven steps that you can take to improve your child's education such as reading at home together and limiting the use of the TV. Find more advice from the US Dept. of Education.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: My Son's Disability, and My Own Inability to See It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a cautionary tale, not just for people who have no real idea of what a learning disability is and probably suspect the whole thing is an overindulgent scam, but also for any parent of a child struggling mightily through school.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Como Acercarse a Los Padres De Los Estudiantes Ell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Los estudiantes que estan aprendiendo ingles (ELL) se benefician cuando sus padres participan en su educacion igual que los otros estudiantes. Algunos padres hispanos pueden sentir aprension acerca de participar debido a su limitado...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Response to Intervention (Rti): A Primer for Parents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn what questions to ask about Response to Intervention (RTI), an approach to helping struggling learners that is gaining momentum in schools across the country. This article from the National Association of School Psychologists tells...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Four Steps to Finding an Excellent Tutor for Your Child

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Whether your child is lost in a haze of elementary grammar rules, sinking fast in a jumble of Newton's laws in middle school, or lost in the details of an AP biology class, you need help quickly, before your child falls way behind the...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Making Math Real

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Parents strive to open the doors for their children into the vast halls of learning. How to start! Family-friendly ways to incorporate math concepts at home are given here.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Have Journal Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Litera

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.

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