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School Calendar

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Reading Help

  1. The Compact for Reading Guide is a user-friendly handbook designed to walk your family-school compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading.
  2. Early Childhood Activity Calendar which is filled with helpful tips and special activities that promote reading and language skills for young children. Calendar sheets for June 1998 to May 1999.
  3. Family Times - Scott Foresman says that you are your child's first and best teacher. To help you, they provide activity sheets which you can print for use at home. Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade This is an Adobe Acrobat document
  4. Helping children learn about reading
  5. Helping your child learn to read – A parent's guide
  6. Helping Children with Learning Disabilities to Succeed - Learning To Read/Reading To Learn
  7. Is your child ready for Kindergarten? - The Get Ready to Read! Screening Tool has a sample question and 20 items. Each item is a set of four pictures and a question. Read the question aloud while your child looks at the pictures. Your child answers by pointing to or clicking on one of the 4 pictures and then clicking the Next button. When you've finished all 20 items, the screener will be scored automatically.
  8. Literacy and numeracy tip sheets for parents - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
  9. Parental Involvement - 100 School-Home Links activities for the kindergarten level. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. From the U.S. Department of Education. (for first grade parents) (for second grade parents) (for third grade parents)
  10. National Center for Family Literacy - Literacy is a legacy that can be passed from parent to child. But the barriers associated with low literacy - poverty, unemployment, low self-esteem, school failure - are also handed down from generation to generation. Children whose parents lack basic literacy skills often grow up to face similar challenges, perpetuating a cycle of disadvantage.
  11. Parents helping children learn to read (tips provided by Irvine Unified School District in California)
    1. Tips for Reading to Your Child
    2. Phrases that Encourage
    3. Questions that Encourage Conversation about Reading
    4. Concepts about Print
    5. Phonemic Awareness Activities For 4-5-6 Year Olds
    6. Phonemic Awareness Activities For 6-7 Year Olds
    7. Bibliography: K-3 Phonemic Awareness
    8. Ten Tips: Helping Your Child Read Effectively
    9. Breaking the Sound-It-Out Barrier
    10. Reading Tips for Parents, Primary Caregivers, and Educators
    11. Helping Children Develop Oral-Language Skills
  12. Simple Things You Can Do To Help All Children Read Well and Independently by the End of the Third Grade.
  13. Tutor Training Activities from NWREL - Parents, consider yourselves tutors and look at some of the activities that the North West Regional Educational Laboratory suggests.

Mathematics Help

  1. Cool Math for Parents has some suggestions for helping with homework and suggestions to help little ones get ready for Kindergarten.
  2. Helping Children Learn at Home: Math and Science Tips for Young Children
  3. Helping Your Child Learn Math
  4. Helping your child learn math – A parent's guide
  5. Literacy and numeracy tip sheets for parents - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
  6. Math and Young Children - a list of links classified by age level
  7. Math for the Fun of It
  8. Math, Science, And Girls: Can We Close The Gender Gap? From the National Network for Child Care's Connections Newsletter.
  9. Teaching children mathematics
  10. Teaching Math to Young Children - This is one of a series of web pages to help students understand math, and to help parents teach their children math.
  11. Teach multiplication tables

Discipline Suggestions

  1. Discipline Help -A discipline model for handling over one hundred different misbehaviors.
  2. Discipline for Young Children
  3. Family Fun magazine from Disney has tips on raising kids.
  4. Positive Discipline - Yes, they want to sell you a book. But, they also offer some free suggestions that are worthwhile.
  5. Single Parents and Win-Win Discipline
  6. Twenty Alternatives to Punishment from the Aware Parenting Institute

Family Life Resources

  1. Bibliotherapy - the use of books to help children experiencing difficult times.
  2. Family Education offers help for parents of children from age 0 to age 18.
  3. Family Fun magazine from Disney
  4. Helpful Tips for Parents and Caregivers of Elementary School Students
  5. Including Your Child - All children can succeed with the right supports. And when you are raising a child with special needs, finding the right supports and information can make all the difference in your child's learning and development.
  6. Kidsource: articles and information that will help you raise your child from who is from 6 to 18 years old
  7. Listen Up! - a site for the parents of hearing impaired children
  8. Museums and Learning - A guide for family visits.
  9. National Parent Information Network
  10. Parents Guide to the Internet is intended to help parents--regardless of their level of technological know-how--make use of the on-line world as an important educational tool. The guide gives parents an introduction to the Internet and suggests how parents can allow their children to tap into the wonders of the Internet while safeguarding them from its potential hazards.
  11. Parent's Toolbox - Smart ideas for moms and dads from Sesame Street Parents.
  12. Partnership in Parenting - articles to help you master parenting skills
  13. Suggestions for Parents: Helping Students Achieve Self-Determination This is an Adobe Acrobat document

Helping your Child with School work

  1. Helping Your Child Be Successful in School - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
  2. Helping your Child Series - Pamphlets from the US Department of Education - Office of Educational Research and Improvement. The Helping Your Child publication series aims to provide parents with the tools and information necessary to help their children succeed in school and life. These booklets feature practical lessons and activities to help their school aged and preschool children master reading, understand the value of homework and develop the skills necessary to achieve.
  3. Helping Students Learn Social Studies 
  4. Help Your Child Improve in Test-Taking
  5. Helping Your Child With Homework - A US Department of Education Article
  6. Helping Your Child With Homework - For Parents of Elementary and Junior High School-Aged Children
  7. Parent's guide to helping kids with learning differences, and disabilities.
  8. Parents Helping Students - suggestions regarding a variety of school subjects
  9. Parents: Let's Talk - Links to articles about how parents can help their children learn.

Internet Safety

  1. CyberAngels - helping you to supervise your child's experiences online
  2. Disney's Doug - Safety Tips from Doug's Adventures Online
  3. GetNetWise - four areas of assistance; Online Safety Guide, Tools for Families, Web Sites for Kids, and Reporting Trouble
  4. Kid Safety on the Internet - presented in a "slide-show" fashion, containing questions and answers to help kids protect themselves and handle emergencies (Parents may wish to help guide younger kids through the pages and discuss how these ideas apply to them around the home and at school.)
  5. Kids' Rules for Online Safety - (from SafeKids.com) This would be good to print and post near your child's computer.
  6. KidsCom - The Idea Seekers want you to Play Smart, Stay Safe and Have Fun while you're on the Internet. (Internet safety games included)
  7. InHope - representing Internet Hotlines all over the world, and supporting them in their aim to respond to reports of illegal content to make the Internet safer
  8. Internet Safety - from Kids Health for Parents
    1. Seguridad en la Internet - En español
  9. Internet Safety Awareness - Helping you to surf safely.
  10. iSafe - a congressionally funded foundation whose mission is to educate and empower youth to make their Internet experiences safe and responsible
  11. NetSmartz - several videos about cyber bullying and other internet safety issues  
  12. Parent's Guide to Internet Safety - from the FBI
  13. SafeKids.Com where you'll find tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive!
  14. Surf Swell Island - Adventures in Internet Safety from Disney
  15. Teen Safety on the Information Highway - a publication of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - also take a look at their Guidelines for Parents
  16. Web Surfing Safety - five Family Fun strategies for keeping kids safe online

Planning for your Child's Future

  1. Funding Your Education provides general information about the U.S. Department of Education's federal student financial aid programs. It is designed for high school students and others considering entering a post secondary school for the first time.
  2. Getting Ready for College Early guidebook will help you and your children understand the steps you need to take during the middle and junior high school years to get ready for college.
  3. How can parents help students make life and work decisions after high school?
  4. Preparing Your Child for College. It's never too early to think about college--about the benefits of a college education and about ways to put college within reach academically and financially. Throughout their school years, students make academic and other decisions that affect whether they will be eligible to enter college. You working with others can help your child make these decisions wisely.

Summer Time Learning Activities

  1. Learning Activities for the Growth Season - Seven weeks of activities for parents of elementary school children designed for the summer months.
  2. Summertime Fun time Activities from the US Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement Summer can be more than just vacation time for kids; it's also a great opportunity for parents to spend more time participating in learning activities with their children. Includes a calendar of daily activities for June, July, and August 1999.
  3. Summer Home Learning Recipes - for parents and children. Suggestions for four age groupings; K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12