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Parents as Partners: The Compact for
Reading
This is a
wonderful resource site for teachers and parents. Addressing reading
skills in early childhood from kindergarten through third grade, teachers
select from a list of skills and display a worksheet describing an activity
that parents or a tutor can do with a child at home. The worksheet/home
activity can be printed and reproduced.
The Compact for Reading is a free guide
on how to develop a compact, or written agreement, among families, teachers,
principals, and students. The compact describes how all partners can help
improve the reading skills of children from kindergarten through third grade,
including those with disabilities and with limited English proficiency.
The Compact Guide
comes with a School-Home Links Kit to help implement local compacts.
Developed by teachers for the U.S. Department of Education, the kit provides
100 reading activities for each grade from kindergarten through third. Three
to four times a week, a teacher can provide these easy-to-use activities to
families to
expand
student learning at home and encourage family involvement in reading
activities.
Helping your Child Become a Reader
Just
added to this website, offers dozens of activities families may use to help
young children (birth to six years). Learn the alphabet, play with rhymes,
"read" picture books, act out poems, predict *what happens next* in
stories, create a bookcase, enjoy family stories, write notes and stories,
and more. The 55 page booklet also provides tips for taking charge of
TV, visiting the library, summer reading, and learning with computers.
A dozen other booklets in the Helping Your Child series are available at this
Web site.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Reader/index.html
Complete
texts from "Chatting with Children" and "A Reading
Checklist".
www.kinderart.com
In
addition to having lots of art activities for preschool and kindergarten
children, the site makes an effort to tie the activities to educational
objectives. There are related activities in architecture, literacy,
drama, and cooking.
funschool.com
Pick a
grade level and find lots of educational, interactive games. It has
about 42 games for kindergarten.
www.alphabet-soup.net/alphabite.html
Helps
with learning the alphabet.
www.sandiegozoo.org
This is
the San Diego Zoo site and is a favorite with kids. The album is neat and
they love the videos.
tlc.ai.org/techiidx.htm
ACCESS
INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center (AITLC) provides links to general
resources and information on growth and development, kindergarten, teacher
lesson plans, and brain facts. Also available are ideas of the day and
week, activities for young children, games, songs, recipes, and crafts.
Teaching
Strategies.com
Information
to help parents learn about their child's education.
Animabets
Click any
letter of the alphabet to meet an animal whose species name begins with the
letter, and whose nickname
and
occupation do too. The duck is Dudley the daredevil and the skunk is Sonja
the schoolteacher. Students, click
on three
letters and make up a story about the three animals you find.
Kids
Farm
A century
ago, tens of thousands of kids grew up on U.S. farms. Now modern children
can get acquainted with ten farm animals in these colorful pages. The ducks
you’ll meet have a real Mother Goose and the sheep have three real little
lost lambs!
Grandpa Tucker’s Rhymes & Tales
Call the
kids together to share the “love of language” with Grandpa Tucker! Who
wouldn’t love words like these:
“I’m a peanut butter nutter,
Proud old
peanut butter strutter.
Heart’s a
flutter, makes me stutter,
Puh, puh,
puh, peanut butter.”
Matching Capital Letters
The name
says it all! Young students can practice their ABCs by learning to match
capital and lowercase letters. This tutorial displays one capital
letter at a time and a selection of lowercase letter to choose from. The site
generates new letters with each correct match.
Farm Shapes
Practice seeing shapes by clicking through these colorful pictures of scenes
from the farm. Count something different in each picture. The doghouse has
rectangles to find, the scarecrow has circles, and the barns and house have
other shapes to count. Provides excellent practice with shapes for
young children and attractive art to look
at for drawing ideas.
Children's Books
This web site is from Miami University in Ohio. Abstracts on over 4,000
children's books that can be searched by title, author, subject area, etc.
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