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- Reading - Tips for Helping Your Child Learn to Read
- Math - Tips for Teaching Your Child Math
- Discipline - Tips and Suggestions for Disciplining Your Child
- Family Life Resources
- School Work - Tips for Helping Your Child Perform Better in School
- Internet Safety - Tips and Resources for Keeping Your Child Safe on The Internet
- Summertime Learning - Fun and Educational Summertime Learning Activities
Reading - Tips for Helping Your Child Learn to Read
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.
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.
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
Helping your child learn to read – A parent's guide
Helping Children with Learning Disabilities to Succeed - Learning To Read/Reading To Learn
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.
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 )
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.
Tutor Training Activities from NWREL - Parents, consider yourselves tutors and look at some of the activities that the North West Regional Educational Laboratory suggests.
Math - Tips for Teaching Your Child Math
Cool Math for Parents has some suggestions for helping with homework and suggestions to help little ones get ready for Kindergarten.
Helping Children Learn at Home : Math and Science Tips for Young Children
Helping your child learn math – A parent's guide
Literacy and numeracy tip sheets for parents - suggestions from the Peel school district in Ontario, Canada
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.
Teaching multiplication tables
Discipline - Tips and Suggestions for Disciplining Your Child
Discipline Help -A discipline model for handling over one hundred different misbehaviors.
Family Fun magazine from Disney has tips on raising kids.
Positive Discipline - Yes, they want to sell you a book. But, they also offer some free suggestions that are worthwhile.
Single Parents and Win-Win Discipline
Bibliotherapy - the use of books to help children experiencing difficult times.
Family Education offers help for parents of children from age 0 to age 18.
Family Fun magazine from Disney
Helpful Tips for Parents and Caregivers of Elementary School Students
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.
Kidsource: articles and information that will help you raise your child from who is from 6 to 18 years old
Listen Up! - a site for the parents of hearing impaired children
Museums and Learning - A guide for family visits.
National Parent Information Network
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.
Parent's Toolbox - Smart ideas for moms and dads from Sesame Street Parents.
Suggestions for Parents: Helping Students Achieve Self-Determination
Helping your Child with Schoolwork
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.
Helping Students Learn Social Studies
Help Your Child Improve in Test-Taking
Helping Your Child With Homework - A US Department of Education Article
Helping Your Child With Homework - For Parents of Elementary and Junior High School-Aged Children
Parent's guide to helping kids with learning differences, and disabilities .
Parents Helping Students - suggestions regarding a variety of school subjects
Parents: Let's Talk - Links to articles about how parents can help their children learn.
SchwabLearning.org - A Web site Designed for Parents of Kids with Learning Difficulties.
CyberAngels - helping you to parent your online child (a short video is available)
Disney's Doug - Safety Tips from Doug's Adventures Online
GetNetWise - four areas of assistance; Online Safety Guide, Tools for Families, Web Sites for Kids, and Reporting Trouble
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.)
Kids' Rules for Online Safety - (from SafeKids.com) This would be good to print and post near your child's computer.
KidsCom - The Idea Seekers want you to Play Smart, Stay Safe and Have Fun while you're on the Internet. (Internet safety games included)
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
Internet Safety - from Kids Health for Parents
Internet Safety Awareness - Helping you to surf safely.
iSafe - a congressionally funded foundation whose mission is to educate and empower youth to make their Internet experiences safe and responsible
NetSmartz - several videos about cyber bullying and other internet safety issues
Parent's Guide to Internet Safety - from the FBI
SafeKids.Com where you'll find tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive!
Surf Swell Island - Adventures in Internet Safety from Disney
Web Surfing Safety - five Family Fun strategies for keeping kids safe online
Summer Time Learning Activities
Learning Activities for the Growth Season - Seven weeks of activities for parents of elementary school children designed for the summer months.
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.
Summer Home Learning Recipes - for parents and children. Suggestions for four age groupings; K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12
