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Helping With Homework
As a parent or caregiver, you play an important role in your child's academic achievement. By taking steps to get involved in your child's education, you can bridge the gap between home and school to ensure your child's success in learning and in life.
Below you'll find both practical guidance and valuable information about how you can help your children with homework.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/homework.mspx
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Encouraging Young Writers
Long before they go to school, before they even know the alphabet, children begin to write. In fact, for most children, literacy begins at home . . . with a crayon.
The scribbles of very young children have meaning to them, and scribbling actually helps them to develop the language skills that lead to reading. Young children who are encouraged to draw and scribble stories will learn to write more easily, effectively, and confidently once they head off to school.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/encouragingyoungwriters.mspx
Parents
10 At Home Vacation Ideas
Facing a summer without vacation plans? Here are ten ideas to help you and your family get away from it all this summer, with the help of some good books of course.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=71
10 Signs of a Great Early Childhood Classroom
If your child is between the ages of 3 and 6 and attends a child care center, preschool, or kindergarten program, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) suggests you look for these 10 signs to make sure your child is in a good classroom.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/10signs.mspx
Children Who Can Read But Don't...
Studies show what common sense tells us: the more kids read, the better they read and the more pleasure they get out of reading.
Unfortunately, the reverse holds true: children who read very little usually have poor reading skills. Reading is a struggle for them, and they avoid it whenever possible.
Is there anything that you can do to encourage your children to read? First, it's helpful to know your child's reasons for not liking or wanting to read. These reasons can help you decide what will work best in motivating your child to discover or rediscover how much fun reading can be.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/ChidrenWhoDontRead.mspx
Communities Matter
A bumper sticker states, "If you can read this, thank a teacher." But the latest research indicates the situation is more complex.
Who plays the critical roles in preparing a successful reader?
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/communites_matter.mspx
Getting the Most Out of Parent Teacher Conferences
As a parent or caregiver, you play an important role in your child's academic achievement. By taking steps to get involved in your child's education, you can bridge the gap between home and school to ensure your child's success in learning and in life. The research-based tips in this article provide both practical guidance.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=59
How to Nurture a Growing Reader
Reading doesn't just happen. It is a skill that must be nurtured from a child's earliest years. Once children know how to read, they still need gentle coaxing and support to reach their full potential as readers.
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Keep Kids Reading This Summer -- Take Them to the Library!
School's out! Time to take a break from the daily academic routine. For many children, however, this means taking a break from reading and running the risk of losing important reading skills. So how can parents keep kids reading and learning all summer long? Take them to the library!
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Monitoring School Work
As a parent or caregiver, you play an important role in your child's academic achievement. By taking steps to get involved in your child's education, you can bridge the gap between home and school to ensure your child's success in learning and in life.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/monitoringSchoolWork.mspx
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
NCPIE advocates for parents' involvement in their children's education and encourages relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people
http://www.ncpie.org/
PBS Parents
Parent Guides, Issues and Advice, Fun and Games
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Preparing Your Child For School
As a parent or caregiver, you play an important role in your child's academic achievement. By taking steps to get involved in your child's education, you can bridge the gap between home and school to ensure your child's success in learning and in life.
These research-based tips provide both practical guidance and valuable information about preparing your child for school.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/preparingkidsforschool.mspx
RIF's School Connection
Children succeed best in school when teachers, parents, and children work together.
Developing a parent-teacher partnership with open communication is essential to a child's learning — and both parents and teachers are responsible for making this happen.
http://www.rif.org/parents/school/default.mspx
RIF's School Connection
Children succeed best in school when teachers, parents, and children work together.
Developing a parent-teacher partnership with open communication is essential to a child's learning — and both parents and teachers are responsible for making this happen.
http://www.rif.org/parents/school/default.mspx
RIF's Ter-RIF-ic Summer Reading Tips for Families
Experts agree: Children who read during the summer gain reading skills, while those who do not often experience learning losses. Kids across the nation are sure to find reading enticing this summer with these tips.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=14
Stress-Busting Holiday Reading Tips for Families
While the holidays can be stressful and frantic for many moms and dads, spending time reading together is a great reason to turn off the television, cuddle up, and relax.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=62
Tips for Back to School Reading and Beyond
Research shows that parental involvement in developing their children's love of literature is critical to raising lifelong readers. As family schedules are reorganized to begin the school year, now is a great time for kids and parents to be sure they incorporate reading into their daily routines.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=13
Tips for Back To School Reading and Beyond
Research shows that parental involvement in developing their children's love of literature is critical to raising lifelong readers. As family schedules are reorganized to begin the school year, now is a great time for kids and parents to be sure they incorporate reading into their daily routines.
Below are some fun and practical ways to make reading a normal and natural part of family life and encourage kids of varying ages to get reading-ready as they head back to the classroom and prepare to dive into books all year long.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=13
Tips for Getting More Involved in My Child's School
As a parent or caregiver, you play an important role in your child's academic achievement. By taking steps to get involved in your child's education, you can bridge the gap between home and school to ensure your child's success in learning and in life.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/tip.mspx?View=60
Working With Teachers and Schools
Many teachers say that they don't often receive information from parents about problems at home. Many parents say that they don't know what the school expects from their children or from them. Sharing information is essential and both teachers and parents are responsible for making it happen.
The following questions and answers can help you to get the most out of talking to your child's teacher or with other school staff members.
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/Teachers_Schools.mspx
Professional Resources
Care to Read
Care to Read is RIF's early literacy program that supports children's emergent literacy skills through training and resources for childcare staff in center- and home-based childcare programs. Six workshops cover important topics in early literacy development and use children's literature to actively engage childcare staff and illustrate literacy development concepts.
Care to Read training is typically done through a "train the trainer" model that prepares participants to return to their programs and deliver the six workshops to their colleagues.
http://www.rif.org/educators/caretoread/default.mspx
Gateways to Early Literacy
Gateways to Early Literacy, a production of RIFNet, consists of four half-hour videos that explore the critical ways family childcare providers can enrich and support children's early language and literacy development.
http://www.rif.org/educators/gateways/default.mspx
Web Resources
Are you searching for online resources to help you further your research on literacy topics? We've compiled some great links for you here.
http://www.rif.org/educators/webresources/default.mspx
Reading Activities for Kids
Reading Resources-
A Child's Bookshelf: Inside Children's Literature Video
A Child’s Bookshelf: Inside Children’s Literature is a two-part series hosted by Ann Curry of The Today Show. It features interviews with seven of the country’s most celebrated children’s book authors and illustrators including renowned poet, Jack Prelutsky and actor and author, John Lithgow.
http://www.rif.org/educators/childrenslit/default.mspx
How To Create A Literate Home
What exactly is a "literate home?" It is an environment that encourages children to learn to read and write and become lifelong readers and writers. Transforming your home into a literate home is simple and inexpensive. You need to consider what kinds of materials to have on hand and how to arrange materials so your child will use them. More importantly, you need to interact with your child in ways that foster literacy development.
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/literatehome/main.html
Leading to Reading
This fun and interactive site offers stories, nursery rhymes, and other activities for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It also contains information to help parents and childcare providers develop the language skills of young children.
http://www.rif.org/leadingtoreading/
Motivational Activities
Keep students excited about reading by incorporating motivational activities into your curriculum. Click on the links below to find hundreds of great activities to keep your students reading.
http://www.rif.org/educators/activities/default.mspx
RIF Advice and Tips
This new section of our site offers practical tips for making reading fun for kids and expert advice on monthly reading topics. Click on the links below to learn more
http://www.rif.org/educators/advicetips/default.mspx
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