Title 1 Parent Resources
We are pleased to let you know that we have many new resources available to borrow related to reading. These resources will be on display during conference time. Information on how to borrow these items will go home soon!
Books
The Parent Coach
This is a book designed to help parents cope with the typical problems that children encounter in their everyday lives. The book coaches parents to nurture their child's social and emotional skills and to teach them to use their “thinking side” and not their “reacting side.”
How to Read: Parents Guide in English and Spanish
This book highlights a simple program that can help parents begin to read with their child ten minutes daily, five days a week. Even though the realities of everyday life can make this challenging, this book will present a way for busy parents to make it happen. J
Literacy Kit
The Partners Video and Bookmark
This 25-minute video shows parents strategies for helping children learn to read. Live-action demonstrations show adults employing the Six Strategies for Success and using prompting questions with young readers. It also shows parents how to use the Partners Bookmark to support their teaching efforts.
The Partners Handbook
The Partners Handbook is a print companion to The Partners Video. It parallels the lessons presented in the video and shows how to put the Six Keys to Success into action. It also includes lists of suggested books that exercise the basic reading skills promoted by each of the Six Keys.
When a Child Reads
When a Child Reads… answers the questions all parents have about helping their child learn to read. This easy-to-read booklet includes practical suggestions for supporting children's reading, finding the right books, and connecting the reading and writing processes.
When a Child Writes
Through children's writing samples, this booklet describes and demonstrates the developmental writing stages. The reader will learn many valuable tips and strategies to support young writers. It's the perfect companion to When a Child Reads...
The Partners Bookmark
The Partners Bookmark supports parents as they become at-home reading partners with their child. One side displays the Six Keys to Success, while the other provides examples of prompting questions for children's reading. The keys and prompting questions are demonstrated in the Partners Video, the main component of The Partners Literacy Kit and The Partners Literacy Kit for Parents.
Reading Activities
Ending Sounds Matching Boards, Rhyming Sounds Matching Boards, Beginning Sounds Matching Boards
An irresistible way to explore ending sounds, rhyming sounds or beginning sounds…and get your child super-involved! This pegboard comes with 12 activity cards, plus 10 elastic loops that your child will love to stretch. Just place a card onto the specially designed surface of the board…then kids stretch the loops over the pegs to connect matching sounds!
Help Yourself Phonemic Awareness Trays
The set features 4 different activity trays…plus all the hands-on materials kids need to complete 4 involving activities. Your child just grabs a tray, then works at their own pace to explore everything from sound matching and rhyming sounds to syllable counting!
Help Yourself Alphabet Trays
The set features 4 different activity trays…plus all the hands-on materials your child need to complete 4 involving activities. Your child just grabs a tray, then works at their own pace to practice upper- & lowercase letter formation, alphabet sequencing, letter matching and more!
Help Yourself Vocabulary Trays
The set features 4 different activity trays…plus all the hands-on materials kids need to complete 4 involving activities. Your child just grabs a tray, then works at their own pace to explore concepts like opposites, before & after, word classification and more!
Games
Boggle
When the timer starts- look out. Each player searches the assortment of letters for words of three letters or more. When a player finds a word, it is written down. Letters must be in proper sequence to spell a word. It is boggling because letters can join horizontally, vertically, diagonally, to the left, right, or up-and-down.
Blurt
If you want a fun game for game night, this is it! Players take turns reading clues aloud, competing to blurt out the correct answer first and move ahread on a game board. The first person to circle the board wins. It is easy to get tongue-tied with this vocabulary building game.
Pictionary Junior
Look out future artists. This is a fast-paced game in which players use visual skills and quick thinking to guess the word that is being sketched by a teammate, without using any verbal clues. Parents, this game encourages reading and comprehension of single words, creativity in drawing and thinking- not to mention teamwork. J
Charades for Kids
Charades is an interactive game for the entire family, especially your drama king or queen. Players may be acting out “stapling papers” or simply smiling. If you get another player to guess the charade correctly, you can move ahead on the game board. This game also features picture cards so that early readers can get in the fun.
Scrabble for Juniors
If you like a little mental challenge that reinforces your spelling skills then bring scrabble junior home to your table. It is a fun word and picture version of the famous crossword game. Young players match the picture word with letter tiles and older players for their own words on the reverse side of the game board.