You can coach your child’s literacy learning at home. This means interacting with and guiding your child so he or she grows and succeeds.
Remote literacy learning is a collaboration among schools, families, and students.
Remote literacy learning includes a mixture of literacy learning experiences that are teacher-led, family-led, and student-led. It is a collaboration among schools, families, and students. Parents have an important role in helping develop your child’s literacy skills.
Help your child practice early literacy skills and understand ideas during everyday life.
Learning to read is difficult and does not happen naturally. It requires explicit and systematic instruction, which is especially important for struggling readers. Learning to read involves many different skills that must be taught to your child. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension will help your child learn to read.
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Idaho State Department of Education, helps parents and families use everyday time together as an opportunity for learning and building reading skills.
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This video clip introduces and illustrates many ways that adaptations can be used to promote the active participation of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in everyday literacy activities.
Topic: Language Development
Read a tip sheet that describes effective practices for having conversations with novel words.
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Learn how to help middle schoolers find meaning in what they read by figuring out unknown words, sticking with it, and showing evidence to support thinking. Notice how using context clues and making connections helps kids make sense of their books.
Topic: Comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
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The ability to identify and play with individual sounds in spoken words.
Public libraries are a great resource for your child’s literacy learning. They often provide free literacy events, in addition to children’s audio and print books. Library staff can help find resources to support your child’s learning at home.
Check your local library to see what it offers!
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The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2020 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org
