Remote literacy learning is a collaboration among schools, families, and students.
This toolkit helps schools and families join efforts to support children’s literacy growth in remote or blended learning environments.
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.
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This toolkit helps teachers and families understand the difference between phonemic and phonological awareness and how to support a child's development of these important reading skills.
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This resource by the Kansas Department of Education provides a definition and overview of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in the state; describes how it helps support a child's literacy development, and how a parent can support your child's literacy development at home.
Topic: Comprehension, Interventions, Language Development
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This mini-poster provides parents with simple ways to incorporate literacy into neighborhood walk routines.
Topic: Language Development
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Reading instruction on understanding how letters and groups of letters link to sounds to form letter-sound relationships and spelling patterns.
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
