Parent & Teacher Resources Fun, educational websites for parents to use with their children: http://www.bookadventure.com/parents_place.aspx Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Within their “Parent’s Place,” parents can monitor their child’s reading progress, approve their prize choices, and help make positive recommendations of future books to read.
http://www.funbrain.com/parents/index.html Fun brain’s website has a variety of Math and Reading games and activities to reinforce learning. Parents can search for activities based on child’s grade level and/or interests.
http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Family-Fun.aspx The National Wildlife Federation has created an awesome website with hundreds of educational activities for kids and parents to do together! You can use their Activity Finder to search by child’s age, activity type (craft, recipe, song, outdoor fun) or topic.
www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/ Learn how children become readers and writers and how you can help them develop by talking, reading, and writing together every day. Great resource for ideas on things to do to encourage literacy!
http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents/ With a focus on “Teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle,” Reading Rockets offers classroom strategies, videos and podcasts, reading lists, and much more!
http://www.timeforkids.com/homework-helper Thanks to the people at TIME, you can create your own flashcards, check out their Grammar Wizard, and become a better and more confident writer with their Tips and Writer’s Toolbox.
Sitios Web Útiles (Useful sites in Spanish): http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/spanish/ “Aprenda cómo los niños se vuelven lectores y escritores y la manera cómo usted puede ayudar a su desarrollo hablándoles, leyendo y escribiendo juntos todos los días.”
www.colorincolorado.org Colorín Colorado es un sitio Web bilingüe que provee información, actividades y consejos sobre cómo ayudar a sus niños para que aprendan a leer y tengan éxito en la escuela.