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Created by Paulina Mitropoulos, ELE Program and Assessment Specialist, Somerville Public Schools, available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French

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Broken Down by Specific K-3 Recommendations and Activities

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Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

Learning to read begins at home through everyday interactions with children, long before they attend school. Your continued support of literacy development as children enter elementary school and progress through the grades positively affects their reading ability. We are pleased to provide these Family Activities with easy-to-follow instructions to help your child practice foundational reading skills. We invite you to view the short Family Videos for tips on how to use the activities to help your child grow as a reader. Using the Family Activities at home can help your child develop language, link sounds to letters, blend letters and word parts to read and write words, and read for understanding.

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educational improvement; excellence in education; educational research; statistics; statistical data; statistical surveys; regional educational laboratory program; rel; rigorous studies; fast response projects; no child left behind

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REL Resource | Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

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Learning to read begins at home through everyday parent-child interactions, long before children attend school. Your continued support of literacy development throughout elementary school positively affects your child's reading ability.

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Also available in Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese (Simplified) to assist parents.

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Activities downloadable in 10 different languages

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Family and Caregiver Activities

"I just want to enjoy being with my granddaughter at home. How can I make learning fun for her?" -Grandfather of a young English learner in California

Learning together can be fun! These family and caregiver activities ( FCAs) are designed to provide simple, fun activities families and caregivers can use with young English learner children at home to leverage cultural and linguistic assets and knowledge to strengthen language development in either the home language or English. The resources are based on the What Works Clearinghouse practice guide " Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School." They are available in multiple languages.

Educator Resources

These resources support educators in helping families and caregivers make the most of the activities:

TOOL: Educators' Guide
Read the Educators' Guide to learn more about the activities as well as tips to help families and caregivers make the most out of the them.

VIDEO: Introductory Webinar
Watch a webinar that introduces the research behind the activities and provides suggestions to maximize learning and fun while families, caregivers, and children engage with the FCAs.

VIDEO COLLECTION: Activities in Action
See educators and families in action! View three videos that connect classroom instruction with use of the family and caregiver activities at home.

Activities

Download all activities in:

Questions about Informational Text

Ask and answer questions about an informational text.

Video Collection

Video 1: Building Oral and Written Language Skills

This video shows how to extend elementary classroom learning to the home with two Family and Caregiver Activity sheets: Asking and Answering Questions About an Informational Text and Writing Notebooks. The simple and fun activities, using content from classroom lessons, encourage young English learners to strengthen oral and written language skills while interacting with family members or caregivers.

Video 2: Supporting Young English Learners to Develop Academic Vocabulary Across Content Areas

This video demonstrates how educators, families, and caregivers partnered to prepare transitional kindergarten children for classroom lessons on sequential language across content areas and then extend this learning using two fun and engaging activity sheets: Asking and Answering Questions About a Story and Making a Meal Together.

Video 3: Applying Academic Vocabulary and Language to Multiple Contexts

This video focuses on how the Family and Caregiver Activity sheets Word Detective and Interviewing a Special Person can extend classroom lessons on academic vocabulary and language to help elementary-age English learner students use new words across multiple contexts by listening, speaking, writing, and drawing with their family members and caregivers.

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REL Resource | Supporting Young English Learners at Home

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Learning together can be fun! These family and caregiver activities (FCAs) are designed to provide simple, fun activities families and caregivers can use with young English learner children at home to leverage cultural and linguistic assets and knowledge...

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Learning Together at Home

Ideas and resources for supporting your child’s learning at home. English and Spanish

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When you are with your child, there is a lot that you can learn together! This section has all kinds of ideas for activities that you can do around the house, outside, in your neighborhood, and during vacations at different times of year. It also has ideas related to math and science that are easy to try at home (like sorting socks). Try some of these out, and if you find an activity that your child enjoys, look for different ways and places to try it, or share it with your child's teacher - you may find something that other kids and families will enjoy too!

Recommended Resource from Understood.org

For more great ideas, take a look at the bilingual resources on Learning Together at Home from Understood.org, a free website focused on learning and attention issues.

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When you are with your child, there is a lot that you can learn together! This section has all kinds of ideas for activities that you can do around the house, outside, in your neighborhood, and during vacations at different times of year.

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General Engagement Strategies for ELs at Home

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"What Do We Do if We Suspect That Our English Learners May Not Pass Standardized Assessments?" by Carol Salva

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"What Do We Do if We Suspect That Our English Learners May Not Pass Standardized Assessments?" by Carol Salva

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What Do We Do if We Suspect That Our English Learners May Not Pass Standardized Assessments? – Seidlitz Education (seidlitzblog.org)

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Beth Vaucher on EL Learners and Newcomer Activities

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Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher

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Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher

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Browse over 300 educational resources created by Inspiring Young Learners --- Beth Vaucher in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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Promoting Language and Literacy Skills Through Diverse Children's Literature

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Promoting Language and Literacy Skills Through Diverse Children's Literature

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Tips and suggestions for reading at home, as well as a large book list.

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Promoting language and literacy skills through diverse children's literature.

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Connecting Classroom Instruction to At Home Learning Activities

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Connecting Classroom Instruction to At Home Learning Activities

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This video shows how to extend elementary classroom learning to the home with two Family and Caregiver Activity sheets: Asking and Answering Questions About an Informational Text and Writing Notebooks. The simple and fun activities, using content from classroom lessons, encourage young English learners to strengthen oral and written language skills while interacting with family members or caregivers.
For the full article and resources that accompany this video, follow the link: REL Resource | Supporting Young English Learners at Home (ed.gov)

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Connecting Classroom Instruction to Learning at Home: Building Oral and Written Language Skills

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Learning about your Child's Reading Development

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Learning about your Child's Reading Development

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This toolkit helps parents and families understand the many different skills involved with teaching your child to learn to read and how to support your child's reading development at school and home.

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This toolkit helps parents and families understand the many different skills involved with teaching your child to learn to read and how to support your child's reading development at school and home.

You will learn:

How to tell if your child is getting high-quality reading instruction at school.

Questions to ask about the reading program in your child's school.

How to tell if your child has reading difficulties and how you can help.

This toolkit includes:

An Online Tutorial

Research Briefs & Infographics

Tools & Resources

A Facilitator's Guide

Supporting Materials

Download and print these infographics with ideas and questions to ask your child's school linked to the tutorial.

Facilitator's Guide

The purpose of the facilitator guide is to provide information and materials to effectively facilitate the Learning about Your Child's Reading Development at Home Tutorial in-person as a workshop series and enable participants to achieve the learning objectives.

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Learning About Your Child's Reading Development

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This toolkit helps parents and families understand the many different skills involved with teaching your child to learn to read and how to support your child's reading development at school and home.

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TEACHER’S GUIDES TO SUPPORTING FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN FOUNDATIONAL READING SKILLS

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TEACHER’S GUIDES TO SUPPORTING FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN FOUNDATIONAL READING SKILLS

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This suite of grade specific Teacher Guides is designed for certified teachers to use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children at home. The guides provide Family Activities, Family Videos, and book suggestions that can be used during family literacy nights and parent–teacher conferences. Click here to find the guides for Kindergarten (this one is linked in the Padlet), 1st Grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade.

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It's not an easy thing, learning to read and write. Discover what it takes to build important literacy skills, and how you can help your children grow as readers, writers, and thinkers!

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Reading Activities for Parents, Caregivers or Homeschooler

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Reading Activities for Parents and Caregivers | RIF.org

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Explore some of RIF's collections of best practices to encourage and motivate young readers. Hands-on activities, recommended book lists, strategies for parents and caregivers, alphabet coloring pages, and tips for reading aloud. These printable and downloadable resources support literacy development for a range of ages, abilities, and interests.

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Parents and Families Involved with Reading

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Parents and Families Involved with Reading

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Help your child read and write with practical ideas and strategies based on what works.

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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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Parents & Families | National Center on Improving Literacy

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Help your child learn to read and write with practical ideas and expert-approved strategies.

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Our themed reading adventure packs encourage hands-on fun, creativity, and learning centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books.

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Our themed reading adventure packs encourage hands-on fun, creativity, and learning centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books.