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Open a world of reading. Try Sora, the new reading app for students, by OverDrive.

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Family Guide to at-home learning

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Family Guide to At-Home Learning | CEEDAR

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This page provides an overview of family guides for at-home learning.

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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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Supporting your child's reading at-home: Grades K-2

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Introduction

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.

These Family Activities include easy-to-follow plans to help you support your child's foundational reading skills at home. Materials needed for each Family Activity, such as letter cards, are included. They begin with simpler activities and progress to more difficult ones. You may want to start with the first activity and move to the next when you notice that your child has a firm understanding of the content from that activity. We encourage you to select appropriate activities for your child, and feel free to set aside an activity that seems too difficult. The goal is to engage your child in activities that promote learning in a positive environment, not to induce frustration. The activities should be completed with the child, frequently, with patience, and positive feedback. Using the activities at home will be a fun way to spend family time together!

The Family Literacy Videos show families engaging their child in the Family Activities. The key points about the videos can help you know what to focus on for a specific activity.

The Family Activities were excerpted from a Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to Support Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills, which is free online: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/pdf/REL_2020016.pdf.
You can also access these videos free online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVHqsnePfULqzbnu1BZf50y7HFgGNZp6v.

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Introduction 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. These Family Activities include easy-to-follow plans to help you support your child's foundational reading skills at home.

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Bookshare | An Accessible Online Library for people with print disabilities

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Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

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Tar Heel Reader: A collection of free, beginning reader accessible books.

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Tar Heel Reader: A collection of free, beginning reader accessible books.

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Tar Heel Reader | Books for beginning readers of all ages

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Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Click here to learn more about alternative access methods.

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Storynory: E-books read to the reader by story tellers, mainly Natasha Gostwick.  Most of the stories are for young children, but they do offer myths and fables that might interest older students.

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Storynory: E-books read to the reader by story tellers, mainly Natasha Gostwick.  Most of the stories are for young children, but they do offer myths and fables that might interest older students.

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Undercover Robot Competition
Storynory Competition! Win a signed copy of Bertie's new book, Undercover Robot. "If there was a super-intelligent and life-like robot in your class at school, what do you think would be the tell-tale sign that he/she was not human?" Send us your answer in a couple of sentences to @storynory on Twitter/FB or [email protected] by August 7 2020. Get thinking!

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Undercover Robot Competition Storynory Competition! Win a signed copy of Bertie's new book, Undercover Robot. "If there was a super-intelligent and life-like robot in your class at school, what do you think would be the tell-tale sign that he/she was not human?"

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Project Gutenberg: A large collection of free e-books for all ages.

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Project Gutenberg: A large collection of free e-books for all ages.

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Florida Electronic Library: Over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other electronic resources provided to the citizens of Florida.

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Florida Electronic Library: Over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other electronic resources provided to the citizens of Florida.

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Understood for Learning and attention issues

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Understood - For Learning and Thinking Differences

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Understood.org is the resource that helps the 70 million people with learning and thinking differences anticipate the challenges, barriers, or opportunities in life and confidently reach their potential.

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Parents are often baffled by the problems presented by a child with learning disabilities. Often this "invisible disability" does not become obvious until a child reaches school age. Even then, difficulties may be subtle and hard to recognize.

Here you will find a wealth of information on understanding learning disabilities, negotiating the special education process, and helping your child and yourself.

If you are just learning that you or your child has a learning disability you may be confused and not know where to begin. It can be a daunting and complicated task. But don't despair. LDA is here to help you understand this new diagnosis and lead you or your child to the right support systems.
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Parents are often baffled by the problems presented by a child with learning disabilities. Often this "invisible disability" does not become obvious until a child reaches school age. Even then, difficulties may be subtle and hard to recognize. Here you will find a wealth of information on understanding learning disabilities, negotiating the special education process, and helping your child and yourself.

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Concept maps help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. Concept maps have been shown to support struggling readers by building off of students' prior knowledge and asking them to reflect on their understanding while reading. They are easy to construct and can be used across all content areas. Learn how to use this strategy in your classroom, and download a concept map graphic organizer.
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As your new students come into your classroom this fall, you may find they require extra support when reading expository texts. Their unique structure and style differs from other sorts of reading, so teaching students about signal words and organization can help.

If you're looking for ways tech can support your teaching in the 2019-2020 school year, this list is here to help. These top-rated apps and sites - ranging from instructional supports to organizational tools to social networks and beyond - help make one of the world's toughest jobs a bit easier. Once you've found a few great tools for back to school, head over to our Teaching Strategies page dedicated to helping you Set Up Your Digital Classroom for Success. (From Common Sense Education)

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NEW! In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about reading and how to support their children at home.
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Our PBS series explores reading and writing development in young children. The programs feature top reading experts, best practices in the classroom, support for struggling learners and how parents can help their kids succeed.
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