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Chapter One - Enrolling Your Child in School Chapter Two - Attending School in the United States Chapter Three - Other Educational Programs and Services for Your Child Chapter Four - Finding Extracurricular Activities for Your Child Chapter Five - The Health and Safety of Your Child at School Chapter Six - Helping Your Child Be Successful in School
To request the tool kit in an alternate format as a reasonable accommodation, i.e. Braille, large print, CD Rom or audio, please contact Melissa Escalante by phone, 202-987-1745 or email at: Melissa.Escalante@ed.gov.

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Chapter One - Enrolling Your Child in School Chapter Two - Attending School in the United States Chapter Three - Other Educational Programs and Services for Your Child Chapter Four - Finding Extracurricular Activities for Your Child Chapter Five - The Health and Safety of Your Child at School Chapter Six - Helping Your Child Be Successful in School To request the tool kit in an alternate format as a reasonable accommodation, i.e.

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Important to build background knowledge over the summer.

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Important to build background knowledge over the summer.

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Tips for building background knowledge this summer. Have these conversations in any language!

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Tips for building background knowledge this summer. Have these conversations in any language!

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Contact me anytime with questions.

Call/Text 860-704-9688

Jmcgovern@portlandct.us

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Sesame Street: Fun Family Traditions | Tamir on the Street #2

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There are many different ways multilingual families can support their child's literacy, education, and social-emotional health. These resources, available in multiple languages, offer tips and ideas to try at home! For more resources, see our multilingual family literacy video series and our bilingual family literacy guide.

Acknowledgements

These tip sheets were made possible by our founding partner, the AFT, and the National Education Association.

Learn how you can to read by celebrating your language, culture, and special time together at home. Related resources include:

Video: Being Bilingual Is a Superpower!

Learn how families can support literacy at home, whether their children are babies, toddlers, preschoolers, or in elementary school. These reading tips are available in 13 languages.
"Thanks to your site, the literacy committee at our school in St. Paul, MN, will provide Parent Tip Sheets to families who speak Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, and Vietnamese at home. I've already given tip sheets to a Korean parent who is on the committee, and he just beamed. He said, 'I can read English, but I can just look at this and read it in 10 seconds!'"
If a child needs special education services, families may have many questions. This tip sheet offers basic information about special education services, families' rights to information in their home language, and an overview of different team members who may be involved in evaluations or instruction. These tips are available in 14 languages.
"Great resource for dually identified students! Share this with your multilingual families!"
This tip sheet offers ideas on how families can support their children's social-emotional health and find support resources in their home languages. This tip sheet is available in 16 languages.

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Tips for Parents: Parent-Teacher Conferences

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Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado is an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, and receives major funding from the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.

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The Wiggles - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Hokey Pokey 🕺 Party Songs 🥳 Dancing Songs 💃 Singalong Songs for Kids 🎙️ The Wiggles

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Move and Add, Add and Move | Jack Hartmann Addition Song

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Walking In The Jungle | Kids Song | Super Simple Songs

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CUENTO INFANTIL - ¡FUERA DE AQUÍ, HORRIBLE MONSTRUO VERDE!

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Do You Like Pickle Pudding? | Kids Food Song | Super Simple Songs

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12 Months of the Year | Exercise Song for Kids | Learn the Months | Jack Hartmann

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Martin and Rose Music and Learning Videos

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Days Of The Week  Addams Family (Parody) | Fun songs for Big Kids, Preschoolers and Toddlers

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Let's Count To 100 | ft. Finny the Shark | Super Simple Songs

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The Alphabet Is So Much Fun | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs

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Sign in using your Portland Student Google Account. Filter search by language.

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

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Library News and Notes

June 2, 2021

Dear Readers,

Great news! I was able to rebuild a simple version of the in-browser book reader which has enabled me to add back all of the ICDL books. The interface is not what it used to be, and we no longer have translations of books (only the original language the book was published in) - but we have all ~4,000 books back. The site is fast and reliable and should be able to stay around for some time to come. Happy reading!

May 5, 2021

Dear Readers,

Good news! Thanks to the UMD Computer Science Department, which has agreed to host a static version of ICDL, we have been able to resuscitate the library a bit, and have brought back 1/4 of the books in PDF form (that we have "download" rights for). We had to create a vastly simpler site without many, many of the features - no search, no translations, etc. But about 1,000 of the books are back, and we will work on bringing back more books and at least some aspects of the original site. Please note that we do not have the right to allow you to redistribute these books further, and they are provided to you only for personal use.

Thank you for so many of your heart-warming and gracious emails which encouraged us to find a way to keep the ICDL alive.

April 19, 2021

Dear Readers,

It has been over 20 years since we launched the International Children's Digital Library. In that time, we have served about 15 million people reading over 1,000,000 hours of children's books. We launched at a time when the concept of reading books online was a bit odd, and almost unheard of for children's books. After all these years, as far we know, we are still the largest collection of freely available complete children's books from around the world. And we did that without ever exposing children to commercial activities or risking their privacy.

But for many years, we have served this mission without any funds. And now all of the founders have moved on to other things in their lives. The servers are very old and dusty and there is no one to maintain them. Our licenses for the books are for use only by the ICDL so while we have considered a number of alternatives, none of them really made sense.

And so now it is time to say goodbye and read with the innumerable other resources in the world. The ICDL has been our labor of love, and we will always remember these books, the volunteers, libraries, publishers, and readers around the world with great fondness.

Keep reading!

- Founders Ben Bederson, Allison Druin, Ann Weeks, Anne Rose and Tim Browne (in memoriam)
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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library

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The Palace Project - The People's Palace

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Libraries are Palaces for the People Download The Palace Project App Today! Introducing The Palace App STEPS TO ACCESS THE BANNED BOOK CLUB Why Choose Palace?

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No login required. Explore ebooks in the many languages available.

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The Global Storybooks Portal is designed specifically for teachers, parents, and community members around the world. It makes 40 selected stories from the African Storybook available in major national, immigrant and refugee languages of individual countries, regions, and groups.

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Learn a language! Many language options.

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Learn a language! Many language options.

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Login with Portland Library card.

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Revolutionary language-learning programs for libraries, education, corporate, government, and independent learners.

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Login with Portland Library card. Many of the books/videos have Spanish options.

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World Book - options in Spanish and French

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World Book - options in Spanish and French

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No login required. Options to read/listen to stories in English or Spanish.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Log in with your Portland Library card

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hoopla digital: audiobooks, ebooks, movies, tv and comics.

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Borrow and enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music everywhere you have a screen-your computer, your phone, your car, even your TV. All you need is a library card. hoopla syncs across all your devices, so you can stream titles immediately or whenever you're in the mood.