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Growing Readers
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Children's books
A Fresh Look at Your Home Library
Book Swap for Kids
Creating a Home Library
Finding and Sharing Great Kids' Books
Finding the Right Book for Your Child
Graphic Novels for Young Kids
Listen and Learn with Audiobooks
Rediscover Your Public Library
The Importance of Reading Widely
Early literacy development
Beginning Readers: Look! I Can Read This!
Choosing a Preschool
Developing Writing and Spelling at Home (Pre-K)
Does My Preschooler Have Delayed Development?
Emergent Readers: Look! That’s My Letter!
Good Night, Sleep Tight: Preschoolers and Sleep
Grocery Store Literacy for Preschoolers
Healthy Hearing
Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
Learning That’s Hands-On Holiday Fun (Pre-K)
Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do! (Pre-K)
Social Skills in Preschool
Start the New Year Off Right: Resolve to Raise a Reader!
Supporting Very Young Writers
The Role of Fathers in Their Child's Literacy Development
The Role of Fathers in Their Child's Literacy Development (Pre-K)
Tips for Teaching Your Child About Phonemes
Engaging with your child's school
Back-to-School, for Parents!
Easing Back Into School
Easing Into Preschool
Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Lessons: What Does It Mean for Parents?
Homework Tips for Parents
How Parents Can Support the Common Core Reading Standards
How Parents Can Support the Common Core Writing Standards
How to Read a Report Card
Listen and Look at Back-to-School Night
New Year's Resolution: Help Your Kids Do Great in School
No More Morning Madness!
Preparing 21st Century Learners
Preparing Your Child for Testing
The Parent-Teacher Conference
The Parent-Teacher Conference (Pre-K)
When to Call Your Child's Teacher
Kids with learning disabilities
5 Things Your Grade-Schooler With Dyslexia Can Say to Self-Advocate
6 Multisensory Techniques for Teaching Handwriting
8 Tips for Talking to Your Child’s Teacher About Dyslexia
Common Signs of Dyslexia
Graphic Organizers to Help Kids With Writing
Handwriting: What's Normal, What's Not
Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision
Recognizing Reading Problems
Successful Transition to Kindergarten for Learners Who May Be at Risk for Learning Disabilities
When Writing Is Hard
Literacy activities for the family
7 Great Ways to Encourage Your Child's Writing
Building Reading Stamina
Building Your Child’s Vocabulary
Children and Digital Media: Rethinking Parent Roles
Creating Holiday Learning Traditions
Developing Writing and Spelling at Home
Environmental Print
Five Literacy-Based Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Your Child
Fluency Matters
Got a Newspaper? You’ve Got Learning!
Grocery Store Literacy
Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do!
Mission Critical: Reading Together to Build Critical Thinking Skills
Nursery Rhymes: Not Just for Babies!
Playing with Word Sounds: Stretch and Shorten
Playing with Words: Riddles
Putting Your Family Calendar to Work
Riding and Reading
Talking Counts!
The Night Before the Museum
Use Words to Teach Words
Writing and Spelling Ideas to Use with Kids
Reading aloud
Getting the Most Out of Nonfiction Reading Time
How to Read an E-Book with Your Child
How to Read With a Wiggly Baby (or Toddler!)
Picture This! Using Mental Imagery While Reading
Reading for Meaning with Your Child
Sharing Wordless Picture Books
Simple Yet Powerful Things to Do While Reading Aloud
Think Alouds to Build Comprehension
Use a PEER When You Read Aloud
Science and math activities
Beat the Heat with Your Weather Page
Cause and Effect
Creating Bar Graphs
Developing Research and Information Literacy
How to Read Nonfiction Text
IF kids code, THEN...what?
Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
Making Predictions
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: Math and Literacy for Preschoolers
Outdoor Explorations
Patterns and Categorizing
Recording Observations: Capturing and Sharing Images
Recording Observations: Journals and Field Notes
Science vs. Science Fiction
Share What You Discover! Publishing Your Work
STEM Tools at Home
Steps in the Scientific Process
Teaching Sequence
The Vocabulary of Science
Think Like an Inventor
Summer reading
Summer Learning, Side-by-Side
Summer Literacy Challenge!
Take a Break, but Bring a Book!
Use Summer Fun to Build Background Knowledge
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