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Boston Parent

Find everything from fun activity suggestions for your student to parenting advice in this resource. Copies of their FREE magazine are available online or at your local library.

Top Picks from the Site

1. Tips to Support Children Who Have Anxiety: When to Seek Help

2. Go Outside and Play!

3. Back to School: Is your child getting enough sleep?

10 Great Kids Comics for Early Readers

Comics are a great place to look to when you want to help your child engage with books. It can be hard to find appropriate comic book reading material, but this article provides you with 10 fabulous options for grades K-2.

Top Picks from the Article

1. Toon Books: A quality option offering  comics for early readers.

2. Owly: Most of the pictures do the talking. Wonderful themes about friendship, loyalty and nature.

3. Tiny Titans: Stories with age appropriate versions of many familiar DC Comics characters (more about being in school than fighting criminals)

4.  Nursery Rhyme Comics/ Fairy Tale Comics

A showing of the Screenagers film a couple of years ago at the high school introduced me to their website which offers informative "Tech Talk Tuesday" newsletters. 

Tech Talk Tuesday Sample Articles

E-Readers or Books, What is Best?

Unplugging-Restful or Stressful?

People Share Rules for Screens and Sleep

Confessions of a Distracted Parent

Highlights offers quality resources for all members of your family. Consider the numerous magazine subscriptions or YouTube channel for your child. Explore resources for yourself on their social media or YouTube channel. 

PBS offers quality resources for all members of your family. Consider the parent resources for yourself and the educational activities for your child.  Follow them on Facebook, Pinterest  and Twitter. 

Learning to read is a fundamental part of first grade learning. Reading Rockets offers information about the learning to read process and provides articles about many frequently asked questions and suggestions to help guide you as you read with your child.

"Reading aloud is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do with children. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about."