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Literacy at a Glance Pages
Our Literacy at a Glance pages are designed to provide families with quick, easy-to-understand information about important topics that support your child’s learning journey. Each one-pager highlights key ideas, proven strategies, and helpful resources that you can use to better understand and support literacy development at home and in the community. We hope these tools empower you with knowledge and practical tips to make a positive impact on your child's growth as a reader, writer, and communicator.
Placer County Reads Initiative Overview
Placer County ELA Data
Placer County Reads Initiative Goals
An Overview of the Science of Reading
Building Early Literacy Foundations
PODER is an online video course created by Abriendo Puertas, UnboundEd, and CORE Learning to support Spanish-speaking parents of Multilingual Learners. It helps families understand best practices in early literacy, gives them strategies to support language and literacy at home, and empowers them to advocate for high-quality reading instruction in schools. The course includes three modules focused on literacy foundations, home support activities, and school advocacy, helping parents become confident partners in their children's education.
Through a collaboration among Abriendo Puertas, UnboundEd, and CORE Learning, an online video course was created specifically for Spanish-speaking parents of Multilingual Learners to enable them to support and advocate for high-quality, high-impact reading instruction in their children’s districts, schools, and classrooms.
El curso está dividido en tres módulos. El primer módulo está diseñado para fortalecer los conocimientos de los padres sobre las mejores prácticas en alfabetización temprana basadas en investigaciones para los estudiantes multilingües. El segundo módulo está diseñado para compartir estrategias que los padres pueden utilizar en casa. El tercer módulo está diseñado para apoyar la labor de abogacía de los padres en sus escuelas y distritos.
Reading Rockets: Reading 101 Modules
Reading 101: A Guide for Parents is a free, research-based resource designed to help parents support their children's reading and writing development. The guide explains key literacy components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It offers age-specific guidance for children from pre-kindergarten through second grade, practical activities and strategies to reinforce reading skills at home, advice on how to engage with teachers about reading instruction, and bilingual resources to support diverse families.
Reading 101: A Guide for Parents
Reading 101: A Guide for Parents
This comprehensive guide, developed in partnership with the National Education Association and Colorín Colorado, offers parents practical tools and insights to support their children's journey in learning to read and write. It delves into the essential components of reading, such as decoding, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension, explaining how these skills develop and how parents can nurture them at home. The guide also provides age-specific milestones and activities for children from pre-kindergarten through second grade, helping parents understand and support their child's literacy development at each stage. By emphasizing the importance of background knowledge and motivation, the resource empowers parents to create a literacy-rich environment that fosters a lifelong love of reading.
Reading 101: Your Pre-K Child
Reading 101: Your Pre-K Child
Discover the typical literacy milestones for your pre-kindergarten child, and how to support your child’s developing skills in reading and writing. Use the links to find activities, videos, and other resources to build skills in these key areas: understanding what print is, recognizing the sounds in speech, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Reading 101: Your Kindergartener
Reading 101: Your Kindergartener
Discover the typical literacy milestones for your kindergartener, and how to support your child’s developing skills in reading and writing. Use the links to find activities, videos, and other resources to build skills in these key areas: recognizing the sounds in speech, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Reading 101: Your First Grader
Reading 101: Your First Grader
Discover the typical literacy milestones for your first grader, and how to support your child’s developing skills in reading and writing. Use the links to find activities, videos, and other resources to build skills in these key areas: recognizing the sounds in speech, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Reading 101: Your Second Grader
Reading 101: Your Second Grader
Discover the typical literacy milestones for your second grader, and how to support your child’s developing skills in reading and writing. Use the links to find activities, videos, and other resources to build skills in these key areas: recognizing the sounds in speech, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
Reading Tips for Parents in Multiple Languages
Reading Tips for Parents in Multiple Languages is a valuable resource offering simple, one-page tip sheets to help parents support their children's literacy development from infancy through third grade. These tips are available in English and 12 other languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Diné (Navajo), and Russian. The materials provide practical, age-appropriate strategies that parents can use at home to foster a love of reading and strengthen language skills, making literacy support accessible and inclusive for families from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
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