Parent Resources

Did you know?

Reading to your child early and often has so many great benefits! It can:

increase your child's vocabulary
increase his/her attention span
increase his/her overall language
increase background knowledge
AND you get to spend valuable time together having fun!

The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk has many great resources for parents and educators.

Reading Rockets has a great parent resource page that includes activities, articles and tips!

The University of Florida is an amazing resource for all things reading related! Here is a link to their Parent Resource Hub.

Colorin Colorado is a great resource for reading activities and more - especially for bilingual parents and students! You can access the resources here in many different languages (just scroll to the bottom of the page to find your language!)

The Florida Center for Reading Research is a great resource for families as well. Tap the link above to explore their site!

The National Center on Improving Literacy has a lot of great research and info for families.

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*For parents of students who receive Intervention using UFLI: Here is a video (click the button) and a visual graphic that explain how you can use the Home Practice pages to help your child extend his or her learning at home.

UFLI Home Practice Tutorial

Tools to Help Your Child Read

Decoding

Students can use this bookmark from IMSE to remind them of strategies they can use when they get stuck on a word.

This Consonant Chart on the Tools4Reading Sound Wall models mouth placement for consonant sounds.

This Vowel Valley Chart on the Tools4Reading Sound wall models mouth placement for vowel sounds.

It is important to ensure that we are modeling the letter sounds correctly when teaching our kids how to blend them. Watch the video above, from the University of Florida Literacy Institute, to hear how we pronounce each sound.

Take a look at the photos to the left for some examples of fun multisensory activities that let students practice their sounds and words while using their senses!