Literacy Information for Parents

Children who struggle with learning to read need daily practice. Parents can play a positive role in helping their children read by reading to them and listening to their children read. Encouraging students to have fun while practicing phonics skills can be helpful. It is also important to develop other interests so children can feel success.

www.mindplay.com

We Teach Reading

Research based, on-line, reading instruction that includes phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabuary, fluency, comprehension and grammar.

www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

Literacy Center Education Network

The Literacy Center Education Network Play and Learn games are designed to support young children as they learn basic skills. We have created subject-based “learning loops”. Each learning loop has numbers on the top of the page. Each number represents a different game. The games are progressively more difficult. There are no advertisements inside the game area. All clickable areas are safe for preschool-age children.

http://literacycenter.net/play_learn/

bookshare.org

Ebooks for People with Reading Barriers

Bookshare helps people read in ways that work for them. They can listen to books, follow along with highlighted text, read i braille or large text and customize their experience.

Most of the student on IEPs, at Cielo Azul Elementary have been signed up for a Bookshare account. Bookshare provides audio books for students with reading difficulties. It is very important for students to have the opportunity to listen to text books or literature above their reading level. This can help a child keep up with schoolwork or be exposed to literature that will support building vocabulary and comprehension skills.

Use Bookshare in the summer to keep up on skills.

(User name is either initials in uppercase and student id# with no space or first and last name in all lower case letters with no space. Password can be changed if you don't remember it.)

International Dyslexia Association

The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and the South West Branch (SWIDA) offers a great deal of information and support for parents and students.

It is worthwhile to be informed.

Dyslexia is a neurological condition caused by a different wiring of the brain. There is no cure for dyslexia and individuals with this condition must learn coping strategies. Research indicates that dyslexia has no relationship to intelligence. Individuals with dyslexia are neither more nor less intelligent than the general population. But some say the way individuals with dyslexia think can actually be an asset in achieving success.

http://dyslexiaida.org/