Reading Resources for Parents

A trail of 25 pages, marked with comments, by jamckay
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The following websites help parents understand why their child might be struggling with reading and gives techniques, strategies, and games to help them teach their child to read. 
25 marks in this trail
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This website helps parents understand why their child might be struggling with reading and gives techniques and strategies to help them teach their child to read. 
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This website summarizes seven tips for parents to remember in helping their child learn to read.  It also gives resources for other ways parents can get extra help for their child. 
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Developing literacy skills begins at birth.  This website is designed for parents with young children to help them in developing early literacy skills that will help their child be successful when entering school. 
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Reading skills are important to a child's success in school.  Parents play a crucial role in helping their child learn how to read and enjoy reading.  This website gives parents ways to make reading a part of their family's lifestyle. 
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Our school is becoming more and more diverse.  It is equally important for us as teachers to provide resources to all parents and families.  This website is an excellent resource as the reading tip sheets can be translated into numerous languages. 

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Helping your child learn how to read means not only reading to them but listening to them read and practice the decoding strategies they have learned at school.  This article gives parents the strategies to help their child in decoding words on their instead of just telling them the difficult words.   
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It is important for students to not only have effective strategies for decoding but strategies for comprehending text.  This is an excellent website for upper grade teachers as well as parents explaining each comprehension strategy.  This website also gives various links to other sites to visit for comprehension activities and follow-up activites for students to practice with.   
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This website from the U.S. Department of Education gives parents activites (for children from infancy through age 6) as well as resources and ways to help children develop the necessary skills for reading. 
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This website gives parents ten easy ways to improve their child's reading abilities.  It also allows parents to select their child's age for appropriate literacy building activities.  Another benefit is that it provides related literacy articles for more information. 
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This webpage was originally designed for teachers but parents could try these activities at home to motive their child to read! 
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Chidren love to read and write!  This website shows parents how they can help their child make a book as well as help their child connect reading and writing. 

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This website gives parents strategies to help their child learn about print and love reading.  It also supplies some fun reading activities to try together!

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Reading and writing are connected!  It is important for parents to read with their child as it is to write.  This website give parents some tips and activities on helping their child incorporate writing everyday as a form of communication. 

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Reading games are a great way for your child to practice reading skills and have fun  These games are great to play over the summer or on the weekends.  Enjoy!!
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Starfall has a variety of fun games to help your child with learning their letters and sounds to reading books!  Have fun!
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This website has many reading games to help your child learn the letters of the alphabet, sounds, sequencing a story, and much, much more!

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Kaboose offers a variety of reading games for ages 6 and up.  Check out these fun spelling and reading games! 

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Have you child practice their reading, spelling, and word skills with these language arts games!
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Help your child with their reading and writing abilities by playing these games! 
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This website offers reading games on beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, therefore, your child will be successful at each game! 

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Help your child learn how to form letters, learn upper case and lower case letters, letter sounds, rhyming words, and much, much, more!

1. This is a super trail!  I can't believe how many incredible sites you have identified for teaching preschool children!  Wish there were time to check them all out!
Posted at 12:23 on 2008-07-15 by funetics

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