Pierson, JenniLee / Helping My Child

Helping Your Kiddo At Home

Many parents often ask how they can assist their child at home. Here is some information to help you support your child. I also encourage you to help your child do online activities, found on the 'Websites for Kiddos' page or apps, found on the 'Apps for Kiddos' site. The most important thing you can do is read with and to your child on a DAILY basis. Before exploring the web resources, check out this incredible finding!

Reading

~This is extremely informative to help parents learn about reading with their child http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents/

~This is an easy to read list of reading strategies, questions to ask your reader, and more! http://www.islandtrees.org/stokes/st_readstrategy.htm

~This provides information on how to model reading for children and provides activities you can do at home to help their growth http://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/departments/federalprograms/parentinvolve/E32011/TipsforEncouragingReading.pdf

~To help your child find new books, check out this site. Simply type a title or author that your child enjoys. You will receive a list of suggested books for your next library visit! http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

Writing

~We use the Lucy Calkins philosophy. For more information about her program, check out http://www.unitsofstudy.com/default.asp

~This site will provide information to help you support your writing child http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/howtohelpenglish

~Here are helpful tips for parents http://pmct.org/helpsucceed/writing.html

~This provides tips for helping your child with spelling http://www.education.com/reference/article/helping-children-progress-spelling/

~The High Frequency (common words) kiddos see are important to apply in daily work. For the lists, check out http://www.spellingcity.com/dolch-words.html Handwriting

~To review correct letter formation with your child, please visit http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/letters.html