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Bring literacy and love of learning into everyday family moments.

Resources for parents

 

Reading with your Ears

Audiobooks are like elevators: critical for people with disabilities, and wonderfully useful for everyone else. This guest post on Vocabulogic outlines how all kinds of audiotext support vocabulary learning

"TEll me a Story" Cards

For parents and teachers: have fun building oral language, listening comprehension, and story mapping with these storystarter prompts. Spanish and English. Download the storytelling cards here.

HOMEWORK DO's & Don'ts 

Helping with homework can be a tricky situation. Download this guide for examples of the best ways to help, tactics to avoid and specific questions for math and science homework. 

Slides/Handouts

2019 Support for Families of Children with Disabilities Information & Resource Conference
family_literacy_april_2019.pdf
File Size: 7082 kb
File Type: pdf
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Slides/Handouts from 2019 EdRev Expo
filippini_edrev_2019.pdf
File Size: 2285 kb
File Type: pdf
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behavior_intro_handouts.pdf
File Size: 100 kb
File Type: pdf
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​Summer Strides
Easy tips to keep learning alive

Summer offers precious opportunities for new experiences, building relationships, and exploring the outdoors. But parents may worry about how to keep their kids engaged with learning while school’s out — especially for children who have been working super hard this year to catch up with academic skills. You want to help them maintain or even grow their skills, but also give them a break from school. You want them to learn, but not burnout and maybe even rekindle a love of learning.

​Keep reading for 9 tips to help your kids make strides this summer...
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