How Can Parents Help?

We Both Read

These unique books can be checked out by your child's Supplemental Programs teacher.  We Both Read books feature an interactive format designed for a child to take turns reading aloud with an adult. The left-hand pages feature more sophisticated text for the adult to read. Then, for their turn, the child reads the right-hand pages, which feature text written closer to his/her reading level.

When reading the books, notice that the adult introduces some vocabulary (bold words), that later show up in the child text.  Emphasize or talk about these words.  This is a perfect opportunity to help increase your child's reading vocabulary. 

Click below to see the We Both Read books modeled.


RAZ Kids

Supplemental Programs students have been given a login to a website that gives them access to hundreds of online books for students to read.

Raz-Kids.com gives you hundreds of interactive, leveled books spanning 27 levels of difficulty, covering a wide range of subjects. Reading these and other "Just Right Leveled" books will give them the practice they need to become better, more confident readers.  To login go to http://raz-kids.com/login

If you have questions or your child has forgotten his/her password, check with your child's Supplemental Programs teacher.

Helping Your Child Learn High Frequency Words (words that occur most often in text, but may not follow regular spelling patterns)


Supplemental Programs Parent Newsletters:


Helping Your Child Learn the Letters and Their Sounds


Supplemental Programs Forms


Websites for Kids and Parents


If you are a parent of a child who is receiving supplemental programs services through Title or Comp Ed, there are a variety of resources that will better help you understand our program. Each parent receives an overview of these programs explaining funding, student identification, and program guidelines. A monthly newsletter will provide suggestions for reading and math support as well as information about homework help, discipline, and character education. If your child is in a Title building you will also be asked to sign a Parent Compact. The purpose of this compact is to ensure that all stake holders take responsibility in the education of your child.

At home you can:

  1. Support regular attendance at school and promote a positive excitement about learning.
  2. Praise your child about work well done and display it.
  3. Read to your child. Listen to your child read to you.
  4. Talk about the story: ask questions that will promote answers that require a thoughtful response. Examples: What will happen next? How do you think the story will end? Which character did you like best in the story? Have your child ask you a questin about the story, this will provide the opportunity for you as a parent to model thoughtful responses.
  5. Discuss what your child did at school and practice  skills being taught in reading and math using everyday situations. (Example-counting money, telling time, measuring, reading road signs, or grocery labels)
  6. Schedule a routine time for homework and provide your child a quiet work environment.
  7. Monitor and regulate TV viewing.
  8. Spend time together in leisure reading.
  9. Read together communications from school and Title/Comp Ed Program. 

The Benefits of Reading Aloud
Research has shown that reading out loud to children is the single most important thing a parent can do to enhance their child's academic success. Reading stories together, even after children are able to read for themselves, encourages family communication and provides natural occasions to share family values. Additionally, reading aloud offers rich interactive opportunities for entertainment, unlike more passive alternatives such as watching television and videos.

Reading Aloud...
•   Helps to bond the parent and child.
•   Teaches a child to understand the purpose of the printed word.
•   Builds a child's vocabulary beyond what he is able to read; new words are learned with shared understanding.
•   Entices a child into an exciting world of learning.
•   Helps a child absorb great amounts of information when parents lead children into discussing what is read.
•   Helps to develop the child's critical thinking and listening skills.
•   Gives the family an alternative to the media for entertainment.
•   Develops the child's interest in and appreciation of literature.

Tips for Reading Aloud
Establish a regular time and place. Reading every day for 20 minutes is more beneficial than reading for a longer period of time on a less frequent schedule.
Encourage children to pick their own books to read together by placing them at eye level and making them easily accessible.
Cuddle up together and encourage "pre-readers" to repeat words and phrases as you read to them.
Read favorite books over and over again. Children love to do this, and it is important because it helps them remember words, phrases, and even the sequence of a story so that they can begin to "read" it on their own.
Be an expressive reader-- it takes practice! When you read every day, your skill as a storyteller will improve.
Keep reading aloud as your kids grow. Until middle school, most children are better at listening than they are at reading.


Click links for parent and student websites:

http://pbskids.org/

http://www.teachersandfamilies.com

http://www.starfall.com (early readers)

http://mathisfun.com/

http://harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close_index.html



 TOGETHER WE CAN HELP OUR STUDENTS ACHIEVE SUCCESS