Upgrading for Parents with Pre-Schoolers
 

Theme 2 – Literacy at Home
Instructors’ Guide
 
 
Materials to Print Out
 
As Your Child Grows (selected pages)
Three Little Lambs – photocopy back-to-back to make a booklet
Choosing Books
Read to Your Kids!
Sam’s Rainy Day Boots
Math Goes Shopping
Links

As Your Childs Learns

The Struggle for Literacy

www.pbs.org/parents/earlylearning/parenting.html

http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/samsboots.htm

www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/writing/main.html

 
Children’s Program

Children’s Program

 
Above and Beyond
 
bulletVisit the local library and borrow a selection of children’s books.
bulletInvite a local librarian to give a presentation about children’s books.
bulletShare a selection of children’s books with a small group of other parents. Talk about ways to make each book ‘come alive’ during the reading.
bulletWrite a review of a favourite children’s book.
bulletMake an educational game or activity to use at home with own children.
bulletMake a book for own child.
bulletExplore websites about early literacy.
bulletRead articles in parenting magazines.
bulletPlay games that build language and math skills.