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Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium

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Resources for Parents

Cultivating Readers: A Magazine for Parents
This parent-friendly magazine provides easy strategies for promoting reading throughout a child's early years plus tips on selecting age-appropriate books. It includes activities for parents of children ages birth to 2, 3 to 5, and 6 to 8.

Every Grownup is a Famous Storyteller
A photo booklet with engaging pictures of families, strong messages about the critical role of parents, and ideas to help parents support their children's learning

Family Math Fun
This manual is a ready to use resource for parents and providers that work with children. It has rhymes, games, activities, and things to make to promote math thinking and learning. Patterns, recipes, and hand-outs are all included.

Get Ready to Read Newsletter
This newsletter is a free monthly e-publication of the National Center for Learning Disabilities' Get Ready to Read! program. It offers early literacy news, activities, and online resources for parents and early childhood educators.

Grown-ups
This website page of the Boston Children's Museum explains that play is the important work of childhood. It provides activities for parents and children to engage in fun and learning at home along with tips for museum visitors.

Learn and Grow Together!
This resource guide helps parents understand the stages of child development from birth to 14 and provides suggestions for fun, low-cost family activities. Parents are encouraged to print the guide and discuss it with others. The guide is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

One Tough Job
This award winning website of the Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund provides parents with expert information, tips, and support they need to be the best parents they can be. The home page has a link to a Spanish version of the website.

Promoting Social and Emotional Health Through Early Literacy
A research-based handbook for parents and caregivers that promotes social and emotional health in children ages birth to seven (7) and provides information for adults looking to upgrade their own literacy skills

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young children learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. The project includes online services and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) TV programs.

The Role of the Parent in Family Literacy
This handout summarizes the roles parents play in their children's literacy development and provides five simple activities parents can do to build a solid foundation of family literacy at home.

How to Help Your Young Child Do Well in Reading
A brochure with ten suggestions parents can follow to help guide their young children to success in school and beyond, is available electronically in PDF format in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Please submit all inquires via email to reading@doe.mass.edu and specify language.

Family Literacy Month Bookmarks
Reproducible bookmarks with ideas to help parents support their children's learning during Family Literacy Month and all year long

  

Bookmarks I

  

Bookmarks II

  

Bookmarks III

  

Bookmarks IV

Please address any questions or comments to MFLC@doe.mass.edu