Welcome to the Parent's Page  
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
George Santayana
How parents can help at home
- Let your children see you read every day. They will learn that reading is important.
- Read for enjoyment. Your children will copy what you do.
- Make sure your children have books and other printed materials.
- Point out the letters and words that you see everywhere. Read aloud traffic signs, street signs, store signs, billboards, and maps as you travel to and from home and elsewhere.
- Give your children supplies for writing, such as a chalkboard, chalk, markers, highlighters, a marker board, paper, pencils, and crayons.
- Give your children books as gifts on birthdays and on special holidays.
When reading a book with your children, you can:
- Take your time reading. Do not rush.
- Point to the words as you read. Help them to see that there are spaces between words, that you read from the top of the page to the bottom and from left to right.
- Ask them to think about the story as you read it.
- From time to time, talk about specific letters and words in the story.
- Get library cards for your children and let them choose books to check out.
- Let your children participate in community literacy programs. Enfoll them in library-sponsored summer reading programs.
- Encourage your older children to read with your younger children.
- Remember to keep reading aloud to your children even after they read on their own!
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