101 Ways To Help Your Child Learn To Read And Write

Winner of the Parents’ Choice Approved Seal,* this book provides the perfect collection of practical and enjoyable suggestions to help children develop reading and writing skills during everyday activities—in the kitchen, while watching TV, at bedtime, in the car and more! Makes an effective, affordable handout for parents. Grades Pre-K–6. * For review, see the Awards section at www.parent-choice.org

101 Ideas para ayudar a sus hijos a aprender a leer y escribir

This ideal handout for parents, also available in English, gives parents 101 ideas to help improve their children’s learning skills during everyday activities—in the car, at bedtime, in the kitchen, at the store, and many more.

¡Leamos!/Let’s Read!

(101 Ideas to Help Your Child Learn to Read and Write) Our best-selling bilingual book offers parents 101 practical suggestions, side-by-side in Spanish and English, for parents to help their children develop reading and writing skills at home, at the store, in the car—everywhere! Short, easy ideas are enjoyable for the whole family.

Self-Esteem Made Easy: Encourage Confidence in Your Child

Also Available in Spanish. Self-Esteem Made Easy is intended to provide parents with an overview of what influences the development of a child’s self-esteem. Author Barbara Rosin shows that the parent’s role is fundamental in forming a child’s confidence. With easy-to-follow language and examples, Rosin leads parents through some of the key issues important to the good emotional health of their children. Topics include: Setting a Good Example, Listening and Communicating, Setting Boundaries, Responsibility and more. Self-Esteem… is divided into four easy-to-read sections. Each chapter includes hints for parents. Also included is a sample situation for illustration and discussion, and a suggested reading list.

Cómo Conseguir Trabajo en los Estados Unidos

(How to Get a Job in the United States: A Special Guide for Latinos) Available in Spanish Language Only. For the first time ever—a guide for Latinos in Spanish on landing a job in the U.S. This book addresses the fears and questions relating to a job search, interviewing, and methods for finding a job. A great resource for Adult Education and ESL classes!

Elementary Grammar: A Resource Book

Children can use this handy resource alone or with your help to answer questions about usage, catch up or move ahead for their age/grade level, or just get practice and review. Suitable for Grades K-6.

Grammar Handbook for Home and School

An indispensable source for answers to questions about English grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Suitable for Grades K-12.

For a Moment for a Lifetime

For a Moment for a Lifetime by Terry R. Wisniewski is a delightful collection of lyric and narrative poems that gives the reader a glimpse into a world where, for a moment, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. In that moment, possibilities are born. Ranging from cinematic imagery, to thoughtful musings, with the occasional dash of dry humor, this collection makes a great gift for that friend or colleague who enjoys curling up with a good book of poetry now and then.

Games for Reading

The activities in this book tackle the building blocks of reading and increase the desire to read. Includes games for learning words by sight, reading with understanding, and building motivation.

Games for Writing

This book begins with basic pencil control and works all the way through grammar and writing style with a collection of games to help children become skilled, confident, and enthusiastic writers.

Games for Math

Overcome the mysteries of math with marvelous games that your kids will love. Counting, sizes and shapes, arithmetic, and puzzles are all made interesting and exciting with over fifty games to instill the basics and stimulate the imagination.

Games for Learning

A collection of easy-to-learn games helps your child develop and refine critically needed skills covering a wide range of subjects, including reading and writing, math, science, and social studies.

Grandma & Grandpa, May I Come Over?

When grandchildren visit, they want to DO things. This book presents 52 different activitites for each week of the year. The activites are easy and inexpensive. They range from planting a seed to visiting a horse to dusting the bookshelves! All activities are both educational and enjoyable – a perfect gift for grandparents.

With Love, Grandma

This collection of sample letters and books to share is full of whimsical illustrations and drawings by children. Subjects include holidays, family, the seasons, and school. Also included are developmental charts and a list of resouces.

Gotcha, Grandpa

Opens up a dialog on many subjects and issues, including self-esteem, goals, persistence, heroes, lessons from history, and more. Each subject accompanied by actual letters from seniors, as well as age-specific book lists for sharing. Essays discuss the benefits of cross-generational communication.A great gift for grandparents.

Tutoring Children in Reading & Writing: Book 1 (Kindergarten)

Book 1 focuses on the building blocks of reading and writing with sample worksheets that focus on letter recognition, spelling, phonics, and comprehension. Suitable for Parents of Grade K.

Tutoring Children in Reading & Writing: Book 2 (Grades 1-2)

Book 2 focuses on the building blocks of reading and writing with sample worksheets that focus on letter recognition, spelling, phonics, and comprehension. Suitable for Parents of Grades 1-2.

Phonics Plus Book A

Develops a child’s skill in recognizing the alphabet and the initial sounds in words. 78 lessons on: printing, consonant letters and sounds, and the short vowels. Suitable for Parents of K-1.

Phonics Plus Book B

Help children learn to discriminate sound-symbol correspondences by listening, saying, seeing, then writing letters and words.Suitable for Parents of Grades 1-2.

Phonics Plus Book C

Develops your child’s skill in recognizing consonant sounds as well as the most important short and long vowels. Suitable for Parents of Grades 2-3.

Family Book Sharing Groups

Offers plans and agendas for six meetings where families can meet to gain mutual support and share ideas. Suitable for Parents of Grades K-12.

Help Your Child Read and Succeed: A Parents’ Guide

The expert advice and effective skill-building activities in this book will help boost your children’s reading -success. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to give them a good attitude and high motivation to read. Chapters also offer specific methods for improving reading, comprehension, vocabulary, and speed. In addition, parent/child activities are offered, along with recommended reading lists, stories to share, and read-aloud techniques.

Early Book Stages, 0-5 Years

(Creciendo Con Libros, 0-5 Años)

Parents discover how to give their children early book skills that will give them an advantage as they prepare to enter school. The video is divided into segments from 0-1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, 3-4 years, and 4-5 years. The youngest child who appears on the video is 4 months old.

Parents will also learn how to enjoy books with their children at each stage of their early reading development! This practical video shows parents and children interacting with books and explains the five normal stages each child goes through—from chewing the corners of books, to proudlyreading their favorite stories.

Video Highlights:

• Parents will learn how to read to their young children.
• Parents will be able to identify the developmental stages of using books.
• Children will be better prepared for success in school.
• Families from multicultural backgrounds are depicted.

Fanning the Flame

This video introduces and discusses the notion that parents are their children’s first teachers. First, it shows parents what they can do to set the stage for academic achievement. Then, it gives parents and educators steps they can take to encourage their children to maintain a level of academic success.

Facilitator’s manual also includes a Blackline Master for Parenting Inventory which includes 20 things parents do to contribute to their children’s success.

Steps include how to:

• Recognize a child’s natural skills and abilities
• “Fan the Flame” of each child’s motivation to succeed
• Identify the positive influences in a child’s life
• Build the relationship between school and home to support academic success

Make a Difference: Talk about Books

(Sea usted una buena influencia sobre sus hijos: Hable acerca de los libros)

Reading aloud and talking about books is the most powerful modeling behavior parents can do to promote their children’s reading and learning. This video demonstrates enjoyable ways parents can share books with their children, connect with their kids, promote mutual respect, improve school performance, and instill a love of reading.

Parents receive specific ideas they can use at home. The video is divided into three brief parts with opportunities to stop and discuss after each section. Includes a 16-page discussion guide. Appropriate for parents of children in grades Pre-K–6.

Parent Involvement: The Parent’s Role

This video encourages parents to get involved in whatever ways they can. Drs. Motsinger and Edwards interview parents who are successfully involved in promoting their children’s efforts at school in a variety of ways. They also show that teachers want to hear from parents and find it helpful to talk with them even when things are going well.

Facilitator’s manual includes Family Activities for Success in School with 10 ways parents can support academic success.

Parent Involvement: The School’s Role

In this video, Drs. Hillery Motsinger and Annie Edwards help educators get a handle on parent issues and give them ways to make parents more confident, comfortable and able to support their children in school. Interviews with school principals, teachers and parent coordinators, provide insight into parents’ issues and give educators strategies to use in order to effectively communicate with parents.

Facilitator’s manual includes the Home-School-Community Involvement Survey with 20 ways schools can support Parent and Community Involvement.

Parents as Tutors: Helping with Homework

(Los padres como tutores: Como ayudar con la tarea)

You can help parents with homework headaches! This video shows parents how to help their children with common homework problems in a way that encourages children and builds upon their study skills. Parents learn strategies to guide their children through reading assignments and comprehension, vocabulary and word recognition, writing assignments, and preparation for tests and oral reports.

Divided into four short parts, this video allows for discussion with parents and includes a 16-page discussion guide. Appropriate for parents of children in grades K–6.

Self-Esteem and Achievement Oriented Behavior

In this video, Dr. Motsinger gives parents the tools they need to identify where their children are on the stair-steps to self-esteem and achievement oriented behavior. Dr. Motsinger identifies for parents specific ways to positively influence their children’s self-esteem.

Each parent can learn to:

• Meet a child’s basic needs
• Meet a child’s relationship needs
• Recognize and respond appropriately to each child’s different style of behavior
• Recognize the traits of self-esteem and achievement oriented behavior
• Encourage achievement oriented behavior in a child

Facilitator’s manual also includes a Blackline Master for Activities for Building Self-Esteem in Your Child from A–Z.

Ventilando la llama

(Fanning the Flame)

In this two-part video, almost 40 minutes in length, a Spanish-speaking facilitator talks with Hispanic parents about what parents can do to help raise their children’s levels of academic success.

Part one introduces and discusses the idea that parents are their children’s first teachers. In part two, guidelines are given for supporting children during their school life. Parents and facilitator share ideas on everything from providing a place to study and frequent communication with the school to establishing family activities and showing children they are appreciated.

Includes a comprehensive Facilitator’s Manual that provides:

• Step-by-step guidelines for 4 Parent meetings
• Blackline Masters in both English and Spanish for:
• Parent Sign-up sheets
• Video objectives and outline
• Parent Group Discussion Forms
• Family Activities list
• Parenting Inventory (Reminds parents of the ways they contribute to their children’s success.)

Working with At-Risk Students: 2 Video Set

This two-part video series provides educators with background on at-risk students how they can learn and what drives them to achieve.

In Part I, The At-Risk Student Can Learn, gives criteria for identifying at-risk students and describes efforts and relationships that can work in tandem to make positive and effective interventions.

In Part II, Motivating the At-Risk Student, educators can gain insight into what basic factors influence student motivation as well as what motivates different students to succeed at school. Identifying a series of behavioral styles, Dr. Motsinger helps educators to positively respond to different students’ motivational needs in order to get the same result—improved student achievement.

Facilitator’s manual also includes a Blackline Master for Parenting Inventory which includes 20 things parents do to contribute to their children’s success.