Parents and Family | Cradle to Career Roadmap

The role of parents and families in the success of their children cannot be overstated. From birth on, family involvement in all aspects of children’s lives impacts the academic and social-emotional well-being of the whole child.

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San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

The Countywide Vision is a community-based effort to create a county where residents and investors can prosper and achieve well-being. The Countywide Vision website includes the Countywide Vision statement, information on progress being made to achieve the Vision, and resources to help everyone participate in the Vision effort.
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Literacy Activities in the Home

Literacy Activities in the Home

This document provides interactive literacy activities designed for parents to use with their child at home.
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Footsteps2Brilliance

Footsteps2Brilliance

Students can engage in early literacy learning in this fun and engaging game-based platform that is accessible on-line or as an app download. These fun activities support the development of print concept, phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition

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13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling

To extend your child’s language ability and vocabulary, here is a list of our favorite PBS KIDS games that all center around learning letters, reading, and telling stories.

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Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time

Four ideas to encourage family reading time! This resource from PBS is designed for parents.

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On-the-Go Literacy Games

Learn new family literacy games that can be played anywhere!

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Learning at Home: 9 Early Literacy Activities

This resource from PBS for Parents describes nine fun easy-to-do activities for home literacy learning.

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Community Engagement Initiative-Statewide System of Support

The Community Engagement Initiative is a five-year effort intended to strengthen the System of Support by building the capacity of school districts to authentically engage one another. This includes identifying effective models of community engagement, developing metrics to evaluate those models, having difficult conversations, building trusting relationships and participating the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) development process.

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ISEF Finalist Winner 2022

Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition awarding approximately $4 million in prizes each year.

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Science Snacks - Exploratorium

Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom and home. Each activity uses inexpensive, easily-available materials, offers detailed instructions and images, provides a clear explanation of what's going on, and is adaptable to a wide range of curricula, content areas, grade levels, and settings.

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San Bernardino County Museum

The San Bernardino County Museum, in Redlands, California, is a regional museum with exhibits and collections in cultural and natural history. Special exhibits, extensive research collections, and public programs for adults, families, students, and children are all part of the museum experience.

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Dual Capacity Framework for Family Engagement

The Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships is designed to support the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs for schools and districts.

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25 Activities to make reading & writing fun!

Develop enthusiasm for reading and writing.

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Reading Activities for the classroom & at home

Reading activities for the classroom & at home.

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Homework Hotline - Harvey Mudd College

The Harvey Mudd College Homework Hotline is a free over-the-phone math and science tutoring service for students in grades 4 through 12. We’re open five nights per week, Monday through Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m. PST. We’ve always been a free service, and we always will be. Our tutors are all students at Harvey Mudd College, one of the top-ranked STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) schools in the nation, and they’re all selected for their technical expertise AND their superior communication skills. They get extra training to make sure they give you the best possible service!

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Math Playground

Math games that build students understanding of mathematical concepts.

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Apps and Games to Encourage Mathematical Thinking

Apps and games that encourage mathematical thinking can also be fun!

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Six Ways to Support Your Child's Mathematical Development

Here are 6 ideas for parents/guardians to try, and links to many more resources.

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Place Value Activities for K-3 Children

Understanding place value and base-ten concepts is critical for all young children’s ability to compute using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Here are some simple games to help children explore these important place value ideas and have fun at the same time.

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Counting and Young Children

Counting is the most basic of all number skills and the most natural place for very young children to begin learning mathematics. This article is a primer on how parents might start their young children in the wonderful world of counting—and plant the seeds of enjoying math at a young age.

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Math at Home

A great place for parents to start supporting their children’s mathematics learning is Math at Home, a short parent guide to mathematics education. This booklet, provided by the California Mathematics Council (CMC), was written expressly for parents and guardians of K-12th grade children. This booklet contains straight-forward information, practical suggestions, and resources for families who wish to better understand the importance of mathematics and the role they can play in helping children learn this critical subject.

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Early Learning Math at Home

A great place for parents to start supporting their children’s mathematics learning is Early Learning Math at Home, short parent guides to mathematics education. These booklets, provided by the California Mathematics Council (CMC), were written expressly for parents and guardians of Pre-K children. This booklet contains straight-forward information, practical suggestions, and resources for families who wish to better understand the importance of mathematics and the role they can play in helping children learn this critical subject.

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Parent Organization Network Family & Community Engagement Report 2021

The Parent Organization Network (PON) and Transformative Inquiry Designs for Effective Schools and Systems (TIDES) partnered for this research project and analyzed school district rating and narrative responses to the 2021 Priority 3 Self-Reflection Tool. The Tool is focused on three areas: building relationships between staff and families, building partnerships for student outcomes, and seeking input for decision making.

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Reading Online Games

Games to practice letter, phonics, decoding, vocabulary, word study, and comprehension.

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Teaching Kids News

This site gives students the opportunity to read and answer questions while engaging in the news. Students select the current events they want to learn more about.

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Sesame Street Reading Games

Play reading games with characters from Sesame Street for younger children.

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PBS Kids - Reading Games

Explore reading and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters.

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E-books for Teachers and Children

An E-book library, Oxford Owl provides many free resources to support teaching and learning in primary schools and at home while others can be purchased with a subscription.

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Online Reading Games

This website provides reading games and activities that expose students to a variety of skills and reading strategies that will help to create better overall comprehension. Skills covered include main idea, drawing conclusions, context clues, cause and effect, fact and opinion, synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary, and more.

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Free Rice Vocabulary Practice

Learn vocabulary words by playing an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world by earning a grain of rice for every question answered correctly.

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Storyline Online

Storyline Online is a children's literacy website created by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, which provides free storytelling videos and resources for parents and teachers to foster a love of reading in children.

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Epic Books

Epic provides access to over 40,000 high-quality illustrated books and chapter books for children ages 12 and under. Create a login and it's free!

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Phonics Games for Kids

Phonics Games for Kids Phonics Games Online by Level, Preschool Reading Games, Kindergarten Reading Games, 1st Grade Reading Games, 2nd Grade Reading Games. Covering, Letters of the Alphabet, Short Vowels, Beginning and Ending Consonants, Long Vowels, Vowel Digraphs, S Blends, R Blends, L Blends, R-controlled Vowels, Special Vowels, Diphthongs and more. Copyright KizPhonics.com

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Engaging Phonics Games for Kids

Phonic sounds help kids identify alphabets. Identifying and reading phonics form the building blocks of a child’s language development. At SplashLearn, we’ve merged this fundamental learning requirement with interactive games to make learning phonics an engaging experience for your child!

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Reading Machine

The Reading Machine provides links to 36 online games to help you teach and reinforce important reading skills, and to help your students practice and enhance their skills. The games make great "reward time" activities too.

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Read Works

ReadWorks is a free website offering research-based strategies and resources for differentiated reading instruction, specifically comprehension. Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles.

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What is the Science of Reading? - Timothy Shanahan

Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. This week he answers questions and share more about the Science of Reading.

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What is the Science of Reading?

Online article providing information about the Five Key Elements of Scientific Reading Instruction and the Three Elements of Science-Based Phonics Instruction.

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California Arts Education Framework

Celebrate and gain a greater understanding of California’s Arts Education Framework! Learn how the Arts Education Framework supports: Developing students’ artistic literacy Implementing the California Arts Standards for Public Schools, Prekindergarten Through Grade Twelve (Arts Standards) Providing equitable arts education for each and every student

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San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

Literacy Activities in the Home

Literacy Activities in the Home

Footsteps2Brilliance

Footsteps2Brilliance

13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling

13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling

Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time

Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time