Kindergarten | Cradle to Career Roadmap

Children in kindergarten build their independence, self-reliance and self-confidence. These skills begin developing at home as children take more responsibility for simple tasks such as dressing themselves with less outside help. Being prepared for school includes academic knowledge such as recognizing their first and last name but children also will also need to be able to communicate their needs, feelings and interests.

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Mathematics Activities for Families

Students from pre-school through high school need to see the fun side of math and families can play a wonderful role in helping children enjoy doing math. You can find activities in many areas of mathematics that provide students with opportunities to learn, and give them insights into how mathematics works.

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Math at Home

The California Mathematics Council wants you to share the Pre-K and K–12 Math at Home resources with parents, guardians, and families! A great place for parents to start supporting their children’s mathematics learning is Math at Home, short parent guides to mathematics education. These booklets were written expressly for parents and guardians of Pre-K and K-12th grade children. Each 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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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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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? Video

Reading is like a mathematical equation, find out what helps to move reading forward in our young readers. YouTube Video by University of Florida Literacy Institute.

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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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CREEC Network

The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is a program of the California Department of Education. The CREEC Network fosters regional partnerships throughout the state of California to promote environmental education and environmental literacy by providing teachers with access to high quality professional learning opportunities and education resources. Along with statewide sponsors and partners, each of the 11 California CREEC Regions provides professional learning opportunities and resources to educators as well as foster communications among schools and organizations interested in supporting the environmental literacy of California’s teachers and students. More information on the CDE’s CREEC Network program is posted on the CDE website. For Region 10 - RIMS information & resources go to: https://www.creec.org/Home/Region/10

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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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. Be sure to explore #metkids in the dropdown menu!

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Google Arts and Culture

An amazing free interactive Art website! So much to explore, play and investigate!

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Create California

Create CA advocates for high quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and by mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners.

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The California Arts Project

The California Arts Project (TCAP) is a collaborative, statewide network of teachers and university scholars with the singular goal of expanding student access to and improving student artistic literacy development in dance, media arts, music, theatre, visual, and career arts.

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Arts Connection: The Arts Council of San Bernardino County

The Arts are the Seeds of Innovation. Arts Connection is dedicated to stimulating creative and economic vitality and enriching lives throughout the communities we serve by providing support, promotion, education, and advocacy for the arts.

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The Noun Project

Noun Project is building a global visual language that unites us — a language that allows quick and easy communication no matter who you are or where you are. The Most Comprehensive Icon Collection in the World. Our community of designers from 120+ countries is building the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created. Icons are some of the most universal communication tools available, crossing language and cultural boundaries.

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National Resource Center For Asian Languages

National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL) was established in 2014 to improve the nation’s capacity for the teaching and learning of Asian languages including Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Khmer. NRCAL is 1 of 16 language resource centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Pre-Referral Flowchart - Multilingual Learner for Initial Special Education Assessment

Team Considerations for Use Prior To Referral of A Multilingual Learner For Initial Special Education Assessment. This resource was created by Imperial County Office of Education to improve outcomes for English learners with disabilities.