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.

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.

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.

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.