1. Parent Tips:
CCSD Summer Reading Club 2012
Guide for Student Success in School
Sponsored by: Title 1
2. • Parent Involvement • Reading to Infants and
• Academic Readiness Toddlers
• Social Readiness • Reading to K-3rd
• Independence • Reading 4th-6th
• Listening and • Reading to all
Speaking • Homework
• Play • Conferences
• Active • Questions to ask my
child
Topics
3. • You are your child’s first teacher.
• Talk, Talk, Talk to your child!!!
• Instill a love of learning.
• Be a partner with the teachers.
• Monitor homework.
• Volunteer to be a guest reader, parent helper or PTO member.
• Communication is key: Read and respond to newsletters and
information sent home.
• Plan to attend the Title I Parent Conference – Nov. 7
• Know your child’s ThinkCentral Account info.
• Create a Parent Portal Account.
Parent Involvement
4. • Read to your child daily and ask them about what
you read.
• Help your child to learn to write their name.
• Work with your child on puzzles and games that
require counting and problem solving.
• Let your child scribble, draw, write, cut and paste.
• Sing songs, rhyming and ABC song. Work with
letter magnets.
• Talk about the sights and sounds of your day.
Academic Readiness
5. • Set rules and give consequences for breaking them.
• Establish regular mealtime and bedtime routines.
• Encourage play and talk with other children.
• Encourage your child to consider the feeling of
others.
• Model and discuss positive ways for your child to
express his or her feelings.
• Discourage hitting, screaming, and other negative
behaviors.
• Show your child he/she is loved each day.
Social Readiness
6. • Make sure shoes and clothing are easy for
children to buckle and fasten on their own.
• Let your child get dressed and put shoes on by
him or herself.
• Start allowing them to do simple chores like
picking up toys or helping to set the table.
• Let your child work independently on puzzles.
Independence
7. • Listening and speaking are the first steps to reading and
writing.
• Have regular conversations with your child.
• Encourage your child to listen when others are speaking.
• Answer your child’s questions even if the answer may be
“NO!”
• Help your child to learn and use new words.
• Model the language you want your child to use.
• Write notes to your child.
• Help your child to write letters to friends and family
members.
Listening and Speaking
8. • Children need a variety of toys for dress-up,
make believe and imitation.
• Help your child learn to take turns while playing
with others. Try having a night where you play
board games.
• Give your child opportunities to play with other
children their age.
Play
9. • Aside from sleeping, children should not be
inactive for longer than one hour at a time.
• Limit TV and video game playing to no more
than 1-2 hours a day.
• No TV in their room.
• Be active together as a family.
Active
10. • Read with expression and different voices for the
characters.
• Use pictures for vocabulary development to talk with
your child about what is known.
• Encourage your child to ask questions by modeling a
question and possible answer. “I wonder what is going to
happen next?” “I think …what do you think?”
• Make reading a habit.
• Let them choose their own books.
• Read stories again and again!!
Reading to Infants and Toddlers
11. • Keep reading to your child even though they can read. Choose
a book that is too difficult for them to read alone.
• Encourage your child to make predictions and connections
throughout the story.
• Talk about which types of stories your child likes best. Have
them explain their reasons for their preference.
• Talk about favorite authors and help them find other books by
the same author.
• Take turns reading the story together. Do not correct small
mistakes that don’t change meaning.
• Talk about what happens at the beginning, middle, and end.
• Have fun! The most important thing you can do is show that
you enjoy and value reading!
Reading to K-3rd
12. • Take turns reading a book together.
• Ask your child to compare the book to another.
How are the characters the same…different?
• What part of the story did you like best and why?
• Did you like the ending? Why or why not?
• How does this book compare to others you have
read by the same author?
• How was the mood created? Through
words…pictures?
Reading 4th-6th
13. • Set a good example. Read every day at home even
if it is not a book.
• Make reading fun-a time when you look forward to
spending time together.
• Access books and other materials from your local
library.
• Share with your child’s teacher what their favorite
type of book is to read.
• Ask the school for reading material.
Reading to all
14. • Establish a routine.
• Provide a quiet, well-lit space.
• Encourage, praise, advise, and supervise.
• Take breaks.
• Check work for accuracy, completeness,
and neatness.
Homework Dos
15. • Do the work for them.
• Allow them to make excuses for incomplete or sloppy
work.
• Change, criticize, or belittle the teacher’s assignment.
• Allow them to skip an assignment because they don’t
like it.
• Be involved in so many non-school activities that there
is no time for homework and play.
• Relieve the child of the responsibility of returning the
work to school.
Homework Don’ts
16. • Start with a positive attitude. How can we work together to
help my child achieve?
• How can I help my child at home?
• Exchange information, the more we know, the better off we
are.
• Be Specific. Bring with you any work that is of concern.
• Take notes.
• Support yourself. If you are not confident about
communicating, bring someone with you.
• Leave with a plan in place to help your child succeed.
Conferences
17. • Tell me about the best part of your day.
• What was the hardest thing you had to do today?
• Did any of your classmates do something funny?
• Tell me about the books you read.
• Who did you play with? What did you play?
• What’s the biggest difference between this year
and last year?
• What rules are different at school than at home?
• Can you show me something you learned or did
today?
Questions to ask my child
