Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read a text correctly and quickly. Find out what strategies are recommended to improve students' fluency and how to incorporate those strategies at home and at school.
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Learning Activities: Peace Education
This series of activities for early elementary students focuses on peace education. Emphasis is on our behavior and how it impacts peace.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Simple Ways to Encourage Learning
This site offers several simple ways to encourage learning in your child.
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Good Character: Do the Right Thing
Choose to do the right thing when faced with tough decisions. This website helpd you use good judgment by providing simple questions and example situations. Includes ideas for writing and activities as well as notes for parents.
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Study: Sharing I Pads Beats 1 to 1 Programs for Improving Student Learning
This article from Education Week discusses a study where kindergartners who shared iPads in class scored higher on literacy assessments than their peers in 1-to-1 or tablet-free classrooms. The researcher said the results suggest that...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Device Free Dinner
Several resources to help parents and kids understand and communicate about limiting device use during family meals and social get-togethers.
Childnet
Childnet: Screen Time & Healthy Balance [Pdf]
These quick activities around balancing screen time are designed for use with 7- to 11-year-olds but can be easily adapted for other ages.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: What Kind of Screen Time Parent Are You? Take This Quiz and Find Out
An article and a quiz for parents on technology use by parents and kids. Includes a short interview with author Anya Kamenetz who wrote "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life." [5 min.]
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Respect (Spanish)
Learn how to be respectful with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. This Spanish version page, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in school and...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Responsibility (Spanish)
Learn how to be responsible with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. The Spanish version of this website, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Citizenship
Learn about good citizenship with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. This website, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in school and at home.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Citizenship (Spanish)
Learn about good citizenship with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. This Spanish version web page, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in school...
Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum: Printable Activities
These word searches and puzzles are best used in conjunction with a visit to the Geffrye Museum in London. However, you can print and use at home or at school regardless.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Why Do People Have Jobs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart not only introduces the importance of Jobs at home and in our community it is a great starter for Career Day at school. The lesson can extend to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade towards...
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Getting Started in Homeschooling: The First Ten Steps
Here are some considerations to ponder concerning homeschooling for your children. Author lists the benefits of homeschool as she sees them.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Being Responsible
Teaching young learners about responsibility just got a little easier. Use this resource to find discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts about being responsible.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Homeschooling
This encyclopedia entry on homeschooling covers all facets of this form of education including potential motivations for homeschooling, public opinions, laws, methods, results and resources.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lego Block Center (Activity)
This lesson assists in developing teamwork in kindergarten age children and encourages them to take a look at their local community and its institutions.
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Operation Santa Paws: Holiday Toys and Treats for Shelter Pets
Here is an idea for organizing a volunteer effort to collect needed items for animal shelters.
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I D Tech: Benefits of Technology & the Right Kind of Screen Time for Children
This article describes seven ways that technology use can benefit children.
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