Reading 101 A Bilingual Guide For Families Colorín Colorado

Learn how you can help your child learn to read by celebrating your language, culture, and special time together at home. This video is also available in 7 other languages. For Families Bilingual resources offer parents tips on helping children learn to read, succeed in school, and learn a new language. Tool to Build a More Diverse Home Book Collection A Home Library Questionnaire to help parents reflect on and diversify the types of books families share at home. Raising Readers: What Parents Can Do 20 tips to help parents create a sense of enjoyment, wonder, and a passion for reading. Developing Your Child’s Reading Skills and Raising Ready Readers Tips to support children at each stage of their education with encouragement to read books that celebrate diversity and foster critical thinking.

Cultivating Readers Available in both English and Spanish, the Cultivating Readers Family Guide provides tips to grow reading skills from birth to age eight. There are many different ways multilingual families can support their child's literacy, education, and social-emotional health. These resources, available in multiple languages, offer tips and ideas to try at home! For more resources, see our multilingual family literacy video series and our bilingual family literacy guide. These tip sheets were made possible by our founding partner, the AFT, and the National Education Association. Learn how you can to read by celebrating your language, culture, and special time together at home.

Related resources include: Learn how families can support literacy at home, whether their children are babies, toddlers, preschoolers, or in elementary school. These reading tips are available in 13 languages. "Thanks to your site, the literacy committee at our school in St. Paul, MN, will provide Parent Tip Sheets to families who speak Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, and Vietnamese at home. I've already given tip sheets to a Korean parent who is on the committee, and he just beamed.

He said, 'I can read English, but I can just look at this and read it in 10 seconds!'" Our one-page parent tips offer easy ways for parents to support their children’s literacy development. The tips — for babies through grade 3 — are available in English and 12 other languages. A child’s success as a reader begins much earlier than the first day of school. Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page parent tips offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers.

Although we’ve divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child. View these parent tips online (and download as a PDF): The downloadable tips for parents are available in the following languages: There are many ways that families of English language learners (ELLs) can support language and literacy at home! Colorín Colorado’s new series of 8 tips for families is available in 16 languages. Share these tips with your families in two ways:

1) A tip sheet: One single page with all 8 tips2) One tip at a time To access this toolkit with downloadable pdfs, visit: Colorin Colorado Reading Tips In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about reading and how to support their children at home. Reading and Writing SOS was produced in partnership with the National Education Association. One of the most important things parents can do is provide lots of language and literacy experiences at home. Language and literacy expert Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan suggests that you share family stories with your child, use descriptive vocabulary in everyday conversations, and try to read aloud for at least 20 minutes each day to...

See this question and answer in Spanish: Aún estoy aprendiendo inglés. Entonces, ¿cómo puedo ayudar a mi hijo a aprender a leer? (opens in a new window) (Colorín Colorado). Language and literacy expert Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan says that it’s important to find out early if your child is having difficulty with letters and sounds. Ask your child’s teacher if she has been screened or tested in your home language, and learn the early warning signs for dyslexia. Elsa also shares easy ways to help your child practice letters and sounds at home — one way is to build on the connections between English and Spanish.

Observe your child’s progress and don’t hesitate to talk with your child’s teacher about any concerns.

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