Family Resources
Listed below, you will find links to resources that you may find helpful in supporting your students' academic success from home.
Category | Common Core Standards | Homework Help | Math | Online Skills Practice | Reading | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Resource | |||||||||||||||||||||
Description | This site features information for parents about the Common Core Standards. | This site features information about how to help your child with homework as well as how to motivate him/her for success. | This site features tips for helping your child with homework. | This site features links to documents about ways to help your child with homework. | Math Goodies is a math education portal with 500 pages of activities for students, parents and educators. | Books on various math topics as well as activity guides and related resources. | This link will direct you to an article from USA Today entitled "More Time in Class Equals Better Math Skills" | This link will direct you to an article entitled "Helping Children Learn at Home: Math and Science Tips for Young Children" | This website links to hundreds of "virtual manipulatives," which can help students visualize and better understand mathematical concepts. | A PDF booklet published by the U.S. Department of Education that is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math. | A math site that features fun games for building foundational math skills. | This link will direct you to a page of valuable tips for helping students with math. | On this site, you can read all of the Common Core Standards for Mathematics for all grade levels. | XtraMath is a free web-based program that helps students master basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Students learn to recall them quickly and accurately and can then use these math facts as a basis on which to build more complex problem-solving skills. | The Toolkit for Parents and Families is a collection of materials and resources that will help parents and families understand education reform initiatives and how the changes will help your child graduate from high school ready for college and careers. | This link is a downloadable PDF book with a whole host of information about math literacy and how to support your child in mathematics. | IXL provides comprehensive, standards-aligned math and language arts practice for K–12. | Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. | This is a PDF file with tips about ways to help your child with reading at home. | Informative article by Marilyn Lopes entitled "8 Ways Parents Can Promote Reading at Home" | This site features links to a wide variety of resources for supporting reading. |