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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Fantastically Fun Word Families
   Use the Word Mover mobile app to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Involving Students and Families in Ongoing Reflection and Assessment
   Students begin by writing a sentence or two each week and progress to daily reflections and records of their school activity. Families respond to these student reflections, which become the basis for discussion among family, teacher, and students.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
   Using text from Doreen Cronin’s Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher’s book when they listen to students’ take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Student Interactive  |  Learning About Language
   Word Family Sort
   This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 1
   Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
   Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 21
   Celebrate the first day of summer with summer reading.
   Families are invited to a June literacy fair to end the school year and get students on the right track for the summer.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Word Recognition Strategies Using Nursery Rhymes
   Whether you sing or recite familiar nursery rhymes in this standard lesson, students will learn how to create and categorize words that have similar endings.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 26
   Jan Berenstain, co-author of the popular Berenstain Bears series of books, was born in 1923.
   Teachers create "Book Kits" for students to help promote family literacy. Berenstain Bears books are included in these "book kits" which also include nonfiction books on the same subject, home activities, reproducibles, and parent information.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Letter Generator
    The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence.

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