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The Adult Learner Page
http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/telecom/blob.html
ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids
http://www.ala.org/parents/
Crayola Creativity Center
http://crayola.com/
Donna's Day
http://ktca.org/donnasday/
Looking for ideas to stir up some family fun? Donna's Day is brimming with fresh ideas for stimulating and educating kids of all ages.
Dr. Seuss's Seussville
http://www.seussville.com/
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am,Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more!
Early Childhood Education Digest
http://Ed.gov/pubs/parents/erlychld.html
The Early Childhood Digest is a quarterly report on ways that families and schools can work together to help young children learn.
Families First Idea Book
http://cls.coe.utk.edu/lpm/ideabook/default.html
Categories include citizenship, classroom management, games, learning styles, life skills, numeracy, self-esteem, prgoress assessment, reading comprehension, social studies, writing and workplace literacy.
Family Literacy Resource Notebook
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/famlitnotebook/index.html
1998- An easy-to-read book (with an online version) that includes a long list of parent and child together (PACT) activities for use in family literacy programs.
McREL Educator Resources
http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp
The Early Childhood Digest is a quarterly report on ways that families and schools can work together to help young children learn.
Parent and Family Resources on the Web, 1999
http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/workshops/parents.htm
This is the site used for the Instructional Technology Workshop. This site provides many useful links in the following categories: Introduction (includes Browsing Seussville, Family Education Network, Zero-to-Three: National Center for Infans, Toddlers & Families, National Parent Information Network and Ask Jeeves for Kids), Hands-on Web-based Activities for Families, Other Parent and Family Web Links - Serious and Serious Fun.
Parent Made Development Toys: Integrating Parenting, Self-Esteem, Literacy & Fun
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/PACT
The EvenStart curriculum focuses on hands-on, sensori-motor learning materials for both parent and child. Parents make developmental toys during the ABLE sessions and also manipulate materials when they focus on their own learning needs. As a part of the integrated curriculum, each strength of the system is numbered. This approach unites EvenStart goals of Adult and Child Development, Parent Education and PACT in an integrated curriculum.
Preschool Education Dot Com
http://www.preschooleducation.com
Resources and activites targeting preschool ages.
ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com
This site focuses on resources, activities and ideas for teachers of all age groups.
Read Across America
http://www.nea.org/readacross/
Sesame Workshop
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/
Sesame Workshop and Sesame Street were created as an "experiment" in 1968, and the show debuted on November 10, 1969. The series was designed to use the medium of television to reach and teach preschoolers, and give them skills that would provide a successful transition from home to school. The show gave children a head start and provided them with enough confidence to begin learning the alphabet, numbers, and pro-social skills.
Trade Book Teaching Ideas from the OLRC Reading Group: "Baby" by Patricia MacLachlen, 1997
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0300-13.html
This site is a new addition to the OLRC's "Recommended Tradebooks for Adult Literacy Programs," (http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0300.htm) a searchable list of books suitable for adult literacy classrooms. It includes a lesson plan for using the book "Baby" as a teaching tool, as well as a discussion of how the book was field tested by both a rural and urban adult literacy program in Ohio.
Using Pre-Instruction Questionnaires to Improve the Small Group Writing Class, 1996
http://archon.educ.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0300-12.htm
Reflections on improved teaching practice based upon the use of pre-instruction questionnaires.
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