Reading Tips for Your School Newsletter

Helping Create the School-Parent Reading Partnership

Read with a child. It's the most important 20 minutes of your day.

Parents are critical partners in helping children learn to read. Yet sometimes parents just don't know how to encourage reading at home or how to make it fun and interesting. We've created 24 paragraphs to help you help parents.

These short, concise articles are intended to provide parents real help in supporting elementary-age children become successful readers and writers. Some answer questions that parents often ask about how to help their children. Others give suggestions about ways to encourage reading and writing at home. They are grouped by topics but they are written so that they may be used in any order.

These articles are prepared by master teachers with expertise in teaching reading and motivating parents. They are designed to be dropped into school newsletters, principals' letters, posted around the building, or any other way you can implement them at your school, and were funded by a grant from the Washington Department of Early Learning, 2008.