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Table of Contents
Let's Read!
Let's Do
Math!
Let's Do Science!
Let's Succeed in School!
Let's Do
History!
Let's Do Geography!
Being Responsible
Let's Use the
Library!
Let's Write!
Let's
Use TV!
Let's Do Art!
Get
Ready for School!
Get to School Safely!
Let's Do Homework! |
Learning Partners
A Guide to Educational Activities for
Families
May 1997
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U.S Department of Education
Richard W. Riley
Secretary |
Office of Educational Research and
Improvement
Ramon C. Cortines
Acting Assistant Secretary
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Media and Information
Services
Cynthia Hearn Dorfman
Director |
Please feel free to reproduce this book in whole or in part; it
is in the public domain.
| Some of the Learning Partners factsheets that appear
in the booklet are also available in Spanish. To order, write the
ED Pubs, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or call the Department
of Education at 1-877-4-ED-PUBS.
Other materials from the Family Involvement Partnership for
Learning-for families, schools, employers, and community groups-can be obtained
by calling the U.S. Department of Education at
1-800-USA-LEARN. This includes information on the
AMERICA READS
CHALLENGE and the summer component
READ*"WRITE"*NOW.
The AMERICA READS
CHALLENGE is the President's initiative to ensure that all children can
read well and independently by the end of the third grade. As part of that
initiative, the READ*"WRITE"*NOW
program is designed to provide summer reading opportunities for all children
with the help of community volunteers.
Also check the U.S. Department of Education's Web site:
http://www.ed.gov
Many other federal publications on learning activities for
children are available through the Consumer Information Catalog. For a free
Catalog, write the Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, Colorado 81009. Or
visit their Web site at: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov
Designed by Phil Carr with cover by Kim
Silverman; edited by Linda Darby; project coordinated by Kathy Perkinson, of
OERI's Media and Information Services Staff. With grateful acknowledgments to
staff of OERI who contributed to content development: Oliver Moles, Beth Fine,
Clara Lawson-Holmes, and Carol Cameron Lyons; and to parent volunteers at the
Samuel E. Wheatley Enterprise School, Washington, DC, who reviewed the material
for content and design. |
Dear Learning Partner:
We know from education research that children from families who
are involved in and supportive of their education tend to perform well in
school.
To help spark family involvement, the U.S. Department of
Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement has consolidated its
Learning Partners series into one
booklet called Learning Partners: A Guide to
Educational Activities for Families. It is designed primarily
for families with preschool and elementary school-age children, although some
of the material is useful for older children.
The Learning Partners
series covers a lot of topics: reading, math, science, geography, history,
writing, responsible behavior, and many more. For each topic, there are
activities that you can do with your children to reinforce learning. Most are
simple, everyday activities. For instance, you and your children may want to:
- read aloud together-there is no more effective way to encourage
children to love books and reading than by reading aloud to them;
- sort the socks on laundry day-sorting is a major function in
math; or
- discuss how you think the clock works, why birds build nests,
how electricity helps us-science is everywhere and it's important to share the
knowledge we have.
We hope your family has fun doing the activities and develops many
more of its own. We've heard from a number of schools across the country saying
that they pass out Learning Partners
sheets at "Family Night," reprint them in newsletters, and send them home with
children. As you know, by doing things together, you can show your children
that learning is fun and important.
Ramon C. Cortines
Acting Assistant
Secretary for Educational
Research and Improvement
Let's
Read!  Let's Do Math! Let's Do
Science!
Let's Succeed in School!
Let's Do History! Let's Do
Georgraphy! Being Responsible
Let's Use the Library! Let's
Write! Let's Use TV! Let's Do Art!
Get Ready for School! Get to
School Safely! Let's Do
Homework! |
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