General Supports
Reading and reading activities at home are important factors in the development of strong readers. PBS offers great reading strategies and activities that you can engage in with your children at home. Click here for link.
For children who are learning English as a second language, www.colorincolorado.org/reading-tip-sheets-parents consider these reading tip sheets. They are available in languages other than English at the bottom of the page.
Task Specific Supports
Community:
- If you have a number of ELLs speaking the same home language, invite family members to come into the classroom to talk with them about traditional stories in their home countries.
- Invite family members or teachers to come into the classroom to read their favorite traditional stories to the class.
- Invite authors of children’s literature in to speak to the students about writing stories.
- Invite a professional review writer, for example a music journalist, to come into the classroom to talk to students about the process of writing a balanced review.
- Visit a live performance of Peter Pan or another traditional story.
