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What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

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Page 1: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

Page 2: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

Be Proud of Your Home Language and Culture

Page 3: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

Read to your child and with your child

• In English or your home language

• Reading gives the child new experiences and vocabulary

Page 4: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

Talk with your child

Page 5: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

What can we talk about?

• Talk about what you are doing at home – washing dishes, cleaning the house, cooking dinner, fixing the car, etc.

• Talk about things you find in the stores• Talk about colors, shapes, positional

words (in, on, next to, between, in front of)• Retell a story• Create a story• Sing a song, poem or nursery rhyme

Page 6: What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

Visit the Public Library

• Audio Books• Free children’s videos• Children’s programs• Free internet use• Native language books for children – Albanian,

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telegu, Urdu, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (12 Mile Branch)