•Encourage your child to write letters to their friends and relatives.

•Display your child's work at home.

•Write notes to your child with instructions for chores.

•Look for improvement in your child’s writing and give specific praise.

•Talk to your child about school work.

•Demonstrate a value of writing in real life situations by sharing with your child the kind of writing everyday.

•Encourage your child to keep a journal.

•Read a story with your child. Let your child predict the ending.

•Take a picture walk before you read and discuss what you think might hap pen in the story.

•Share opinions about what you both liked and didn’t like about the story.

•Talk about the setting, character, and theme of the story.

•Take turns reading out loud.

•Have your child retell a book to you using the pictures as a guide.

•Model reading by letting your child see you reading various types of books, magazines, etc.

BPS Read At Home Plan with New Worlds Reading Initiative

New World Reading Scholarships

Categorize everyday items with your child.

•Make a plan for your day and include an estimation of how much time each activity will take.

•Make up riddles with your child for each of you to solve.

•Cook together.

•Pretend you have a certain amount of money to spend it either “shopping” in catalogs or stores.

•Let your child “Teach” you what they are learning in Math.

•Talk to your child about what they are learning in Math at school and how these concepts can be used in everyday life.

BPS Math At-Home Resources

Mathematics At-Home Plan

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