Resources

Parent Resources

• Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
  Materials that provide parents and teachers with simple ways to enhance daily activities and routines with literacy specific opportunities.

• All About Young Children: Information for Families on Children’s Early Development
  The online publication All About Young Children: Information for Families on Children’s Early Development provides resources for families based on the California Infant/Toddler Learning & Development Foundations and the California Preschool Learning Foundations. Parents and family members can find out what skills help children from birth to five learn, how they learn language, how they learn about feelings and relationships, how they learn about numbers, and how they become skillful at moving their bodies.

• Care About Quality: Your Guide to Child Care
  This resource guide was published by the California Department of Education in 2000 to provide parents and family seeking child care with key indicators of quality child care settings, information on the types of child care available, and tips for interviewing potential child care providers.

• Education Resources for Spanish Speakers / Recursos en Espanol
  Resources from the United States Department of Education for Spanish speakers.

• Parental Involvement
  Information for parents and family members about becoming involved in the education of their children.

• Talk, Read, Sing Together, Every Day!
  A suite of resources from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Education that can help enrich children’s early language experiences beginning from birth. The information includes tip sheets for families, preschool teachers, and infant/toddler teachers and caregivers, as well as a fact sheet that highlights the evidence behind the benefits of being bilingual and embracing children’s home languages. All tip sheets are available in English and Spanish, and can be downloaded for free.

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