This resource library is free to all parents, guardians or caregivers of a child. Please feel free to download
any or all materials that may help you improve your child's success in education.
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Young Adult/
College Bound
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Free Child
Identification Kit
This kit may be
invaluable in assisting
law enforcement officials
in identifying and rescuing missing or abducted children. Keep
this ID Booklet in a Safe Place!If your child should ever disappear,
take this booklet to the local police department immediately. For
more information about child safety, contact your local child
protection agency.
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Afterschool Fosters
Success in School
By: Afterschool Alliance (2008)
This brief describes how afterschool
programs can contribute to student
success by helping children's social
and emotional development, avoidance
of risky behaviors, improved school
attendance, engagement in learning,and
improved test scores and grades.
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My Brother's Friends
Learn how peer pressure, drugs and
gangs can ruin a teenager's life from the
perspective of a young child in this story strip.
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Funding Education
Beyond High School
Education creates
opportunities and is an important step toward success.
No eligible student should be denied an education
because the cost is too high. So, if you’re considering
education beyond high school (a two- or four-year
college, university or trade or career school), we offer
financial aid that helps millions of students manage the
cost of education each year. There's money available—
but you need to apply to receive it.
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Big Dreams:
Reading Matters
Reading can help
our dreams come true.
I show her that reading matters.
We spend time together.
I help him hear the sounds in words when we talk.
I help her learn the ABCs.
I help them know what words mean.
I help him practice reading.
I help him understand what he reads.
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After-School Programs:
Good for Kids, Good for
Communities
How many parents are at work today are
wondering what their kids are doing after
school? Are they safe? Are they getting
their homework done? Who are they
with? The truth is, many of America’s
children come home to spend hours of
unsupervised time in front of the
television or engaging in risky behaviors.
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Struggling Readers Guide
For a lot of us it can be hard to imagine having
such a feeling: But Madeleine! you want to
say. What about Harry Potter? What about
Little House on the Prairie? Beverly Cleary
and Judy Blume? Right now, Madeleine
couldn't care less – because reading
represents pain and failure. And the struggling
readers in your life may know just how she
feels.
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Funding Your Education
The Department's Federal student
aid programs are the largest source
of student aid in America. If you're
interested in financial aid for college
or a career school, you've come to
the right place. These programs
provide more than $100 billion a
year in grants, loans, and
work-study assistance. Read on to
find out more and to find out how to
apply for this aid.
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Creating A Reader
A home filled with
reading material is a
good way to help kids
become enthusiastic
(and proficient) readers.
What kind of books should you have? Ask your kids about
their interests. If they're too young to have a preference, your
local librarian can offer suggestions about age-appropriate
books.
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Back to School
Tips for Parents!
By establishing a daily routine and
promoting an engaging and healthy
environment, parents can enhance their
child's ability to be successful in school.
These tips are well-proven to be effective.
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"No Child Left Behind"
Parents Guide
No Child Left Behind puts the focus on
instruction and methods that have been
proven to work. It makes a billion-dollar
annual investment to ensure every
child learns to read by third grade. And
it provides the resources for reform and
unprecedented flexibility so states and
local communities can get the job done.
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Helping Your Child Series..
Preschooler & Become A Reader
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Raising a Reader
This guide will help you . . .
build your child’s early reading skills
at home recognize signs of trouble support
your child as she enters school understand
options for extra support recognize
when you need to go outside
the school for help
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Learning Checklist
The following checklists will give you some
ideas about helping your child learn as he
or she gets older and considers college.
Tips are also offered in specific areas in
which parents often have questions.
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Choosing A School
Get advice on how to find the
right school for you.
You've taken all the tests and
made the grades, and now it's
the moment of truth—deciding
where to go to school! With so
many schools to choose from, it
could take forever to find the
perfect one for you.
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Having Your Child
Tested for Disabilities
Children who struggle with reading
often need extra help. This help
usually comes from the school,
but some parents choose to
look outside of the school for professionals
who can assess, diagnose, tutor, or provide other education
services. This article provides information on how to find the
right person for your child.
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Evidence That Tutoring Works
When tutors work closely with teachers and
are provided with intensive, ongoing
training,they can make a difference in a
child's reading success. Learn what
researchers have
found about the elements of tutoring
programs that lead to increase
reading achievement.
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Preparing
Your Education
Find out what you need to
do to prepare for education
beyond high school. Education
beyond high school can give you
choices that may not otherwise be possible, open
doors to better paying positions, and give you the
opportunity to do the things you enjoy most. By
advancing your education, you can expand your
possibilities and increase your career choices.
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Recognize Early
Signs of Trouble
For almost forty percent of kids, learning to read is a
challenge. So in addition to talking, reading, and writing with
your child, families play another important role – being on the
lookout for early signs of possible trouble.
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What Parents Need to Know
(Learning the Importance of NCLB)
The NCLB law confirms that as a nation,
we will not accept a public school system
that educates only a portion of its children.
NCLB recognizes what truly makes a
difference in providing a quality education.
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Peer Pressure Brochure
“Peer pressure is one reason why
adolescents are at much greater risk than
adults for starting to smoke. It’s also why it’s
so important for parents to take an active and
repeated stand against smoking.”
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Applying for Admission
Applying to schools means
more than just filling out forms.
You need to understand each
school's requirements, gather information,
meet deadlines, and pay any
necessary fees for each submitted application.
You'll get a look at the school application process. It
may seem a little overwhelming, but once you have a
clear picture of everything that's involved, you can
determine what needs to be done. Getting organized will
help eliminate a lot of stress.
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Developing Early Literacy
Conventional reading and writing skills
that are developed in the years from
birth to age 5 have a clear and consistently strong relationship
with later conventional literacy skills. Additionally, six
variables representing early literacy skills or precursor literacy
skills had medium to large predictive relationships with later
measures of literacy development.
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Reading Rockets -
Family Guide
In this guide, you’ll find tips for
helping children get the most out of
reading, pointers on working with
schools and teachers, great ideas for
using your public library, computer
tips, valuable Web site addresses,
and more.
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While Attending School
Get the facts on financial aid,
how to maintain it, and what to
do when school's over...
If you are enrolled as a full-time or part-time student
and need to find out more about your educational
loans, you'll find all the information you need right here.
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Parental Involvement
This booklet contains more detailed
information about topics related to
opportunities offered by
No Child Left Behind: closing the
achievement gap, parental involvement,
school choice, tutoring and
financial aid for college.
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Helping Your Child Through
Early Adolescence
Somewhere in the middle grades the
motivation of some young adolescents for
learning takes a nose-dive. A young teen
may begin to grumble about assignments
and teachers, ask to drop out of a favorite
activity, complain that he's bored or show
signs of being lost in the educational shuffle
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Stimulus Jobs for the
New College Grad
For college seniors
and recent graduates
with technical
and liberal arts degrees,
the stimulus plan will
provide tremendous entry-level job opportunities. But
despite this encouraging news in a dismal job
market, many college students don’t know how to turn
these opportunities into actual jobs and
careers
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