Introduction
The Regional Educational Laboratory program, or REL, is a network of 10 educators and policymakers partnerships designed to develop resources and complete research with the goal of improving academic outcomes for students. The Indiana Department of Education has reviewed and compiled family resources from REL designed to support families as they manage in-person, hybrid, or remote learning.
Evidence-Based Resources
- Family Tip Sheet for Virtual Learning
- Exploring Teachable Moment
- Supporting Positive At-Home Behaviors Among Elementary Students
- Supporting Young Children’s Learning and Well-Being at Home
- Career Readiness: Preparing the Student
- Links and Ideas to support your child’s emotional Needs
- Why Reading to Your Kids in Your Home Language Will Help Them Become Better Readers
- Stuck At Home Science
Mathematics
Two strategies to teach your student to love math:
Compare different units of measurement and measuring tools: Make your own Playdough
Use of measuring tools to Make Comparisons: How Many of Me?
Model Problem-Solving
Activity: Finding Math Around you
Use Math Language
Activity: Math Throughout the Day
Teaching Number and Operation:
Recognizing small numbers (First skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Counting items (Next skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Comparing Numbers (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Identifying numeral (Fourth Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Problem Solving with numbers (final skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Geometry, Patterns, and Measurement:
Recognizing, Naming, and comparing shapes (First skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns and Fill in the Shapes
Identifying and Creating Patterns (Second skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns
Measuring (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: How Many of Me? And Making Playdough
Collecting and Organizing Information (Final Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Teaching Number and Operation:
Recognizing small numbers (First skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Counting items (Next skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Comparing Numbers (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Identifying numeral (Fourth Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Problem Solving with numbers (final skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Geometry, Patterns, and Measurement:
Recognizing, Naming, and comparing shapes (First skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns and Fill in the Shapes
Identifying and Creating Patterns (Second skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns
Measuring (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: How Many of Me? And Making Playdough
Collecting and Organizing Information (Final Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Teaching Number and Operation:
Recognizing small numbers (First skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Counting items (Next skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Comparing Numbers (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Identifying numeral (Fourth Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Problem Solving with numbers (final skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Geometry, Patterns, and Measurement:
Recognizing, Naming, and comparing shapes (First skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns and Fill in the Shapes
Identifying and Creating Patterns (Second skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns
Measuring (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: How Many of Me? And Making Playdough
Collecting and Organizing Information (Final Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Teaching Number and Operation
Recognizing small numbers (First skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Counting items (Next skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Comparing Numbers (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Identifying numeral (Fourth Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Problem Solving with numbers (final skill to develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
Geometry, Patterns, and Measurement:
Recognizing, Naming, and comparing shapes (First skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns and Fill in the Shapes
Identifying and Creating Patterns (Second skill to develop)
Activities: Everyday Math: Shapes and Patterns
Measuring (Third Skill to Develop)
Activities: How Many of Me? And Making Playdough
Collecting and Organizing Information (Final Skill to Develop)
Activities: Coming Soon!
English Language Arts
Developing Language: Talking While you Read
Video examples: Talking While you are Reading
Activities: Talking While you Read and Talking While You Read Bookmark
Developing Language: Supporting Language and Vocabulary Development:
Video Examples: Cooking Conversation Dinner Table Talk
Activities:Cooking Conversations and Grocery Shop Talk
Linking Sounds to Letters-Syllables:
Video Examples: Syllable Sort
Activity: Clap Word Parts
Books To Use: Coming Soon!
Linking Sounds to Letters- Rhyme
Video Examples: Rhyme Time
Activities: Nursery Rhyme Time and Rhyme Time
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Linking Sounds to Letters: Individual Sounds:
Video Example: Add a Sound to Make a New Word
Activity: Add a Sound to make a new word
Linking Sounds to Letters: Letter Names and Letter Sounds
Video Examples: Letter Naming Using A Letter Ark, Short Vowel Practice
Activities: Letter Name Practice and Short Vowel Practice and Letter Sound Writing
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Linking Sounds to Letters- Linking Sounds to Letters
Video Examples: Step up to Spelling Words Video 2
Activity: Step up to Writing Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Blending Words
Video Examples: Letter Puzzles
Activities: Blending letter Puzzles 1 2 3
Blending Letters Recognizing and Reading Words- Word Families
Video Examples: Word Family Fun
Activity: Word Family Fun
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Blending Letters Recognizing and Reading Words- Decodable Words
Video Examples: Let’s Read Words and Sentences
Activity: Read Words and Sentences
Blending Letters Recognizing and Reading Words- Challenging and Important Words
Video Example: Important Words
Activity: Read to you Read to Me Bookmark
Book to Use: Coming Soon!
Reading for Understanding- Oral Reading Practice
Video Example: Echo Reading Reading Together
Activity: Reading Out Loud Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Developing Language- Talking While You Read
Video Example: Talking While You Read
Activities: Talking While You Read Trifold and Talking While You Read Bookmark
Developing Language- Supporting Oral Language and Vocabulary Development
Video Example: Language Development in the Kitchen
Activities: Talking and Writing in the Kitchen and Grocery Shop Talk
Linking Sounds to Letters- Onset-Rime
Video Example: Onset and Rime Picture Cards
Activity: Onset and Rime Picture Cards
Linking Sounds to Letters- Individual Sounds
Video Example: Say and Slide Individual Sounds in Words
Activity: Say and Slide Individual Sounds in Words
Linking Sounds to Letters- Sounds in Words: First Sound, Middle Sound, Last Sound
Video Example: First Sound? Middle Sound? Last Sound?
Activity: First Sound? Middle Sound? Last Sound?
Linking Sounds to Letters- Letter Names and Letter sounds
Video Example: Consonant and Short Vowel Sound Practice Using Junk Mail
Activity: Consonant and Short Vowel Sound Practice
Books To Use: Coming Soon!
Linking Sounds to Letters- Sounds with Tow or More Letters
Video Example: Letter-Sound Practice and Building Words
Activity: Letter-Sound Practice Building Words
Linking Sounds to Letters- Silent e Rule
Video Example: Spelling and Reading Words with Silent e
Activity: Building Words With Silent e
Linking Sounds to Letters- Change a Letter, Change the Word
Video Example: Change a Letter, Change the Word
Activity: Change a Letter Change the Word
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Blending Words
Video Example: Word Puzzles
Activities: Word Puzzles 1 Words Puzzles 2 Word Puzzles 3
Books To Use: Coming Soon
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Sound-Spelling Pattern Word Sort
Video Example: Sound-Spelling Pattern Word Sort
Activities: Sound-Spelling Pattern Word Sort: ch, sh, th and Sound-Spelling Pattern Word Sort: ar, er, ir, or, ur
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Common Word Parts
Video Example: Prefix, Base Word, Suffix
Activity: Prefix, Base Word, Suffix
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Reading Words
Video Example: Let’s Read Words and Sentences
Activity: Let’s Read Words and Sentences
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- High-Frequency Words
Video Example: Memory Using High-Frequency Words
Activity: Memory Using High-Frequency Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Challenging and Important Words
Video Example: Challenging and Important Words
Activity: Challenging and Important Words Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Reading for Understanding- Accurate and Efficient Word Identification
Video Examples: When I Read to You and When You Read to Me
Activity: When I read to You, When You Read to Me Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Reading for Understanding- Recognizing Misread Words and Correcting Errors
Video Example: Does That Make Sense?
Activity: Does That Make Sense?
Books To Use: Coming Soon!
Reading for Understanding- Oral Reading Practice
Video Examples: Echo Reading and Reading Together
Activity: Practice Reading Out Loud Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Developmental Language- Talking while you read informational text
Video Example:Talking While You Read
Activities: Tri-fold 1 Tri-fold 2 Tri-fold 3
Books to Share: Coming Soon!
Developmental Language- Talking while you read Stories
Video Example: Talking While You Read
Activity: Reading Bookmark
Developmental Language- Supporting Oral Language and vocabulary Development
Video Example: Supporting Oral Language and Vocabulary Development
Activities:Talking and Writing in the Kitchen and Grocery Shop Talk
Linking Sounds To Letters: Onset-Rime
Video Example: Onset-Rime
Activity: Onset and Rime Picture Cards
Linking Sounds To Letters: Individual Sounds
Video Example: Individual Sounds
Activity: Say and Slide Individual Sounds in Words
Linking Sounds To Letters: First Sound, Middle Sound, Last Sound
Video Example: First, middle, or last sound
Activity: First Sound? Middle Sound? Last Sound?
Linking Sounds To Letters: Letter Names and Letter Sounds
Video Example: Letter Names and Letter Sounds
Activity: Consonant and Short Vowel Sound Practice
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Linking Sounds To Letters: Sounds with Two or More Letters
Video Examples: Sounds with Two or More Letters
Activity: Letter-Sound Practice Building Words
Linking Sounds to Letters: Silent e Rule
Video Example: Silent e Rule
Activity: Building Words with Silent e
Linking Sounds to Letters: Changing Letters in Words to Spell New Words
Video Example: Changing Letters in Words to Spell New Words
Activity: Change the Letter, Change the Word
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Blending to Read Words
Video Examples: Fun with Consonant Blends and Digraphs and r-Controlled Vowel
Activities: Short and Long Vowel Sort Fun with Consonant Blends and Digraphs r-Controlled Vowel Sort
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Sound Spelling Patterns
Video Examples:
- Floss Spelling Rule
- Long Vowel Spelling Patterns
- Vowel Diphthong Bingo
- Double the Consonant and Add -ing or -ed Spelling Rule
- Vowel Team Syllable Pattern Practice
- Map and Swoop Vowel-r Syllable Pattern
Activities:
- Floss Spelling Rule
- Long Vowel Spelling Patterns
- Vowel Diphthong Bingo
- Double the Consonant Spelling Rule
- Change the y to i Spelling Rule
- Map and Swoop Open Syllables and Closed Syllables
- Open and Closed Syllable Sort
- Map and Swoop VCe Syllable Pattern
- Map and Swoop Vowel Team Syllable Pattern
- Vowel Team Syllable Pattern Practice
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Common Word Parts
Video Examples: Base Words and Inflectional Endings Contraction Bingo Prefix or Suffix?
Activities: Base Words and Inflectional Endings Contraction Bingo Prefix or Suffix?
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Reading Words
Video Example: Reading Words
Activity: Let's Read! Text 1 Let's Read! Text 2 Let's Read! Text 3
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- High-Frequency Words
Video Example: High-Frequency Words
Activity: Read and Spell High-Frequency Words
Books To Use: Coming Soon!
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Challenging and Important Words
Video Example: Challenging and Important Words
Activity: Challenging and Important Words Bookmark
Books To Share: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding- Accurate and Efficient Word Identification
Video Example: Accurate and Efficient Word Identification
Books To Share: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding- Recognizing Misread Words and Correcting Errors
Video Example: Recognizing Misread Words and Correcting Errors
Activity: Does That Make Sense?
Books To Share: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding-Oral Reading Practice
Video Examples: Echo Reading (Danny and the Dinosaur and the New Puppy) and Reading Together (Danny and the Dinosaur and the New Puppy)
Activity: Practice Reading Out Loud Bookmark
Books To Share: Coming Soon!
Developing Language- Talking While You Read
Video Example: Talking While You Read
Activities: Summarize a Story and Summarize a Story
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Developing Language- Supporting Oral Language and Vocabulary Development
Video Example: See previous grades for examples
Activities: Talking and Writing in the Kitchen Chatting about Chores Synonyms and Antonyms Incredible Inferences
Linking Letters To Sounds: See kindergarten, first, and second grade for more information on these developmental skills
Blending letters, Recognizing and Reading Words
Blending letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Blending to Read Words
Video Example: See kindergarten, first, and second grade for more information on these developmental skills
Activities: Map-A-Word How Many Words Building Words with r-Controlled Vowels
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Sound-Spelling Pattern Examples
Activities: Silent Letters Open and Closed Syllable Sort Syllable Sort Map and Swoop Consonant-le Syllable Pattern
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Common Word Parts
Activities: Word Part Detective Adding Prefixes and Suffixes to Build Words Building Words With Grammatical Endings Building Words from Root Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Reading Words
Activities: Let’s Read! Text 1 Text 2
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- High-Frequency Words
Activity: Read and Spell High-Frequency Words
Blending Letters, Recognizing and Reading Words- Challenging and Important Words
Activity: Challenging and Import Words Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding- Accurate and Efficient Word Identification
Activity: When I Read to You, When You Read to me Bookmark
Book to Use: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding- Recognizing Misread Words and Correcting Errors
Activity: Monitoring for Understanding Bookmark
Books to Share: Coming Soon!
Reading For Understanding- Oral Reading Practice
Consider alternated reading or reading together
Activity: Practice Reading Out Load Bookmark
Books to Use: Coming Soon!
Additional IDOE Family Resources |
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Math Parent Resources | 08/31/2020 | |||
ELA Parent Resources | 08/31/2020 | |||
Early Learning Parent Resources | 08/31/2020 | |||
09/02/2020 |