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Help Your Child to Read and Write is a program for parents with children of elementary school age. The program helps parents build their children's confidence and supports reading and writing in the home.
- Parents meet with a workshop leader once a week for 6-8 weeks
- Parents look at their children's strengths and abilities
- They use good quality children's books to practice strategies for making meaning from print
- They review writing skills, comprehension strategies and study skills
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- Parents’ and children’s confidence levels increase significantly
- Parents report that working with their children is more relaxed and productive
- Everyone in the home reads more
- Parents and the school become a team in their children’s learning
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Help Your Child to Read and Write is funded by:
Edmonton Oiler Community Foundation
Edmonton Journal, Raise-a-Reader
TELUS
For more information on this program, please call (780) 421-7323 or e-mail info@famlit.ca
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What parents have said about the program:
“Awesome, wonderful. The best thing I have done for my son. The hassle has gone and we work together to solve problems now – and my reading is improving too!”
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