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Read at Home Resources

Read at Home Letter

Recommended Reading: Sample Titles by Grade in the B.E.S.T. Standards Document

New Worlds Reading Initiative

Read at Home Resources for Families from the Florida DOE

Read at Home Resources for Families from the Florida DOE-Spanish

Parent Guides for the B.E.S.T. Standards

Reading Scholarships for some students in grades K-5

Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home K-3 Activities and Videos from IES REL

Third Grade Guidance

Understanding Florida Statewide Assessment Reports for Families 2025

Link to Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) Family Portal

Read-at-Home Plan Resources

Overview of Assessment Types (PDF)

FAST Assessment Portal

Florida Standards Alternate Assessment

Exceptional Student Education Supports for Parent Involvement

Evaluating and Identifying a Student for Exceptional Student Education

Specific Learning Disabilities

Looking for Ways to Motivate Your Reader this Summer?

Try these:

Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program

Books A Million Summer Reading Adventure

Chuck E. Cheese Parent Resource Center

Pizza Hut Book It Program

Summer Reading Activities

West Florida Public Library Digital Content

MyWFPL Events

Find out more here.

Resources for Kindergarten and First Grade Families

These links will take you outside of this website:

Kindergarten Read at Home Plan for 4th 9 Weeks

Helping Students to Develop a Pencil Grip

Letter Cards from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Blending and Segmenting Lessons from Reading Rockets

Teaching the sounds of the alphabet from the University of Florida Literacy Institute

How to Teach Sound by Sound Blending

Connecting Sounds with Letters how to help your child video from understood.org

H is for Home Supporting Foundational Reading Skills-article by Dr. Nell K. Duke

"Heart" Words Explained-University of Florida Literacy Institute Tutorial

Reading Aloud to Children.pdf

Letter-Sound Dominoes activity from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Video demonstrating how to play the Letter-Sound Domino game

Fast words activity from the Florida Center for Reading Research

The Snowy Day resources-author website.

Story Online--for families to listen together: books read by actors and actresses.

Fluency for Families

Fluency involves reading at good pace and with expression. Reading with expression shows that we are making sense out of what we are reading and we are phrasing it in such a way that others can listen and understand too. Fluency begins with reading out loud, but eventually transfers to silent reading. One study (Rasinski, et, al, 2016) showed that students with better fluency rates scored higher on the ACT, one test used for college entrance.

Reading Aloud to Build Fluency.pdf

Fluency record sheet.pdf

Vocabulary Flash Card Games to Play at Home.pdf

Build Vocabulary Through Talking

Talking is Teaching from Strive for Five

Story Bag activity from Strive for Five

101 Conversation topics for kids (external site)

Multi-sensory activities for families

Make letters out of playdough and say the sounds as you do.

Write words in the air or sand as you say or spell them.

Play charades and "pictionary" with vocabulary words.

Clap out syllables.

More Resources for Families

Baby Navigator-What Every Parent Needs to Know Florida State University First Words Project Click here.

FLORIDA STUDENTS - EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING

Click on this link for the FloridaStudents.org website, your source for Florida Standards Student Tutorials and resources that will help student learning in language arts, mathematics, science, and civics.

Click here to go to the site where you can find tips, activities, and reading suggestions for families.

AFT Resources for Parents

Resources for Parents

Find tip sheets for K-8 in English and Spanish

RESOURCES FOR GRADES 2 AND 3

These links will take you outside this site:

For Florida Students Tutorials, students log in with Escambia School District password

Topics and Details 2nd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Supporting Specific Points in Text 2nd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Central Idea explained

Exploring the Main Idea 3rd grade Tutorial Florida Students website

Character Traits Tutorial on Florida CPalms.org

Roots and Affixes for Building Vocabulary from the Florida Center for Reading Research

Rhyme Scheme tutorial

Types of Poetry for third graders to identify

Figurative Language definitions

Author's Claim and Evidence explained

RESOURCES FOR GRADES 4 AND 5

These links will take viewers outside of this site:

For Florida Students Tutorials, log in with Escambia School District password

Digging Deeper: Inferences Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

Answering Research Questions Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

Integrating Information Tutorial from the Florida Students.org website

See more Tutorials from the Florida Students.org website

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