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Fox, Helen – Learning, 1988
Board games parents may use to improve their child's basic skills in reading, math, spelling, and reasoning are reviewed. The article describes eight games along with suggestions about how each game may be used to improve skills. Suggested ages and manufacturer of each game are listed. (JL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Childrens Games, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills
Peer reviewedHauser, Jill Frankel – PTA Today, 1990
Describes how parents can be most effective in teaching their children to value the written language as communication and enjoy reading. Parents are encouraged to keep reading meaningful and make it fun, optimize the child's environment, and maximize success to develop the child's self-concept as a reader. (SM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Communication Skills, Family Environment
Peer reviewedMiller, D. D. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1997
A mother of an adolescent daughter with blindness and learning disabilities focuses on how she helped her daughter improve reading and writing skills by finding a meaningful purpose for those skills in daily life. This article discusses early signs of learning problems, the learning environment, talking books, books in braille, technology,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Blindness, Braille
Download full textCentre County Vocational-Technical School, Pleasant Gap, PA. CIU 10 Bi-County Development Center for Adults. – 1986
The basic skills activities in this booklet are intended for use by adult basic education (ABE) students who are parents or who otherwise interact with children. The lessons are constructed to be used first by ABE teachers or counselors with a parent and then by the parent and child at home. The lessons introduce concepts that children can learn…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Language Skills
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. Michigan Educational Assessment Program. – 1984
Following an introductory page providing guidelines for use, this calendar describes a daily learning activity for children and parents to engage in together for about 10 minutes. Parents are urged to follow the daily activities as a means of supporting their children and their children's teachers. It is suggested that a parent's work with his or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1979
Developed for K-3 teachers to send home with their students, this collection of learning activities and games is offered to help reinforce students' language arts and mathematics skills and to enhance parental involvement. Suggestions to the teacher include sending home only those pages containing activities for skills currently being studied and…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Educational Games, Elementary School Mathematics
Boehnlein, Mary Maher, Comp.; Hager, Beth Haines, Comp. – 1985
Intended for parents and reading teachers, this annotated bibliography contains materials concerning parent involvement with reading. The bibliography provides suggestions and information for professionals and parents concerning (1) home activities that assist the development of general school and reading readiness, (2) support of the school…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity
Field, Cynthia E. – InCider, 1987
Discusses some of the possibilities for using Apple II computers to teach young children basic skills and enhance their computer literacy. Reviews 14 pieces of software from seven different publishers. Provides the name and address of the publisher, along with a description of each program and its capabilities. (TW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Vocabulary, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Compensatory/Bilingual Education. – 1984
This informational booklet outlines the services available to New Jersey elementary school children in the area of basic skills development and offers suggestions as to how parents can support their child's educational development. The first part of the guide outlines the content, admissions criteria, and funding sources of New Jersey's Basic…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Strategies
