Resources
Explore research-based resources designed to help you support your child’s growth and development. Discover easy‑to‑use tools to track your child’s progress and see how they’re growing across key learning areas.
Explore & Support Development
Making Books Come Alive
In this video you will learn how to make books come alive for your child. You will go over some tips on how to make reading fun and how to help your child learn more while reading! This will help your child develop a love for reading and get him ready for kindergarten.
Building Trust and Cooperation
In this video, we discuss strategies you can use to build trust and cooperation with your child. We highlight the importance of understanding your child’s signals and responding to them warmly and sensitively.
Building World Knowledge
This video highlights the importance of building content knowledge around STEM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We discuss different strategies to use with your child and provide examples of activities to do with your child to build content knowledge.
Talking Is Teaching
In this video you will learn about the importance of talking to your child and how to keep the conversation going. We discuss strategies you can use that will make having extended conversations with your child easy and enjoyable.
Playing with Letters and Sounds
Have fun learning letters with your child by naming and finding letters in his or her name and paying attention to words in the environment.
Writing Together
Learn how to draw and write with your child during everyday activities.
Building Your Child’s Vocabulary
Learn how to build your child’s word knowledge by using big and sophisticated words in everyday conversations and by defining words in ways your child can understand.
Talking Is Teaching
Learn how to enhance your child’s language by tuning in and talking, and by keeping the conversation going between you and your child.
Making Books Come Alive
Make books come alive by asking questions and expanding on your child’s ideas!
Math Rules!
Help your child develop his or her math skills by counting, grouping, and comparing objects and items during everyday routines and activities.
Picture This!
Encourage your child to act like a scientist or engineer by explaining parts of objects and how systems work using close observations or models.
Dream It, Build It!
Help your child become a young engineer by tinkering with objects and coming up with creative solutions to problems at home and in their world.
Show What You Know
Help your child build tools for doing science by thinking about how and why things work and gathering information as you explore.
Let’s Figure It Out
Expose your child to science everywhere you go by planning simple investigations and making predictions about what will happen.
What’s the Big Idea?
Unlock your child’s curiosity about the world by asking questions and teaching big words.
Resources for Children with Learning and Developmental Differences
The Children’s Learning Institute provides this free collection of high-quality online resources related to common developmental concerns, such as autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Circle Decodables
This free e-book library supports early reading development for children in grades K–2. Books are grouped in sets that begin with simple sounds and move into more complex phonics patterns. Choose books based on what your child is learning at school to help build their skills and confidence.
Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners
Playing with words and sounds helps your child start to understand how reading works. Reading Rockets shares fun ideas to help your kindergartener grow into a happy, confident reader. Tips are available in multiple languages.
Selecting a Child Care Program
While on a virtual or in-person tour, use these checklists from Child Care Aware® of America to help you find safe and high-quality child care.
Track & Understand Progress
Understanding Your Child’s Assessment Results
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the CLI Engage Student Report for Parents that will help families interpret their children’s results.
Family-Friendly Descriptions of Assessment Measures
These resources describe CLI Engage assessment measures and why they are important for later school success.
Tips for Parents: Parent-Teacher Conferences
Learn more from ¡Colorín colorado! about parent-teacher conferences and how you can use the meeting to ask questions that will help your child.
