Web Sites to Watch

Get Ready to Read! This fantastic Web site has a wealth of resources including games and activities, screening tools, questions parents ask about their child's literacy development, information about how to get your child ready to read, and more! A colorful, engaging tool, Get Ready to Read is an excellent resource for parents. Learn more.

Ready, Set, Read!
Activities, tips and tricks about how to achieve reading success with your child. From the King County Library System. Learn more.

Getting School Ready (Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Cambodian, Russian, Somali and Vietnamese).
Researchers have found that children who are not ready for kindergarten have to struggle to catch up. Some have a hard time catching up at all. Getting School Ready is a project in King County to:

• Help parents, caregivers, early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers support children to get ready for school, and
• Help schools be ready to meet the needs of their students.
• Access Getting School Ready here.
  

Community Problem Solving: Strategy for a Changing World
Information to support your learning and effectiveness, including useful tools for problem-solving in your community or field are found in abundance on this site. Resources include strategy tools, program tools and learning community. Find out more about this exciting resource here.

The Institute for Family Friendly Schools
When families are involved in the educational lives of their children, student achievement improves. The Institute for Family Friendly Schools understands and promotes school-family partnerships and provides research, workshops and other family engagement programs. See what this site has to offer here.

(New Addition) Zero to Three
During the first three years of life, your child will develop crucial intellectual, emotional and social abilities, learn to give and accept love, to be confident and secure, to show empathy, to be curious and persistent—all abilities that will enable your child to learn, relate well to others and lead a happy and productive life. This is an exciting period in your child's life! Explore the Zero to Three Web site for more information.