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THE PARENT SESSIONS
Season 1

Traditional Library

The Parent Sessions are being led by a powerful, educated and influential group of women who were involved in the Reading First initiative in the state of California, after the National Reading Panel.  In these sessions, parents will be given information they need to know in order to help educate their own children via the science of reading.  If you are a parent, and even if you are an educator who would like to learn more, this will be an amazing opportunity to dive into the science of reading instruction.

Questions on the content?

At The Dyslexia Initiative we are here to serve our community.  Attached is a survey form to help us know if you have specific

questions that we can answer in our sessions, or directly with you.  If you have questions, here is the place to submit them.

https://forms.gle/woEEJc6j3X6bMKNU9

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Note on the below links:

All links below are plug ins from our YouTube channel.  If you experience any glitches please launch YouTube, link below in the footer of the page, and watch the videos there.  Additionally, you can double click the link to open directly in YouTube.

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Helpful Tools

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Attached is a PDF entitled General American English Phonemes and Spellings.  This is a printable document that lists Consonant* Continuous Sounds & Spellings, Vowel Sounds & Spellings and Consonant Stop Sounds & Spellings.  This is an incredible reference which we hope you will find helpful.

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Concepts of Print Bookmark

Colorful

Concepts of Print Bookmark

Blue & White

Can be printed on black and white printer

Attached are printable bookmarks on the concepts of print.  Please feel free to print them off and use them in your favorite books.

General American English Phonemes and Spellings

Session 1

Slide Deck For Session 1

 

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Session 2

Slide Deck For Session 2

 

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Letter Writing Directions

 

Session 3

Slide Deck For Session 3

 

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Session 4

Slide Deck For Session 4

 

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Alphabet Song

with Clapping Pauses

Letter Naming Dialog

with Capital Letters

Letter Naming Dialog

with Lower Case Letters

Session 5

Slide Deck For Session 5

 

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  • Pre-Writing Skills Worksheets: pre-writing skills worksheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDF Includes the following:

How to Hold A Pencil

Pre-Writing Strokes and Shapes

Develop Fine Motor Skills

Session 6

Slide Deck For Session 6

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  • Learning and Development of Language: The First 5 Years of Life (Content is applicable no matter your home language or, should you have one, your nanny’s or caretaker’s home language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49uLLCUlEk

 

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Session 7

Slide Deck For Session 7

 

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Session 8

Slide Deck For Session 8

 

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Session 9

Slide Deck For Session 9

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Session 10

Slide Deck For Session 10

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Phonemic Awareness Skills Chart

Session 11

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Tutoring Models

Session 12

Slide Deck For Session 12

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