ARI's Twelve Days of Literacy
A Gift For Families 2021
Our Mission
Tis' the season for giving!
Here Are Your 12 Days of Literacy Activities!
Day 1
Click on this link to access the trifold: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzK9y5-C5pvT25ETMSqvckfzBANjruAn/view?usp=sharing
Day 2
Day 3
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Day 4
A Summarize a Story Activity! Summarizing means you shorten what you read to the most important ideas. To summarize, focus on main ideas and important details while reading to help you generate a summary. If you are reading a shorter text, you can summarize after you finish reading the text. If you are reading a longer text, summarize after important sections of the text, such as chapters.
• A main idea is the most important message of what you are reading. There can be more than one main idea in a text.
• Important details include information that support the main ideas.You can access additional summarizing resources here:
1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Zlvsq4MSQrP7A0BZCAxi7j60VhcLFIj/view?usp=sharing
2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13izANeMyhtVEInaqtN2o6TjyTdNIdVdi/view?usp=sharing
Day 5
Day 6
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Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
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Day 10
This family resource includes three activities, organized with level one being easiest and level three being most difficult.
Level 1 Activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtjhYudfuxBl-MvXuWq0LnG62n-4iJjj/view?usp=sharing
Level 2 Activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t1mp_Gj_sCuexvpWFP0wLxyc0L_VHQB-/view?usp=sharing
Level 3 Activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nX043apJXvsRfKVFTaS92C8hWqRnbzOb/view?usp=sharing
Day 11
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C7Oz7Ly_cV6YOITiesPP1k0-wLTVWOYm/view?usp=sharing
Day 12
On the 12th Day of Literacy Activities, ARI gave to me: A Dinner Table Talk Activity! Engage in extended conversations at the dinner table. After you ask your child a question, follow up with more questions to encourage your child to provide details.
Examples:
• What was your favorite part of school today? Why?
• What was difficult for you today at school? How did you handle it?
• What are you thankful for today? Why?
• What would you love to invent?
• Which superhero power would you like to have? How would you use it?
You can find additional dinner conversation starters here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Vp_QP_DL_22oarnWeMpySh600QiyZ4H/view?usp=sharing
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Additional Literacy Resources
Learning to read begins at home through everyday parent-child interactions, long before children attend school. Your continued support of literacy development throughout elementary school positively affects your child's reading ability and their love of reading.
These Family Activities include easy-to-follow plans to help you support your child's foundational reading skills at home. Materials needed for each Family Activity, such as letter cards, are included. They begin with simpler activities and progress to more difficult ones. You may want to start with the first activity and move to the next when you notice that your child has a firm understanding of the content from that activity. We encourage you to select appropriate activities for your child, and feel free to set aside anything that seems too difficult. The goal is to engage your child in activities that promote learning in a positive environment, not to induce frustration. The activities should be completed with the child, frequently, with patience, and positive feedback. Using the activities at home will be a fun way to spend family time together!
The Family Literacy Videos show families engaging their children in the Family Activities just described. The key points about the videos help you know what to focus on for a specific activity. The twelve days of literacy activities all came from the following links.
Kindergarten Family Link: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/foundations/kindergarten_intro.asp
1st Grade Family Link: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/foundations/firstgrade_intro.asp
2nd Grade Family Link: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/foundations/secondgrade_intro.asp
3rd Grade Family Link: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/foundations/thirdgrade_intro.asp
Additional Resources
Resources - Alabama Partnership for Children
APC has compiled resources surrounding a FOCUS (Focus On Children Under Six) topic for all organizations that request the information for distribution in local communities. It is our hope that the FOCUS resources will provide more attention to birth-to-five topics statewide.
The following link contains recommended books, videos, articles, and websites that provide information relating to reading and writing, dyslexia, giftedness, ADHD, twice-exceptional, and movement.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more. As you watch the videos, we recommend that you pause the video to discuss what the story is about or respond to the actors' comments.
https://alabamafamilycentral.org/
Alabama Family Central has been a goal for several years from the creation of the Department of Children’s Affairs in 2001 through the priorities of the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet in recent years. As a single platform for families to access services and programs, its purpose is to help families easily navigate and find links to supports they need. State agency partners include Departments of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, Early Childhood Education, Education, Human Resources, Medicaid, Mental Health, Public Health, Rehabilitation Services/Early Intervention, with support from the Office of Information Technology.
The information included in this document is done from the perspective of improving LITERACY instruction for students and is only intended to outline support that directly relates to literacy instruction. Please use any resource links with discretion, as their position statements are their own and not necessarily representative of ARI and the ALSDE. Usage of any materials should be with adherence to rules and regulations of the Alabama State Department of Education.