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Georgia Standards of Excellence
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Learning to Read vs. Reading to Learn
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GKIDS Readiness Check Parent Website
Parent Brochure
The Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS) is a year-long, performance-based assessment aligned to the state mandated content standards. The goal of the assessment program is to provide teachers with information about the level of instructional support needed by individual students entering kindergarten and first grade.
GKIDS 2.0
GKIDS 2.0 is based on big ideas and learning progressions. A big idea describes kindergarten skills that are most important for success in first grade.
Keenville
Parent Guide Parent Video
A Georgia Game-Based Assessment Initiative
DIBELS 8
How to Access Home Connect
Home Connect
Support foundational reading skills with Home Connect from Amplify/DIBELS 8. Home Connect provides short support lessons that will help your scholar be a better reader.
iReady
iReady Parent Center
(Translated in English, Spanish, Porteguese, Haitian Creole)
The i-Ready Family Center is the place to learn how you can support and encourage your student’s success with i-Ready.
Using iReady Assessment At Home
MAP Assessment
Family Toolkit
The NWEA MAP Family Toolkit provides information to help parents get the facts about MAP and how the test supports student’s academic growth.
Assessment Resources
GMAS Preparation
GMAS Parent Resource Guides
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
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The Book Nook with Ms. Brown
Discover a multitude of read alouds in the Book Nook. Make sure to present the Google slides to launch the Book Nook. Each book will unlock a read aloud once clicked. Read alouds promotes a love of reading; it has multiple uses at every age and in every content area.
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Read alouds also create a bridge to more complex texts.
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Develops stronger vocabulary
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Builds connections between the spoken and written word
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Provides enjoyment
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Increases attention span
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Strengthens cognition
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Provides a safe way of exploring strong emotions
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Promotes bonding
Reading Skills for Foundational Grades 1st-2nd
These documents provide all of the reading skills that new 1st and 2nd grade students learned last year. This can be used as a review for students.
What I Learned In Kindergarten
What I Learned in First Grade
Reading, Learning, and Fun for K-5
GA Home Classroom
As part of the public media mission to ensure all kids have access to continued free educational resources at home, GPB, in partnership with Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), is offering broadcast programming and accompanying digital resources that adhere to Georgia’s state standards.
Websites for ebooks
GetEpic
Readworks
Newsela
Science News for Students
Time for Kids
Clayton READS: A One Stop Reading Shop
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International Literacy Day
September 8, 2020
Annually around the world to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more literate and sustainable society.
Read for the Record
October 29, 2020
African American Read In
February 5, 2021
Celebrating Black History Through the Love of Literacy
Build Your Stack Children’s Book List
African American Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Poem and Poetry Books
Read Across America
March 2, 2021
Celebrating Diversity, Inclusion, Women’s History, and Fine Arts
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Getting Plugged Into Kindergarten
This video provides information to support your scholars transition to kindergarten. Welcome to BIG school!
Virtual Phonics Lessons
Five Minutes of Phonics
Blending Sounds
Silent E Lesson
Heart Word Magic Videos
(words to know by heart)
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What Does That Mean: Glossary of Reading Terms
Word Bingo Card Creator
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Guardians Guide to Google Tools
Take a tour of how Google Tools and Chromebook will support your student this school year.
Parent Guides Grades K-5th
Mclass Home Connect
https://mclass.amplify.com/homeconnect/
Free website
 Starfall https://www.starfall.com/h/
Free and low-cost experiences whereby children can successfully learn through exploration. On the Starfall website and in Starfall classrooms, children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play.
 Professor Garfield
The mission of the Professor Garfied app and website is to be a world leader in the direct, free delivery of innovative and motivational digital learning content with a primary emphasis on children's literacy and creative expression by creating fun and educationally sound interactive activities and games where kids like to play -- on the Internet -- supplemented with standards-based resources for teachers, parents and mentors.
http://rewordify.com/
Text-leveling tool gives every student access to complex readings. Rewordify is a great tool to help differentiate reading and build vocabulary for every student.
 ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/
Looking for engaging ways to introduce your child to reading or to encourage your teen to write? Need some age-appropriate book suggestions or rainy day activities? The materials here are your answer—all of them created by experts to be fun, educational, and easy to use outside of school.
 Common Lit https://www.commonlit.org/en/parents_and_guardians
Browse a free collection of reading passages in all literary and non fiction genres grades 3-12. Your child can read the text, answer questions, and access support tools.
Guardian's Guide to Tools for Children with Disabilities during Distance Learning
Chromebooks have accessibility features built in to help each child learn in a way that works for them. Here are some tips for you to get familiar with the tools that are available to make Chromebooks, G Suite, and other Google tools more accessible and useful.
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OG Card Deck Reader
 Free app in Apple Store or Google Play. Provides letter sounds, videos modeling the appropriate mouth structure for each letter sound, and spelling practice to ensure that students
Learn with Homer
A learn-to-read app incorporates drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises. Encourages kids to think critically about what they've read or listened to through answering questions.
Light Sail
An e-reading literacy platform to support independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out texts from their schools' digital libraries and read the books directly on their devices. As students progress through a book, questions appear to gauge their comprehension. Kids can earn badges and a Lexile measure.
Book Creator
Create and publish digital books and multimedia with this easy-to-use tool.
Shadow Puppet Edu
Slideshow creation tool allows students to create video presentations using images from the built-in library, and adding their own narration and text. Can be used across content areas.
TeleStory
Video creation tool that gives kids a background scene, face-detecting costumes, cue cards, and special effects to create their own themed TV shows. Videos can be shared or published on TeleStory's moderated video channel, ToonTube.
Toontastic
Build stories featuring 3D characters, while learning about the basics of storytelling — setting, conflict, challenge, climax, and resolution.
Epic
A digital library for kids, where kids can explore their interests and learn with instant, unlimited access to 40,000 high-quality ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes for kids 12 and under.
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