Including Parents in the Teaching and Learning Process

Parents and teachers each play an important role in the teaching and learning process for students. Together, you can help instill a desire in children to learn and keep them interested in education as they grow.

Learning has many parts and many participants. Assessment plays a crucial role. Testing shows teachers and parents what students know and can do. Test results provide crucial information to guide and focus teaching strategies. And instruction addresses areas for student improvement to ensure academic progress. Together these steps complete a circle of the teaching and learning process-assess, evaluate, and instruct. This process continues throughout the school year and from year-to-year.

	Adventures in Literacy: Classroom and Home Activities for Early Readers--Help connect assessment to learning with these delightfully illustrated workbooks for children, Pre-K to Grade 3. These resources contain over 200 activities for teachers and parents to help young readers build skills in the four basic areas of reading development: phonemic awareness, phonics, reading and oral expression (including comprehension, accuracy, vocabulary and fluency), and listening and writing. The inexpensive series is available as four separate books, one for each learning strand, or compiled into one convenient book.
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	A Home Guide to Understanding Tests--This convenient booklet (available in English and Spanish) is written especially for parents and guardians. It describes the different types of tests and helps parents prepare a child for testing. Find out ways that test information can help students grow and learn.
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	Understanding Early Learning--This brochure provides a detailed description of CTB's solutions to meeting the goals of the Reading First and Early Reading First initiatives of the No Child Left Behind Act. A child's early learning years are a critical period in the development of important foundational learning skills. Current research substantiates that the earlier a child receives positive learning experiences, the more likely that child is to succeed academically.
	Understanding Early Learning
	Pre-K Standards for Learning and Teaching--The Standards offer a known starting point of early achievement from which educators can make critical instructional and assessment decisions. The Guidelines are designed to help states, districts, schools, and childcare centers formulate new policies, standards, and curricula for the growing number of children that participate in a Pre-K program.
	Pre-K Standards for Learning and Teaching
	TerraNova® Interactive Reports Online--TerraNova reports translate test results into useful information for teachers, parents, students, administrators, and public officials. When CTB began developing TerraNova, The Second Edition, we talked to parents, teachers, and administrators, who identified one common need: an information system that goes beyond the numbers to help improve student learning. TerraNova test reports fill this need. Take an interactive look at a few sample reports from TerraNova, The Second Edition, and see how they relate directly to instructional objectives and student achievement. Examine sample test items, learn how they are scored, and review related classroom activities.
	TerraNova Interactive Reports Online