Empowering Parents with Educational  Resources 

NCTE

This is not a fancy looking site, but you will find some great information on what you can do at home as well as how you can provide support for your child's school-writing program.  Additionally, you will find many other school related links.

Reading Rockets - Link 1

This advice for parents details what they can do to help preschoolers become readers, and help school-age children improve their reading skills.

LD Online

"Writing was definitely the worst task of all. It was just way too hard to remember all the things he needed, like periods and capital letters. And then, it was almost impossible to think about how to spell words when he was busy trying to think about the story."

Read Write Think

This site offers a great tip for helping your child write stories using a story board.

Super Duper Handy Handouts

Super Duper Handy Handouts is a site that provides researched based information in the form of PDF's.  This PDF will give you some great suggestions on fun things you can do at home to support and monitor your child's writing.  There are also additional writing resource links at the bottom of the page.

Reading Rockets - Link 2

Get to know the four "anchors" of the Common Core writing standards and simple things you can do at home to help your child build skills in all of these areas.