1. What can Parents Do to Help Their Children Learn?

2. Be Proud of Your Home Language and Culture

3. Read to your child and with your child In English or your home language Reading gives the child new experiences and vocabulary

4. Talk with your child

5. What can we talk about? Talk about what you are doing at home – washing dishes, cleaning the house, cooking dinner, fixing the car, etc. Talk about things you find in the stores Talk about colors, shapes, positional words (in, on, next to, between, in front of) Retell a story Create a story Sing a song, poem or nursery rhyme

6. Visit the Public Library Audio Books Free children’s videos Children’s programs Free internet use Native language books for children – Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telegu, Urdu, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (12 Mile Branch)