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UPDATED DAILY! Distance Learning for the days and weeks to come Here are some great sights for parents to use with their kids during social distancing. Many of these I have used in my own classrooms with my students with reading abilities from grades 1-12.  Wideopenschool.org is a great site to help parents who are home-schooling. They have a great weekly parent info booklet too, with goal setting, etc. Teaching kids news is a great site for non fiction for kids. Current events and kid-level explanations of current events are made readily available on this free site for parents and educators.  If you want to reduce your screen time, audio-book service Audible has lots of free stories available, which can all be streamed from a laptop or smartphone while you're doing other bits and bobs. They're also giving away hundreds of kids' books while schools are closed, and you don't even need an account to listen to them.  Google Arts & Culture is an app ...

Hi all. Hope all is well and the most serious thing you are dealing with is the boredom of your kids at home.... Well here are some reading strategies you can use with them. 1.Have them read for 10 minutes and have them note the number of pages they get through. Then have them set goals for themselves: ie. read 1/2 hour every morning and before bed. 2. Have them order their favourite books online and/or arrange a book swap with neighbours in a socially distance drop off! 3. As well, have kids note the number of pages read each day. Create a graph for the week and then at end of week have them write out a goal for the following week, etc. Have prizes for the most improved reader, the most books read etc. 4. Have family book clubs for books shared amongst you. As well, have the kids design a book cover for their book or a Movie Poster for the film version of their book. They can use PIKTOCHART to do this! Also, creating a character profile on FACEBOOK or on INSTA. Feel free to...