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Parent Resources

 Listed below are resources that are helpful for parents.

Literacy Activities
Here There and Everywhere
Early Literacy: A Lullaby of Sounds and Words

Make Your Own Family Literacy Kit - The ABCs at Home with Me  NEW!!Picture of a sample family literacy kit
Instructions for Assembling Kit
Contents and Box Label (large 8 1/2 by 11 sheet label suggested for use - then just cut in half)
Parent/Provider Instruction Booklet (print front and back on 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and fold in half)

Children, Youth, and Family Articles
Each quarter, the Children, Youth, and Family division at Michigan State University Extension releases articles for their local Extension offices to use throughout the state. These articles are researched-based and address various issues within human development. The articles below cover a variety of topics of interest to parents.
 
Click on the link to the be taken to a PDF of the article:
 

Below you will find some helpful links on additional topics:

Community Coordinated Child Care
 
Developmental Questions
 
 
 
 

Free Educational Programs and Matierals