Family
KLRU offers a variety of resources for your family.
Listed below are some highlights.
These beautifully illustrated children's books by Afghan author Idries Shah are tales from a rich tradition of story telling from Central Asia and the Middle East.
This website includes clear examples of the big ideas in
reading, including phonemic awareness and alphabetic understanding.
This is a link to the website of the course author, Dr. Susan
Gibbs, Ph.D. The site provides audio files of the correct
pronunciation of consonants and vowels, as well as a table
for the recommended introduction and review of sounds in letters
and related decoadable words.
Turn everyday moments into fun learning experiences.
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This is a pioneering Web site which encourages 8-11 year-olds to learn about current events, and bring them a fresh way of receiving -- and reporting -- news online. At the heart of NEWS FLASH FIVE is an original, age-appropriate weekly newscast presented online by five animated kids covering five beats: national news, world, sports, entertainment & technology, and weather & science. In addition, the site will feature educational games associated with each newscast – “Just the Facts” (a news quiz), “Pin Point” (locate places in the news on a map) and “Match It,” (matching photos and names of news makers). A larger activity – “Get the Scoop” – is a guided news gathering and writing activity. There will also be opportunities for users to submit their own stories that can be used on the site. NEWS FLASH FIVE will also offer comprehensive guides showing how the site can be used by both parents and teachers.
KCTS/Seattle Television, in cooperation with PBS, has developed
a public broadcasting, multimedia initiative, entitled Parenting
Counts: A Focus on Early Learning. Using content provided by
the Talaris Research Institute, the Parenting Counts campaign
disseminates research-based information about how children think,
feel, and learn and supports parents with examples of best parenting
practices.
The goals of the initiative are:
• Stimulate greater awareness of early learning (birth
to five years)
• Promote more effective parenting and caregivers techniques
• Enhance parent-child relationships
A series of five posters (in both English and Spanish) that
present preschool teachers and parents with questions to activate
children's science and mathematics conceptual thinking.
This Austin group helps adolescent girls develop and maintain
healthy self-esteem and leadership skills by educating them,
their parents and teachers, and others who touch their lives.
The GEN Austin Web site provides resources that empower girls
to be true to themselves and think critically about the media
and girls' roles in society.
This Web site provides an activity using pattern blocks to
understand part-to-whole relationships.
Have fun playing games and learning
about geometry, science, and puzzles. This site is an amusement
park of knowledge.
The JigZone is the place on the Internet
for free online jigsaw puzzles.
Play online games, download activities
to do at home, and more cool stuff.
This site provides a wealth of information for parents about
how to help their children succeed in school.
Challenges kids to question advertising,
evaluate media and become smart consumers. The site helps
9 to 12 year-olds learn about the modern media marketplace
by showing them how to use the very same advertising tactics
used by Madison Avenue.
Provides visitors age 9 to 12 with
a much-needed resource for information related to the issues
that most affect them. Explore a wide variety of topics, from
handling divorce to getting teased by bullies; from fighting
with friends to learning about the dangers of drugs, alcohol
and smoking; from depression and grief to dealing with a pesky
younger sibling.
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KLRU Contact Information
Linda Schmid
Senior V.P. for Educational Services
email: lschmid@klru.org
direct: 512.475.9049
Mary Alice Appleman
Assistant Director for Educational Services
email: maappleman@klru.org
direct: 512.475.9051
