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Resources for Parents and Teachers!

Thanks for visiting! This page will be the place where we can share and distribute resources intended for parents (and teachers) associated with the adult workshops at the Young Authors' Festival. These materials are created by pre-service teachers enrolled in College of Education, Health & Human Services courses at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Resources for Parents

New resources for 2019:

Finding Inspiration for Crafts through Reading
Use common household supplies to create crafts inspired by picture books.

Encouraging Higher Order Thinking in Reading
Use parent-child conversations around read alouds to promote comprehension.
Use Authority Lists and Freewriting to Discover Topics
Freewriting about topics listed on authority lists empowers students to write about topics of interest.

Great resources from past years of YAF:

Connecting Reading with Family Activities
Ideas for connecting family activities and outings with reading and books.
Mad Lib Activity
A Mad Lib is a popular children’s writing activity where a person fills in blanks to complete a story. Each of these blanks are labeled as different parts of speech (see above). The person must then write in a word that correlates to the given part of speech. This activity helps to engage students to learn and understand the parts of speech in an exciting and creative way. After the Mad Lib is completed, the person can choose to share their story with others and more than likely laugh out loud. These stories may shy away from common stories where a certain logic is followed, but that is the fun in it. Be creative!
Motivate your Child to Read (PPTX)
This powerpoint presentation walks through multiple tips for motivating your child to read.
Popcorn Anyone?
A list of family-friendly book to screen ideas for movies based on books.
What are some ways to motivate kids to read?
This handy and graphic one-page sheet shares a number of tips about motivating kids to read.

Ways to Build Reading Confidence
Suggested readings, writing prompts, and other ways to build reading confidence.