The Just Read, Florida

School-Home Tool Kit
SUNLINK
Sunrise Skill Builders
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program

Just Read, Florida!

Office has a website that can be accessed at www.myflorida.com. This

website provides an overview of Governor Bush's reading initiatives and information on the

Federal Reading First reading initiative. Resources for Families, Educators, and Communities

are also available on the

Just Read, Florida!

website. This week we will provide an overview of

the resources available to Families; we will provide an overview of other website features in the

The Family Resources webpage is under the Resources link on the

Just Read, Florida!

http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/governorinitiatives/reading/resources.html

Information on the School-Home Tool Kit, the Sunrise Skill Builders, the Put Reading First, the

SUNLINK and the Sunshine State Young Reading's Award Program is available on this

School-Home Tool Kit

The School-Home Links Reading Kit offers tips on creating community and family-school

partnerships with the purpose of improving children's reading. The reading kits are a collection

of research-based activities designed to help families reinforce the reading and language arts

skills that their children are learning at school. The kits are available for Kindergarten through

Grade 3 in English and Spanish

Putting Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read

Parents have an important role to play in developing their children's literacy. To learn more

about how to promote reading at home, they may want to consult this Parent's Guide.

SUNLINK is a state database of school library media center holdings in Florida's K-12 public

schools. The database is designed to promote resource sharing among public schools. SUNLINK

can be searched by author, title, or subject as well as full Boolean searching by keyword,

location, format or language of the material. Funded by the Florida legislature, SUNLINK is an

initiative of the School Library Media Services Office of the Department of Education. The

project is administered by the SUNLINK Project Office at the University of Central Florida.

Sunrise Skill Builders

As a parent and your child's first teacher, take advantage of the windows of opportunity

described in this book. In addition, you will find guidelines for physical, language, intellectual

and social-emotional activities and milestones for typical development in ages birth to 6 months,

6 to 12 months, 1 to 2 years, 2 to 3 years, 3 to 4 years and 4 to 5 years.

Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program

The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program is a statewide reading motivation program

for students in grades 3-8. The program, cosponsored by the School Library Media Services

Office of the Department of Education and the Florida Association for Media in Education,

began in 1983. In 2000-2001 there were over 1,000 public schools and 60 non-public schools

participating. Over 73,000 students read enough books to qualify for voting in the statewide

balloting for their favorite book for the year.

Just Read, Florida!

Office, will be providing a series of regular updates to you

regarding Governor Bush's

Just Read, Florida!

Reading Initiative and the federal

Reading First

grants. We encourage you to share this information with others.