| Families .... Stay Involved!
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TIPS TO. . .
Help our children read well and independently
by the end of the third grade
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Read to, and with, your children for 30 minutes every day |
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Help your children get a library card and check out books. |
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Limit the amount and kind of TV your children watch. |
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Keep track of your children's progress in school by regularly talking to their teachers and visiting their classrooms. |
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Help our children learn to meet high math and science standards
and take challenging math and science courses
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Go over your children's mathematics homework with them. |
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Meet with your children's math teachers to find out what your children are learning and how you can help. |
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Do math activities with your child such as counting, measuring, estimating and solving problems. |
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Insist that your child study algebra in eighth grade and more advanced math and science through high school, such as chemistry, physics, trigonometry and calculus. |
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Help our children start early to prepare for college and careers
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Encourage your children to take challenging courses every year in middle and high school to keep all college and career options open; enroll them in Advanced Placement and tech prop courses in their last few years of high school. |
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Start saving now for college--a little bit each month helps. Learn about the Education Individual Retirement Account. |
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Learn about scholarships, grants, work-study, tax credits and other options to help families pay for college. Call 1-800-4FED-AID. |
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Make sure your child registers for, prepares for and takes the SAT, ACT, and any other entrance exams required by colleges. |
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