30 Days of Families Learning Together — NCFL’s guide provides a month’s worth of family literacy activities and practices designed to inspire family memories rooted in imagining, playing, and learning together. bit.ly/30daysfamilieslearning.

Cultivating Readers — This parent-friendly magazine provides effective and easy strategies for promoting reading throughout a child’s early years. The magazine is available in English and Spanish and includes a monthly calendar of activities to do with your child. Download a free copy at bit.ly/cultivatingreaders.

En Camino — With the support of the MetLife Foundation, NCFL created comprehensive online resources that support families’ aspirations for education and help create strong transition partnerships between programs and postsecondary educational institutions. This online program, On Our Way: Educational Toolkit for Families, is available in English and Spanish at bit.ly/encaminoncfl. Additional support materials are also available online.

Family Time Machine™— Supported by Toyota and fueled by ideas and imagination, The Family Time Machine is a collection of fun activities to help you make the most of your time together as a family. Categorized for different times of the day (bedtime, bath time, dinner time, etc.), families can find and share their favorite way to learn together. Visit familytimemachine.com.

Foto-novelas — Parents + Schools = Successful Children/Padres + Escuelas = Niños Exitosos are bilingual products generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The two bilingual foto-novelas for parents –“Get Involved!” (¡Involúcrate!)/ “Reading at Home” (Lectura en el hogar) – are complemented by Web-based flash movies (audio in English and Spanish) at bit.ly/fotonovelas.

Healthy Family Habits — This set of resources and interactives were developed to help families establish and maintain healthy lifestyle choices. For families, there are online resources and real-world ways to practice healthy habits in their homes. For schools, literacy programs, and community-based organizations, there are step-by-step guides and downloadable resources for hosting four intergenerational events. All resources are available in English and Spanish. Access the complete collection at familieslearning.org/health.

How Would You Feel? — Explore the civil rights movement by participating in this virtual sit-in and think about how it feels to be in someone else’s shoes. Go to bit.ly/civilrights-sitin.

Learn to Earn Toolkit — The toolkit is designed for adults who want to increase their employability skills. It is ideal for intermediate and advanced English language learners and beginning and intermediate adult basic education students. Articles for learners to explore ten skill areas (the top ten identified by employers) are available at two levels. Earn badges as you pass quizzes for each article. Instructors can view student progress with an instructor account. Go to learntoearntoolkit.org.

Cultivating ReadersMaking Reading Active and Fun!

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National Center for Families Learning Free Resources

Parent Involvement• All Your Parents = AYP• Building Literacy into Your Parent Education

Curriculum• Partnering with Families for Student Success • Elementary Parent Workshops to Go • Preschool Parent Workshops to Go

English Language Learners• Hispanic Parent Involvement: Tools for Effective

Planning and Engagement (Foto Novelas – Bilingual Resource)

• How to Make Connections: A Look at Culture and Diversity in the Adult ESL Classroom

• Parenting for Academic Success: A Curriculum for Families Learning English

• Talking About Wordless Picture Books: A Tutor Strategy Supporting English Language Learners

• Families Reading and Talking Together (Bilingual Resource)

Children’s Education• Children’s Literacy — Preschool (or Infants/

Toddlers)• Read Together, Reach for the Stars:

Dialogic Reading• Talk, Talk, Talk: Oral Language/Shared Reading• What Works for Early Language and Emergent

Literacy Instruction

Family Literacy and Learning• Foundations in Family Literacy/Learning • Collaborating for Component Integration• Sustaining Your Literacy Program • Sweet Spot of Family Literacy: Parent Time and

Parent and Child Together (PACT) Time® for Preschool Families

• Meaningful Learning in Parent Time and Parent and Child Together (PACT) Time® for Preschool Families and the Elementary Grades

• Health and Financial Literacy

Facilitated Online Courses• Understanding the College and Career Readiness

Standards for Adult Education • Assessment to Instruction • Effective Instructional Strategies• Effective Lesson Planning• Assessment to Instruction for ESL Instructors• Effective Adult ESL Classrooms• ESL Transitions • Incorporating CASAS Competencies and

Standards in ESL Instruction• Read Together, Reach for the Stars:

Dialogic Reading• Employability Skills in the Contextualized

Classroom

Adult Education• Adult Reading: Assessment Informs Instruction • Building Fluency and Comprehension for

Adult Readers • Building Vocabulary and Comprehension for

Adult Readers • Understanding the College and Career Readiness

Standards for Adult Education• Research-Based Strategies for Adult Reading

Instruction

Customized Professional Development• Leadership Consultation• Coaching• Literacy Coalition Building• Curriculum Writing

Professional Developmentfor Two Generations

NCFL offers a range of professional development trainings to support learning and literacy practitioners across the educational spectrum. Contact us for full descriptions, training objectives, agendas, and cost estimates to bring training to your school, district, or community.

National Literacy Directory (NLD) — The NLD is the most comprehensive listing service designed to help individuals find local literacy and education programs and GED® testing centers in their areas. Launched with funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, NLD contains over 6,500 educational agencies located across the United States. Go to nationalliteracydirectory.org.

Parent Guide for Reading and Standards — Standards, standards, standards! You’ve heard of them, but what are they? What do you need to know about them? With this resource you will learn ways you can connect with teachers and tips to help your child meet the standards at home. Go to bit.ly/readingandstandards.

Renegade Buggies — Race your way to smart spending habits in this dynamic endless runner game with financial literacy at its core. Grab items from your shopping list and collect coins and coupons every chance you get. But beware of obstacles, because they’re all around you! After crossing the finish line, check out, making sure to choose the item with the best bang for its buck. Choose carefully, because the goal is to save as much money as you can. Go to renegadebuggies.familieslearning.org.

Toyota Family Trails — NCFL and Toyota believe your family is the best teacher your child will ever have and the world around you is the ultimate classroom. At Family Trails, we’ve collected stories of real families learning together through adventure to inspire your own family’s journeys and reflections. Join the growing conversation by tagging your own favorite family moments with the #FamilyTrails hashtag on Instagram. Go to familytrails.com.

Volunteer Toolkit: Preparing Volunteers to More Effectively Help Children Learn to Read — Classroom volunteers can use the modules of this toolkit to lean key strategies to help children improve their reading. Go to readingtoolkit.familieslearning.org.

What Works: It Takes Just a Minute posters — These posters cover the basics of what parents can do every day to support talking and reading with their kids. Read With Your Child and Talk With Your Child are both available with Spanish on one side and English on the other. Download a free copy at bit.ly/whatworksposters.

Wonderopolis®— Wonderopolis is a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Our Wonders of the Day® are fun questions that provide learning opportunities for everyday life—ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs. Visit wonderopolis.org and its popular offshoot, camp.wonderopolis.org.

What Works

• Families• Adult Learners• Early Childhood• ELL

• K-12• Family Literacy• Reading• Health Literacy

• Financial Literacy• Educators and Literacy Professionals• Research and Policy

NCFL provides education resources that can benefit all families and family members—from early childhood to adult learning, with particular emphasis on reading and lifelong learning. Visit our website to view our complete set of free offerings. Familieslearning.org/our_solutions

To send an information request to NCFL’s training department, email delder@familieslearning.org or call Donna Elder at 502-584-1133 ext. 143.