"The first thing my son did when he got home from school was to take Family Connections out of his book bag. He wanted to do the activities right then!"   — Parent

A series of ready-to-use early learning guides called Family Connections has been helping schools connect parents to their children's learning for years—but a good thing just got better. Additional reading and math activities and full-color original illustrations invite parent and child to spend more time learning and having fun together. Research tells us that when this happens, children learn more and are more likely to stay in school.

• a message to parents
  
• fun, inexpensive learning activities families can do with their children
  
• read-alouds and new extension activities that address the five essential components of reading identified by the National Reading Panel—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

Family Connections Pre-K and Family Connections K-1 are sold by the box. Every box contains a teacher handbook and 22 copies of each of the 30 issues—enough to serve 22 families for a whole school year! $195/box, plus 5% shipping and handling.