Family Resources
All individuals and agencies are welcome to download and use any of the documents that are on this section of our web site. We ask that recognition to Literacy for Life Foundation or appropriate author is given when utilizing the documents available.
To read and print the PDF documents listed below you will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Activities
- Play for Literacy: Celebrating Family Literacy Day booklet (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Developing Healthy Kids Through Outdoor Play: The Whole Child Report
- Mom's Minivan
- Pool Rhyme Time
Pool Rhyme Time is an innovative program that combines aquatic instruction with rhymes, songs and stories. This program is available for public use and may be photocopied and adapted for use in your community. The only restriction is that Literacy for Life Foundation is acknowledged as the developer of the program.
Check out Rae Pica’s website at www.movingandlearning.com for information on how literacy and movement are linked.
Rhymes, Songs & Lullabies
- Bouncy Rhymes (PDF 29 KB) MS Word version (39 KB)
- Lullabies (PDF 13 KB) MS Word version (34 KB)
- Hello Everybody (PDF 133 KB)
- Rhymes (PDF 37 KB) MS Word version (72 KB)
- Songs (PDF 40 KB) MS Word version (84 KB)
For Parents
Interesting and useful websites
Downloads
- A Child Must Hear a Thousand Stories Before they go to School! (PDF - 9 KB)
- Reading out loud to your Children! (PDF - 85 KB)
- Child Development – things to know! (PDF - 109 KB)
- Ten Good Things to Do For Your Baby or Young Child (PDF - 79 KB)
- Internet Web Sites - Resource List (PDF - 117 KB)
Family Literacy Calendar Activities and Ideas for every day
Literacy begins at home. It’s never too early, or too late, to read, write, sing, talk, rhyme and play with your children.
Make every day a learning day and every place a learning place, even just talking to kids helps make a difference. Stay involved, go to parent-teacher interviews. Keep reading together, kids are never too old to benefit from this shared learning experience. Follow this link to a calendar printed in English and Spanish that will give you lots of ideas every day of the year. http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/sc-day-by-day-calendar
