Engaging Parents
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Irving ISD values our parents and their partnership in educating our littlest learners.
Parents can utilize this website to learn ways to incorporate learning at home and see how Irving ISD is engaging families in and outside of the classroom.
Family Engagement Plan
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Parents can review the Family Engagement Plan to learn how they can support learning at home as well as how the district and campuses engage parents, educate students and support students throughout the school year.
Parent Engagement Resources
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ReadyRosie: At-home daily activities
ReadyRosie is an online resource that emails daily activities to adults to do with their children ages 0-5. Each activity is modeled with a two-minute video.
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Savvas Three Cheers for PreK! Family Engagement Portal for PreK 4
Fully integrated with Savvas Realize™, Three Cheers for Pre-K supports and enhances early learning through interactive games, online narrated books, and fun digital activities rooted in learning goals.
An online Family Engagement portal gives parents and families the tools they need to support their little learners at home.
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Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages.
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Frog Street Resources for PreK 3
The curriculum for PreK 3 follows the Frog Street Threes resource.
Parents, check out this curriculum overview in the video below.
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Children's Learning Institute (CLI) for Parents
For more than 10 years, the Texas School Ready project has been supporting PreK teachers in our common goal of improving children’s “school readiness” - the foundational knowledge children need to be prepared for kindergarten.
Through the new The Children's Learning Institute (CLI) Engage platform, we are excited to provide opportunities for parents to participate in the Texas School Ready! project too!
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PreK State Guidelines
The Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines are aligned with the Kindergarten Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), sequenced to follow child development and give teaching strategies for each of the guidelines.
The guidelines offer educators the information and support to prepare all children for success in school.
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Developmental Guidelines for 0 to 5 years old
Published in 2013, the Texas Infant, Toddler, and Three-Year-Old Early Learning Guidelines describe expectations about what children should know and be able to do across developmental domains of learning during specific age ranges, as well as what steps caregivers should take to support healthy development.
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Texas Education Agency (TEA) Family Resources
Parents can reference TEA's Family Resources website to learn about high-quality instruction, kindergarten readiness, PreK eligibility and more!