家長資源

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PRESENTATION

 

• Peace in a frantic world
  – Mindful Parenting and its effects on the familyA presentation by Prof. Mark Williams

 

• Helping children develop into self-confident and motivated learners!
  A presentation and Q&A session by Dr. Deborah Stipek

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RECOMMENDED READING

 

• Diane W Frankenstein – Reading Together: Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read  and  Conversation Starters

 

• Stephen Krashen – Keep Your Brain Young: Read, Be Bilingual, Drink Coffee

 

• Julianne Chiaet – Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy

 

• New York Times – How to Raise a Reader and book recommendations

 

• Ana (Jovanovic) Sokolovic, M.S. Clinical Pscyhology –  15 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy

 

• Annie Ho, Ex-Board Member of Bring Me A Book Hong Kong At Home with Books – Hong Kong
  Articles about early childhood literacy, together with picture book recommendations

 

• Gweneth Rehnborg, Ex-Board Member of Bring Me A Book Hong Kong
  Her personal Blog to share musings on raising children abroad, mindfulness, and adolescent literacy topics

 

• Guys Read – a web-based literacy program includes a large list of “books that guys read”

 

• Daddy’s Time to Read!

 

• Daniel Pennac – The Rights of the Reader

 

• Open University – Supporting Readers at Home

 

• Rudine Sims Bishop – Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors

 

• Reading Club of ChoiEE 菜姨姨讀書會(Chinese only)
  A Facebook page hosted by Joyce Choi, sharing of her book recommendations and read-aloud clips

 

• Reading Makes You Shine 晴朗悅讀 (Chinese only)
  A Facebook page managed by a group of enthusiastic parents who spreading the love of reading

 

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FREE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR RESOURCES

 

• Roald Dahl Museum;  lesson plans;  Alphabetical order – Gungswizzled up  and   More Extra-Usual Words

 

• Dav Pilkey at Home  and   Make your own lovely Petey

 

• Eric Carle: Museum of Picture Book Art

 

• Mo Willems: Lunchtime Doodles – Live streamed every week!

 

• Anthony Browne: Play the Shape Game

 

• David Wiesner:  I Got It!  – His visual work of a baseball game

 

• Draw-along with Rob Biddulph

 

• Grace Lin: A series of videos highlighting Grace’s books and works

 

• Create a character of “Shh! We Have a Plan” with Chris Haughton

 

• Draw a turtle with Jon Klassen

 

• Draw with Ed Vere: How to draw Leonard the Lion

 

• Draw every day with Jarrett J. Krosoczka

 

• Draw the little mouse with Petr Horáček

 

• Helene Boudreau: Draw me more

 

• Watch doodles, painting and reading with Peter H. Reynolds

 

• Tony DiTerlizzi: Drawn to Fantasy

 

• Bruce Hale: Writing tips videos 

 

• Jarrett Lerner:  Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts

 

• Leah Henderson: Writing advice or diverse book recommendations

 

• Peter Butzl: Reading Activities and The Cogheart Adventures

 

• 跟著童書作者黃郁欽學畫畫  – 簡單步驟畫出繪本主角阿嚕 (Chinese only)

 

          Downloads of fun stuff

 

• Dav Pilkey ( Author of  The Captain Underpants & Dog Man series )

 

• Mo Willems ( Author of Elephant & Piggie ＆ The Pigeon series )

 

• Chris Haughton ( Author of  Little Owl Lost )

 

• Eric Litwin ( Author of the Pete the Cat series )

 

• Ethan Long (Author of Up, Tall and High )

 

• Sean Taylor ( Author of Hool Owl , Master Of Disguise)

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COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) – RESOURCES & PRECAUTIONS

 

• ReadtheWorld Program – To help children feel less isolated when they forced to stay home

 

• BookTrust HomeTime – Keep Families Entertained During Lockdown

 

• Resources for Families

 

• Resources for Remote Learning

 

• Stephen Krashen’s Seven Tips for Teaching Language During Covid-19 

 

• Answering Kids’ Questions About the Coronavirus, in Free Picture Books 

 

• Coronovirus – A story for Children, illustrated by Axel Scheffler

 

• The Little Universe of Dor Dor – by Dorothy Kwok & Noel Ho

 

• 多多的小小世界 (感謝恩悅綜合家庭服務中心的創作及分享）

 

• 抗疫小伙伴（感謝李揚立之醫生用心製作及分享） Chinese only

 

• 抗逆．抗疫 （感謝香港教育局課程發展處中國語文教育組製作及豐子愷兒童圖畫書奬的製作及分享） Chinese only

 

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