Information and Resources
Head Start & Early Head Start: Programs promote school readiness and child development for eligible low-income families with children from birth to 5 years old. For more information, click here.
Florida Department of Education: It serves as the single repository of education data from school districts, state and community colleges, universities, and independent postsecondary institutions, click here.
Florida Early Learning – Fact Book: The Florida Early Learning Fact Book provides information on Voluntary Pre-kindergarten (VPK) and School Readiness, click here.
Parents’ Pages: Information to help parents prepare their children for school, support their learning and assist them in finding child care, click here.
Vroom: Tools and materials turn everyday moments into brain-building exercises. For more information, click here.
Transition to Preschool
- Helping Your Child Adjust to Preschool, click here.
- Talking to Your Child’s Preschool Teacher, click here.
- Preschool Activity Library, click here.
- Early Education Parent Toolkit, click here.
Transition to Kindergarten
- Transitioning to Kindergarten Toolkit, click here.
Language & Literacy
Center for Early Literacy Learning has developed specific materials to assist parents in guiding their child’s early literacy development through the use of fun and exciting literacy learning experiences, click here.
Florida Electronic Library has more than 190 million articles, e-books, videos, and other electronic resources for the citizens of Florida, click here.
Ten early literacy tips for families, click here.
Resources to support children’s learning at home for bilingual families:
- Help Your Child Learn to Read, click here
- Learning Together at Home, click here
- The Preschool Years, click here
- School Success, click here
- The Importance of Home Language Series, click here
Baby talk, click here
Building literacy every day, click here
Explore literacy at home, click here
Home literacy environment checklist, click here
Learning letters: Games and fun, click here
Raising readers video, click here
Exploring Math & Science
Baby and toddler math milestones, click here
Early math video series, click here
Help your child develop early math skills, click here
Math in the bath, click here
Preschool and kindergarten math milestones, click here
“Let’s find out!”: Three tips for raising curious kids, click here
Science throughout the day, click here