This guide was designed for use in teaching parents of elementary school children how to provide learning experiences for their children at home. The learning activities suggested are inexpensive and simple and are intended to enhance the child's development in the areas of reading, writing, and computing. The guide contains chapters on: (1)…

The goal of this program, centered around six filmstrips, is to help parents learn new skills for teaching their young children in the home. This leaders' guide describes the purpose of the filmstrips, gives some organizational and general considerations, outlines the procedure for using the filmstrips, and enumerates some guidelines for handling…

Designed as a training and reference manual for instructors and their administrators in Adult Basic Education (ABE) home instruction programs, the handbook is based upon experience in six projects in Ohio and Kentucky. Adults receiving home instruction are functionally illiterate and, through a combined lack of transportation, child care,…

This guide is to be used by leaders of inservice training workshops for instructors of parent study groups interested in learning new parenting skills that will foster home-based preschool education. The introduction provides suggestions on how a school might begin a program of school-sponsored, home-based early childhood education. The guidelines…

This resource booklet for home visitors was developed for use in home-based preschool programs and is part of a learning package which instructs prospective family workers, family worker trainers, and parents in the entry level skills, knowledge, and orientations needed to provide children from birth through 8 years of age with school oriented…

This guide is intended as a basic resource for preschool Spanish/English bilingual home training. It presents an overview of the bilingual project of which it is an outgrowth, and offers guidelines for setting up similar programs. The guidelines cover such topics as: (1) tutor selection, training, and evaluation; (2) recommended materials for…