Resources for Running a Successful Parent Education Night

Parent Education Nights are a key way for educators to share tips on how parents can prepare their children for school and what they will learn. Typically conducted on an annual basis, parent sessions give the school the chance to equip their community with the tools that will reinforce their school-based learning. PLD has developed specific handouts and video content for schools to use at a Parent Education Night. The resources aim to involve and educate parents on how to support their child’s learning.

As a starting point, we recommend teachers spend a couple of minutes explaining how kids learn, in particular, that academic success is dependent on developing three interlocking sets of skills: Literacy, Oral Language and Movement and Motor. To help educators to quickly and easily prepare for upcoming year presentations we have pulled together all of the key downloadable resources and video presentations into one spot. The beginning of the school year is an incredibly busy time of the year. Despite the workload ahead of all of you, it is imperative that schools start their year well. With this in mind, we’ve developed the following 2020 essential resources for running a successful parent information night blog.

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Parent Education Night – Term 1

PLD has a large range of downloadable resources containing milestones and learning support information. We encourage the distribution of these resources to parents and the wider community through newsletters, websites and general during your parent information sessions. Our more popular downloads are available to download in the Parent Education Sheets and Download Guide. View our entire range of milestones HERE.

Parent Education Videos: We have created videos and playlists specifically in the area of parent education, making it easier for educators to communicate milestones and best practices to their community.  The following videos are designed to either be embedded within e-newsletters or viewed within parent education workshops/sessions. We have a made a curated list of the best videos to share HERE, but here is a taste of our most popular ones:

PLD’s Comprehension Questions – an at home program: Reading at home is an important part of a child’s literacy journey.  If you are implementing our Comprehension Questions for 3 or 4 year olds program in which students are sent home with a picture book and a set of scripted questions, it is recommended that you lead the parents through the narrative retelling process.  This can be done by showing the parents the following short age based video clips.

Parent Education Night – Term 1

PLD has a large range of downloadable resources containing milestones and learning support information. We encourage the distribution of these resources to parents and the wider community through newsletters, websites and general during your parent information sessions. Our more popular downloads are available to download in the Parent Education Sheets and Download Guide. View our entire range of milestones HERE.

Parent Education Videos: We have created videos and playlists specifically in the area of parent education, making it easier for educators to communicate milestones and best practices to their community.  The following videos are designed to either be embedded within e-newsletters or viewed within parent education workshops/sessions. We have made a curated list of the best Parent Education videos to share HERE, but here is a taste of our most popular ones:

PLD’s Comprehension Questions – an at-home program: Reading at home is an important part of a child’s literacy journey.  If you are implementing our Comprehension Questions for 5-Year-Olds program in which students are sent home with a picture book and a set of scripted questions, it is recommended that you lead the parents through the narrative retelling process.  This can be done by showing the parents the following short age-based video clips: https://youtu.be/bbC6_x_V1lQ

Parent Education Night – Term 1

PLD has a large range of downloadable resources containing milestones and learning support information. We encourage the distribution of these resources to parents and the wider community through newsletters, websites and general during your parent information sessions. Our more popular downloads are available to download in the Parent Education Sheets and Download Guide. View our entire range of milestones here.

Parent Education Videos: We have created videos and playlists specifically in the area of parent education, making it easier for educators to communicate milestones and best practices to their community.  The following videos are designed to either be embedded within e-newsletters or viewed within parent education workshops/sessions. PLD has created a curated list of the best videos to share here, but here is a taste of our most popular ones:

PLD’s Comprehension Questions – an at-home program: Reading at home is an important part of a child’s literacy journey.  If you are implementing our Comprehension Questions for 6 & 7 Year Olds program in which students are sent home with a picture book and a set of scripted questions, it is recommended that you lead the parents through the narrative retelling process. 

Parent Education Night – Term 1

PLD has a large range of downloadable resources containing milestones and learning support information. We encourage the distribution of these resources to parents and the wider community through newsletters, websites and general during your parent information sessions.  Some of our more popular downloads include the following. View our entire range of downloadable milestones HERE.

Parent Education Videos: We have created videos and playlists specifically in the area of parent education, making it easier for educators to communicate milestones and best practices to their community.  The following videos are designed to either be embedded within e-newsletters or viewed within parent education workshops/sessions. We have created a curated list of the best videos to share here, but here is a taste of our most popular ones:

PLD’s Comprehension Questions – an at-home program: Reading at home is an important part of a child’s literacy journey.  If you are implementing our Comprehension Questions for 8 & 9 Year Olds program in which students are sent home with a picture book and a set of scripted questions, it is recommended that you lead the parents through the narrative retelling process. 

Are you looking at running a reading workshop?

The FAQ linked below provides 3 TIPS on how to run a reading workshop for parents, helping them to assist in their child’s reading potential.

Tip 1: Recognise that oral language will very soon link to how the students process written language Students who have a large vocabulary and speak with adult like grammar typically progress into reading with much greater ease. Check that your child’s speech and language skills are where they should be by downloading the milestone guides above.

Tip 2: A child’s reading comprehension skills can be predicted (or worked on before they are even reading) through the presentation of specifically scripted comprehension questions. Training videos and information is provided here: https://pld-literacy.org/product/comprehension-questions-for-5-year-olds/

Tip 3: Understand the process of early reading, so parents know what to expect and how it to make it as enjoyable as possible.