Parent Teach-It Guides

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader how to record experimental data, analyze results, and draw evidence-based conclusions.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about place value with large numbers (millions) and an introduction to decimal place value (tenths and hundredths).

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader how two-digit numbers are built from tens and ones.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about angles, types of lines, and symmetry in shapes.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader about basic fractions — dividing shapes into equal parts and naming the parts.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader about area (the space inside a shape) and perimeter (the distance around a shape).

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader about rules at home, at school, and in the community, and why laws keep us safe.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about civic participation — voting, campaigning, contacting representatives, and making a difference in the community.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader about what makes a community and the people who work to help us all.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about how communities change over time, how people work together to improve them, and the role of immigration in shaping communities.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader about different cultures — how people around the world live, celebrate, eat, and dress in different ways.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader about important figures in American history and the symbols that represent our country.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader about the seven continents and five oceans that make up our planet.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader about different landforms and how geography influences where and how people live.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader how to read simple maps and understand what a neighborhood is.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader about sound and light — what they are, how they travel, and how we experience them.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader how four-digit numbers work, including the thousands place and reading, writing, and comparing larger numbers.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader about natural resources, where they come from, and why it's important to conserve them.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about Earth's major systems — the water cycle, weather, climate, plate tectonics, and how Earth changes over time.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader about the major features of Earth's surface — mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, and oceans.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader about different types of rocks, what soil is made of, and how Earth's surface slowly changes over time.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader how living things are connected through food chains and how energy moves through an ecosystem.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader how animals and plants develop traits that help them survive in their environments.

A parent's guide to teaching reading comprehension, including predicting, summarizing, questioning, and making connections with texts.

A parent's guide to teaching paragraph writing, including topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences.

A parent's guide to teaching two-digit subtraction with regrouping (borrowing), including place value understanding and the standard algorithm.

A parent's guide to building addition fluency for sums up to 20, including strategies for memorizing facts and building number sense.

A parent's guide to teaching fraction addition and subtraction with like denominators, including visual models and the path to unlike denominators.

A parent's guide to teaching fractions as parts of a whole, including numerators, denominators, and recognizing equivalent fractions.

A parent's guide to teaching two-digit addition with regrouping, including place value understanding and the standard algorithm.

A parent's guide to teaching long division step-by-step, including the standard algorithm and how to handle remainders.

A parent's guide to teaching division as sharing and grouping, connecting it to multiplication, and building fluency with basic division facts.

A parent's guide to helping your second grader read smoothly, accurately, and with expression.

How to help your kindergartener understand number order, compare quantities (more/less), and identify numbers that come before and after a given number.

How to teach your kindergartener the sound each letter makes, beginning sounds, and ending sounds — the foundation of all reading and decoding.

How to teach your kindergartener to subtract within 10 using objects, fingers, and counting back — understanding subtraction as taking away and finding how many are left.

How to teach your kindergartener to add two numbers with a sum up to 10 using objects, fingers, and counting on.

How to teach your kindergartener to read and build consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) and consonant-vowel (CV) words using letter sounds.

How to teach your kindergartener to recognize high-frequency sight words instantly by sight, building reading fluency and confidence.

How to teach your kindergartener to count objects accurately by touching each one exactly once, and to understand that the last number counted tells how many.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader to add describing words, details, and dialogue to their creative stories.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader to write creative stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader to understand figurative language and build academic vocabulary for reading across subjects.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader what a sentence is and how to write a complete sentence with a capital and a period.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader about the four types of sentences and how to vary sentence structure for more interesting writing.

How to help your kindergartener recognize, name, and describe 2D shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, hexagon) by their attributes.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader comprehension strategies — predicting, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader consonant blends, digraphs, and how to read consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader how three-digit numbers are built from hundreds, tens, and ones.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader how to measure length and compare the sizes of objects.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about converting between measurement units and calculating elapsed time.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader to tell time to the hour and half-hour and to identify and count pennies, nickels, and dimes.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader to calculate elapsed time and solve multi-step money word problems.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader to tell time to 5-minute intervals and to count money including quarters and dollar bills.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader to add three-digit numbers with regrouping in the ones, tens, and hundreds places.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader to subtract within 20 using counting back, making 10, and related addition facts.

A parent's guide to teaching your third grader to subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping (borrowing) across tens and hundreds.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader about decimals — what they are, how they relate to fractions, and how to compare, add, and subtract them.

A parent's guide to teaching your fourth grader to multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.

A parent's guide to teaching your second grader that fractions are numbers — not just parts of shapes — and how to represent them on a number line.

A parent's guide to teaching your first grader to understand what they read — retelling, asking questions, and making connections.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade guide for parents teaching the Three Branches of Government.

A comprehensive teaching guide for 4th-grade students covering the Bill of Rights and the historical context of its creation.