The school has met and come up with a list of resources that you and your child can use to stay active and learning with while the schools are shut down.

Stay up-to-date with information from DuVall Elementary by following the DuVall School News Blog and Dearborn Public Schools Website.

During the time that students are at home, there are many great learning activities will be able to continue to help them grow academically.  Please use the resources listed below with your child for his or her grade level and special area subjects.  

Reading with ALL students:

 Read at home with your child at least 20 minutes every day with books they enjoy.   EPIC Books and Moby Max contain web based books for students to read online.  To access, students will use their credentials and log into CLEVER from the website http  s://dearbornschools.org/resources/students.Online books are available from the Dearborn Library for (Elementary Students) and  (Pre-school) children using your library card information. 

Before reading:

• You may read to your child a text before he or she reads it.  
• Have your child make predictions about what might happen next.  
• Have your child use picture clues from the cover to predict what the book is about.   

During reading:

• Read out loud to your child.
• Listen to your child read.
• Echo read (you read a line and then have your child repeat the line).
• Read together at the same time (choral reading).
• Reread or retell favorite stories.
• Talk to your son or daughter about what they are reading.
• Talk about how the pictures in the book connect to the words on the page.

After reading, you may:

• Ask “What do you remember from the text?”
•  Ask questions about the reading (who, what, when, where, why).
• Have your child talk about his or her favorite parts of the story and why.
• Ask “What have you learned from the text?”
• Can you please retell the story for me from beginning to end in sequence with characters names
• Ask “Who was in the book and what did this character do in the story?”
• Connect the story to your child’s life or to other books you and your child have read together.
• Can you tell me the author’s purpose? What do you think the author wanted you to learn in this story?
• Writing Prompt: Discuss the overall topic of the story/theme of the story and ask your child to draw a picture on a piece of paper and write about the theme or an inspired story from the book’s theme. 

Language Arts (Resources for your child to use for their 15-20 min. of daily reading)

• Raz-Kids: 
• Educational Shows: Word World, Word Girl, Super Why, Martha Speaks, Sesame Street, Leap Frog, Between the Lions

• Storyline Online– The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.  
• ReadWriteThink.org– reading and writing resources across grade levels.
• BrainpopJr.- Free stuff section includes Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and SEL information
• Discovery Education– Educational videos that cross grade levels.  Log in with Google.