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. As a condition of receipt of funds pursuant to Section
8238.4, a participating part-day preschool program shall coordinate
the provision of all of the following:
(a) Opportunities for parents and legal guardians to work with
their children on interactive literacy activities. For purposes of
this subdivision, "interactive literacy activities" means activities
in which parents or legal guardians actively participate in
facilitating the acquisition by their children of prereading skills
through guided activities such as shared reading, learning the
alphabet, and basic vocabulary development.
(b) Parenting education for parents and legal guardians of
children in participating classrooms to support the development by
their children of literacy skills. Parenting education shall include,
but not be limited to, instruction in all of the following:
(1) Providing support for the educational growth and success of
their children.
(2) Improving parent-school communications and parental
understanding of school structures and expectations.
(3) Becoming active partners with teachers in the education of
their children.
(4) Improving parental knowledge of local resources for the
identification of and services for developmental disabilities,
including, but not limited to, contact information for school
district special education referral.
(c) Referrals, as necessary, to providers of instruction in adult
education and English as a second language in order to improve the
academic skills of parents and legal guardians of children in
participating classrooms.
(d) Staff development for teachers in participating classrooms
that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Development of a pedagogical knowledge, including, but not
limited to, improved instructional and behavioral strategies.
(2) Knowledge and application of developmentally appropriate
assessments of the prereading skills of children in participating
classrooms.
(3) Information on working with families, including the use of
onsite coaching, for guided practice in interactive literacy
activities.
(4) Providing targeted interventions for all young children to
improve kindergarten readiness upon program completion.