Getting involved/contact us
For more information about the Pathways to Family Success, the Holyoke Family Literacy Coalition, collaborations, donations:
Please call 413-534-2026.
For information about volunteer tutor/mentor training and opportunities:
Please call 413-534-3376.
For information about Even Start, the comprehensive Family Literacy program,
Please call 413-534-2165.
List of Parent Education/Family Support Resources
Available to borrow in the Pathways to Family Success office
(HALO Center of the Holyoke Public Schools, 57 Suffolk St., Holyoke, MA )
Books about Parenting
Books about DisciplineBooks about Communication and Team BuildingPoetry books for TeenagersVideosBrochures
Books about Parenting:
Building your baby's brain – A parent's guide to the first five years
By Diane Trister Dodge and Cate Heroman
How to talk so kids will learn at home and in school
By Adele Farber and Elaine Mazlish
How to talk so your kids will listen & listen so your kids will talk
By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Preschool for Parents
By Diane Trister Dodge and Toni S. Bickart
Questions kids wish they could ask their parents
By Zoe Stern and Ellen Sue Stern
Siblings without rivalry (How to help you children live together so you can live too)
By Adele Farber and Elaine Mazlish
1-2-3 Magic (Effective Discipline for Children 2-12)
By Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D
Discipline without shouting or spanking (practical solutions to the most common preschool behavior problems )
By Jerry Wyckoff, Ph.D and Barbara C. Unell
How to behave so your children will too!
By Sal Severe, Ph.D
No more misbehavin' (38 difficult behaviors and how to stop them)
By Michele Borba, Ed.D.
Kids, parents and power struggles (Effective strategies that will help….)
By Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Books about Communication and Team Building :
104 Activities that build: self-esteem, teamwork, communication, anger mgt., self-discovery and coping skills
By Alanna Jones
2 nd Cooperative Games Book
By Terry Orlick
Big book of team building games
By John Newstrom & Edward Scannell
You hear me? (poems written by teenage boys)
Edited by Betsy Franco
Things I have to tell you (poems written by teenage girls)
Edited by Betsy Franco
One Copy of Each
Reading and Study Skills at Home
Supporting your Beginning Reader
Reading to your Children
Two Copies of Each
La Lectora y la habilidad para estudiar en casa
Apoyando al lector principante
Leyendo a sus niños
Sesame Street Beginnings: Talk, Read, Write/Comenzando con Sesame Street : Hablar, Leer y Escribir
Sesame Street Beginnings: Language to Literacy/Comenzando con Sesame Street : Del lenguaje al alfabetismo
Sesame Street goes to the Doctor (English only)
Reading Aloud to your children
How to get preschoolers excited about reading
Choosing good books for children
Summertime reading adventures
Every grownup is a famous storyteller
You can help your child with homework
You can help your child with math
You can help your child with reading and writing
You can motivate your child to learn
Usted puede ayudar a sus hijos con la tarea
Usted puede ayudar a sus hijos con la matematica
Usted puede ayudar a sus hijos a leer y escribir
Usted puede motivar a sus hijos a aprender
Family Connections 1 (Preschool)
Conecciones Familiares 1 (Preescolar)
Family Connections 2 (Kindergarten) – English only
Family Literacy - What is it?
Pathways to Family SuccessHolyoke Family Literacy CoalitionEven Start
Holyoke Loves LearningGetting involved with Family LiteracyMFLC