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Resources for engaging parents

Active engagement with families is essential for children's learning and development and to facilitate a smooth transition from home to preschool.

Last updated 12 November 2025

Engaging parents on children's holistic development

We have designed these resources to support you in engaging parents as partners in promoting children’s holistic development.

The resources aim to help you engage parents on various aspects of children’s development, including physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth.

Each resource in this series includes:

  • A real-life scenario to help you address parents' concerns/misconceptions

  • Research-based information to strengthen parents’ buy-in

  • Practical tips for parents

In this series, you will find resources that will help parents understand the importance of

  1. Play

  2. Helping children develop healthy habits

  3. Developing soft skills such as social and emotional competencies and learning dispositions

  4. Promoting children’s creativity and imagination

  5. Fostering children’s sense of wonder and curiosity

  6. Developing language and early literacy skills

  7. Developing foundational numeracy skills

As every family is different, you can adapt these resources to suit their needs. We hope this will be useful in helping you build stronger partnerships with parents and to give children a good start in their learning journey.

Engaging parents on reading with their children

These resources help you encourage parents to read with their children.

Shared reading strengthens the parent-child bond and helps children develop in many ways. When parents read with their children, it can:

● Improve children's attention span and stimulate their imagination

● Develop their empathy for people around them

● Expose them to new people, places and cultures

● Build their interest and love for reading

This series of resources includes:

  1. Video demonstration for inviting responses and generating discussion during shared reading

  2. Reading Guide for dialogic reading strategies in English, 华文, Bahasa Melayu and தமிழ் மொழி.

  3. Additional resources and tips for parents