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This booklet describes activities that parents can do with their children to improve reading skills at specific ages from kindergarten through third grade.

Read a fact sheet that discusses effective reading instruction and how educators develop and implement effective instruction.

This article gives ideas for giving young children with learning disabilities opportunities to practice the skills they are taught. Ideas include playing games using newly learned letters and words; finding numbers, letters and words in everyday items; and games that provide practice with numbers, letters, words and concepts.

This Reading is Fundamental resource offers suggestions for play activities to help young children build language, thinking, and physical skills that they will use to develop early writing skills.

Learn how to deliver activities that focus on alphabet letters and sounds; download related activities; and find supporting materials.

This booklet shares family common goals about literacy for their children along with actions to take that match the goals.

This video shows a kindergartener demonstrating how to find a word's meaning. Watch as she defines a word using context and then uses the glossary to check her guess.

This tool is developed with consideration of Colorado's READ Act and with the current research into how children learn to read. It is not a condemnation of any program or meant to dismiss or demean any program and should be used as a dialogue tool. A link to a generic tool is also included.

Learn how to use games involving the concept of a word in whole-class, small-group, and individual instructional contexts; download related activities, and find recommended books for practice.

Read a guide that provides tips on how to grow reading skills from birth to age eight. The guide will help parents keep their shared learning activities with their children fun and part of their everyday routine.

Read a guide that provides tips on how to grow reading skills from birth to age eight in Spanish. The guide will help parents keep their shared learning activities with their children fun and part of their everyday routine.

This playbook talks about the five components of reading, games to play with kids to develop their literacy skills, and shares 20 stories of Dads who have helped their kids learn to read.

Watch a video illustrating what typical kindergarten reading looks like in action.

Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.

Watch a video showing kindergarteners demonstrate that they understand what they have read. Watch as they tell what they learned from their book, and listen to how they connect what they have read to what they already know.

In this video, a kindergartener demonstrates that he understands what he reads. Watch as he answers questions about his book and points to evidence in the book to support his thinking.

Maya's Book Nook has a mission to promote language and literacy skills through diverse children's literature. This SeeHearSpeak podcast features its founder, Dr. Lakeisha Johnson. Listen to her talk about the inspiration for Maya's Book Nook and the importance of community literacy partnerships.

This guide provides tips on using apps together with your family, real life examples, information on how to find and choose the apps that best fit your family's needs and ways that apps can support children's healthy development and learning, and links to other information and resources.

This guide provides tips on using apps together with your family, real life examples, information on how to find and choose the apps that best fit your family's needs and ways that apps can support children's healthy development and learning, and links to other information and resources.

Explore phonological awareness on this webpage through several interactive games and videos aimed at pre-kindergarten through second grade students.