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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.
Topic: Beginning Reading


Read a fact sheet that discusses effective reading instruction and how educators develop and implement effective instruction.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Language Development


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.
Topic: Phonics, Reading Disabilities, Beginning Reading


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.
Topic: Writing, Language Development, Beginning Reading


Learn how to deliver activities that focus on alphabet letters and sounds; download related activities; and find supporting materials.
Topic: Phonics, Beginning Reading



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


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.
Topic: Vocabulary, Language Development, Beginning Reading


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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Partnerships


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.
Topic: Phonemic Awareness, Beginning Reading



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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Language Development


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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Language Development, Spanish


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.
Topic: Beginning Reading


Watch a video illustrating what typical kindergarten reading looks like in action.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Phonics


Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.
Topic: Fluency with Text, Beginning Reading


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.
Topic: Comprehension, Beginning Reading, Vocabulary


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.
Topic: Comprehension, Beginning Reading


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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Partnerships, General Literacy



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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Language Development


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.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Language Development, Spanish


Explore phonological awareness on this webpage through several interactive games and videos aimed at pre-kindergarten through second grade students.
Topic: Remote Learning, Beginning Reading


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The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2023 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://improvingliterarcy.org