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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.

Developed by the Alabama Department of Education, this document describes children's stages of literacy skills, and what teachers and families can do to support reading development.

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.

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.