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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


This guide provides you with information on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home.
Topic: Partnerships, Beginning Reading


This guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It is a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.
Topic: Beginning Reading, General Literacy, Evidence-based


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


To assist you in helping families support literacy, the Georgia Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast to create a suite of grade-specific Teacher's Guides that certified teachers can use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children at home.
Topic: Professional Development, Partnerships, Beginning Reading


The information in this Third Grade Teacher's Guide is designed to assist teachers in supporting out-of-school literacy activities that are aligned to classroom instruction, informed by student need, grounded in evidence-based practices, and facilitated by ongoing parent-teacher communication. The Teacher's Guide provides a framework for literacy support activities presented during schools' family literacy nights and parent-teacher conferences.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Partnerships


A preschool teacher discusses how she plans early literacy and language instruction, extends learning through teachable moments, and monitors student learning using a thematic unit on oceans.
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 webpage gives an overview of the Five Big Ideas in Beginning Reading.
Topic: Beginning Reading


Read this guide for ideas about how to plan instruction around achieving the Common Core reading standards.
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


Practice thinking through how to use evidence-based strategies to support struggling early readers using case study scenarios and associated STAR Resource sheets
Topic: 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


This lesson on onset rime may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.
Topic: Phonics, Beginning Reading


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



This infographic describes what variables school should consider when implementing early literacy interventions.
Topic: Beginning Reading, Interventions


This module examines how to use collaborative strategic reading in your classroom.
Topic: 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://improvingliteracy.org