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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.

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.

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 webpage gives an overview of the Five Big Ideas in Beginning Reading.

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

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.

Get some ideas about how troubleshoot early reading instruction by reading about these realistic scenarios.

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.