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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.

The Teacher's Guide complements and extends the practice guide by providing step-by-step guidance for teachers to support families in practicing foundational reading skills at home.

The Georgia Department of Education created this guide for kindergarten teachers with information on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade for teachers and administrators.

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.