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National Center for Families Learning

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

National Center for Families Learning

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

University of Oregon's Center on Teaching and Learning

Use these curriculum maps to guide for teaching beginning reading.

Topic: Beginning Reading

National Institute for Literacy

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

Institute of Education Sciences

Based on the National Reading Panel Report, this handbook summarizes the panel's findings. Though it is classified as focusing on "beginning reading" here, the report touches on many aspects of beginning reading (e.g., phonics, fluency).

Topic: Beginning Reading

Doing What Works

Listen to a kindergarten teacher discuss differentiation within core instruction, including strategies for teaching English language learners.

Topic: General Literacy, Beginning Reading

Great Schools

Watch a video illustrating what typical kindergarten reading looks like in action.

Topic: Beginning Reading, Phonics

Great Schools

Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.

Topic: Fluency with Text, Beginning Reading

Great Schools

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

Great Schools

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

Iowa Reading Research Center

This document outlines the high-priority skills students need to master in each grade level (kindergarten through Grade 3).

Topic: Beginning Reading

Institute of Education Sciences

This guide describes how to provide effective literacy instruction for English language learners in the elementary grades

Topic: Beginning Reading, English Learners

SeeHearSpeak Podcast

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

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

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

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

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

Florida Center for Reading Research

These activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually.

Topic: Remote Learning, Beginning Reading

Doing What Works

This summary chart of the five essential reading components is used in Iowa schools to help teachers understand and teach the components and high priority skills identified within each component.

Topic: Beginning Reading

PBS LearningMedia

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

Doing What Works

The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) has developed instructional routines for teaching foundational reading skills in grades K-3, including phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. Included here are four routines: Kindergarten phonemic awareness, Grade 1 phonics, Grade 1 comprehension, and Grade 2 fluency.

Topic: Beginning Reading

Achieve the Core

Watch this introductory video to a seven part series on promoting foundational literacy skills in accordance with Common Core State Standards.

Topic: Beginning Reading

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