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This guide provides you with information on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home.

In January 2020, driven by a commitment to improve enduringly troubling national student reading performance, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) assembled state chiefs, reading experts, policy experts, and other stakeholder groups to begin an open dialogue on how state education agencies can improve reading skills for all students. This is a course based on information and ideas shared.

This resource delves into the four concrete actions that state leaders can take (including more specific steps related to each action and state examples) to support state leaders as they continue to address this critical issue, thereby giving all children the best opportunity to become successful readers and, ultimately, succeed in school.

Read a fact sheet that discusses effective reading instruction and how educators develop and implement effective instruction.

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-specifc Teacher's Guides that certifed teachers can use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children at home.

This video walks viewers through a 3-step routine for teaching new vocabulary to young children that includes lots of opportunities to practice using the new word in different ways‰ through repetition, images, sentence frames, and more. It can be adapted for at-home learning and to supplement family reading activities.

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.

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.

This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy.

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students with disabilities during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic.