Topic: Beginning Reading
Language difficulties and internalizing problems, such as anxiety and depression, often co-occur in children, but it is not known why. This study looked at data from Norwegian siblings aged 5 to 8 years old and found that this co-occurrence is mainly due to family factors (e.g., genetics, shared environment).
This toolkit helps teachers and families understand what the alphabetic principle and phonics are and how to support a child's development of these important reading skills.
Participar en experiencias de alfabetización en el hogar puede desarrollar la capacidad de lectura, la comprensión y las habilidades lingüísticas de su hijo. Las actividades en las que puede participar en casa incluyen: lectura conjunta, dibujo, canto, narración de cuentos, recitación, juegos y rimas. Puede adaptar las actividades a la edad y el nivel de habilidad de su hijo, y puede incorporar la tecnología en sus oportunidades de aprendizaje.
Aprender a leer es difícil y no sucede naturalmente. Requiere instrucción explícita y sistemática, lo cual es especialmente importante para los lectores con dificultades. Aprender a leer implica muchas habilidades diferentes que deben enseñarse a su hijo. La instrucción en conciencia fonológica, fonética, fluidez, vocabulario y comprensión ayudará a su hijo a aprender a leer.
You can coach your child’s literacy learning at home. This means interacting with and guiding your child so he or she grows and succeeds.
This toolkit helps teachers and families understand what fluency is and how to support a child’s development of fluency with text.
Ayude a su hijo a practicar habilidades lingüísticas y comprender ideas durante la vida cotidiana.
Ayude a su hijo a practicar habilidades de alfabetización temprana y comprender ideas durante la vida cotidiana.
Ayude a su hijo a practicar los sonidos del habla y las letras durante la vida cotidiana.
Hacer preguntas puede ayudar a su hijo a comprender lo que lee.
Ayudar a su hijo con los sonidos del habla apoya el éxito temprano en la lectura.
Cuatro consejos para usar al leer con su hijo.
Ayudar a su hijo a separarse y conectar sonidos para pronunciar palabras apoya el éxito temprano en la lectura.
Las dificultades se pueden detectar temprano, haga estas preguntas si tiene inquietudes sobre el progreso de su hijo en la escuela.
Preguntas para hacer sobre las evaluaciones y la instrucción de su hijo en la escuela.
Preguntas para hacer sobre las habilidades de lectura de su hijo.
Preguntas para hacer sobre la instrucción de lectura de su hijo en la escuela.
In this tutorial, you will learn evidence-based information about your child’s reading development from preschool through adolescence, all in an interactive online experience.
Learning to read is difficult and does not happen naturally. It requires explicit and systematic instruction, which is especially important for struggling readers. Learning to read involves many different skills that must be taught to your child. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension will help your child learn to read.
This toolkit helps parents and families understand the many different skills involved with teaching your child to learn to read and how to support your child's reading development at school and home.
This tool provides personalized resources aligned with reading, writing and language skills for beginning readers.
Puede entrenar el aprendizaje de alfabetización de su hijo en casa. Esto significa interactuar con su hijo y guiarlo para que crezca y tenga éxito.
This toolkit helps teachers and families understand the difference between phonemic and phonological awareness and how to support a child's development of these important reading skills.
Phonological awareness is like an umbrella. Rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, onset and rime, and phonemic awareness all exist under this umbrella with phonemic awareness being the most advanced skill of phonological awareness.
Four tips to use when reading with your child.
Questions to ask about your child's reading instruction at school.
Questions to ask about your child's assessments and instruction at school.
Helping your child with speech sounds supports early reading success.
Asking questions can help your child understand what she reads.
Helping your child stretch apart and connect sounds to sound out words supports early reading success.
Questions to ask about your child's reading skills.
Difficulties can be spotted early, ask these questions if you have concerns about your child's progress at school.
Help your child practice early literacy skills and understand ideas during everyday life.
Help your child practice speech sounds and letters during everyday life.
Help your child practice language skills and understand ideas during everyday life.
This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Idaho State Department of Education, helps parents and families use everyday time together as an opportunity for learning and building reading skills.
Despite the disparities in education, research has demonstrated that all students, regardless of racial, ethnic, economic, or learning differences, can meet grade-level expectations for reading achievement with systematic and explicit instruction.
This toolkit helps parents and families take part in literacy experiences at home to develop children’s reading and language skills.
Taking part in literacy experiences at home can develop your child’s reading ability, comprehension, and language skills. Activities that you can engage in at home include: joint reading, drawing, singing, storytelling, reciting, game playing, and rhyming. You can tailor activities to your child’s age and ability level, and can incorporate technology into your learning opportunities.
Effective reading instruction incorporates five components including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. These five components of reading are all linked. Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and vocabulary all build up to reading comprehension, which is the goal of reading.
This Educator’s Toolbox, developed in Partnership with The Reading League Journal, describes some best practices that educators can use in their classrooms to help ELs acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically.
This Educator’s Toolbox, developed in Partnership with The Reading League Journal, uses an infographic to explain the critical role that phonological awareness plays in learning to read. You will learn what phonological awareness is, how to effectively teach phonological awareness to prepare early readers, and how this and other NCIL infographics can be used to promote awareness and understanding of evidence-based literacy practices.
Spotlight on South Carolina Series
Sally Baker from the Family Connection of South Carolina discusses how FCSC designed trainings using NCIL’s Supporting Your Child’s Literacy Development tutorial and facilitator’s guide and who the trainings reached.
Spotlight on South Carolina Series
Sally Baker from the Family Connection of South Carolina discusses what FCSC learned as a result of training parents and professionals using NCIL’s Supporting Your Child’s Literacy Development tutorial and facilitator’s guide.
Spotlight on South Carolina Series
Sally Baker from the Family Connection of South Carolina discusses what happened when FCSC trained parents using NCIL’s Supporting Your Child’s Literacy Development tutorial and facilitator’s guide.
Spotlight on South Carolina Series
Sally Baker from the Family Connection of South Carolina discusses what happened when FCSC trained professionals using NCIL’s Supporting Your Child’s Literacy Development tutorial and facilitator’s guide.
Beginning Reading Resources
This guide provides you with information on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home.
Topic: Partnerships, Beginning Reading
Help your preschooler identify syllables in spoken words by clapping for each syllable.
Topic: Beginning Reading
Listen to a kindergarten teacher discuss differentiation within core instruction, including strategies for teaching English language learners.
Topic: General Literacy, Beginning Reading
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
