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Reading Tip Sheets for Parents

Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in eleven languages!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood Espanol and tagged with early literacy fluency phonemic awareness phonics literacy reading on January 15, 2010 #

Our Book by Us!

Download this book and use it with your child to create a wonderful masterpiece! We’ve created this book to give every adult and child a fun way to spend time together, even if you only have five minutes a day.

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American Academy of Pediatrics: Literacy Toolkit, Sharing Books Tip Sheets

Conversations between parents, mothers and grandmothers, parents and child care providers, parents and children. They are each talking about the important matters discussed in the doctor's office including vaccines, sleep issues, speech development, and so many other topics that are essential to a child's development. Why add another topic to the list of things we talk about with parents? Why talk about books and pre-literacy development? Why provide books or urge visits to the local library? There are many reasons ...

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Just One More Book

Just One More Book is a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes and celebrates literacy and great children’s books. Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite children’s books. We also feature weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and experts and enthusiasts in the areas of children’s literature and literacy as well as listener-submitted audio reviews. Through this podcast and its website, we are building a lively, interactive community linking children’s book authors, illustrators, readers (children, parents, educators and librarians) and publishers. Episodes range in length from 5 to 30 minutes and can be played directly from our web page or downloaded to an iPod for listening on the go.

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Reading Skills Pyramid

The Reading Skills Pyramid visually depicts the patterns of concept acquisition that children follow in becoming successful readers up through third grade. We recommend a high level of parent involvement in this process by providing high quality educational materials, establishing a pattern of daily reading, creating a rich language environment, and discussing your child's progress with teachers and following up on their recommendations. While most children follow the same sequence of acquiring literacy skills, they do so at their own pace. All children are different: if you have questions or concerns about your child's progress in reading, contact his or her teacher.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with reading early literacy literacy phonemic awareness phonics on January 14, 2010 #

National Institute of Literacy Early Childhood Resources

Copies can be ordered by downloading or calling EDPubs at 1-800-228-8813 (TDD/TTY1-877-576-7734), emailing edpubs@inet.ed.gov, or faxing 1-301-470-1244.

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Early Literacy

Early literacy is one term used to describe the stage of literacy development occurring before children are able to read and write. From infancy, children begin to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that influence lifelong reading and writing behaviors. These early literacy experiences help children discover the purposes of, and relationships between, speech and print.

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Summer Fun With Reading

Reading with or to a child over the summer will help keep a child's reading skills alive and prevent the loss of reading skills over the summer. This booklet provides many tips and ideas on how to do this. This book is also available in hard copy for $.75 each.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with summer activities early literacy literacy reading on July 29, 2009 #

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Tips for Reading with Your Children

Tips on literacy from the Minnesota Humanities Commission.

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How to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader - Spanish version

Your role as a parent is to help your child experience joy in reading and to help her begin to view reading as a pleasurable experience. You can also help your child become an independent reader through the praise and encouragement you provide while he is reading. It is critical that your child realizes success while reading. This booklet will help you to help your child become a better reader through offering guidance and giving you tips on how to encourage and support your child’s reading. This is the Spanish version.

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