Get Ready to Read!
An early literacy program from the National Center for Learning Disabilities designed to bring an easy-to-use screening tool to parents and early childhood professionals and to ensure that every child becomes a successful reader. The site also includes free activity cards and online games.
For more information, go to: http://www.getreadytoread.org

Reading Rockets Family Guide
Offers bilingual guide (Spanish and English) with helpful tips for parents to help their children read.
For more information: http://www.readingrockets.org/pdf/family_guide.pdf

Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
Provides a one-page printable guide from Reading Rockets about how parents can help their preschoolers prepare for reading.
For more information: http://www.pbs.org/launchingreaders/pdfs/tips_1.pdf

Things to Print from Between the Lions
Contains pictures to color, numbers and letters, stories, books and bookmarks.
For more information: http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/.

Scholastic's Read and Rise
Offers a new early literacy magazine to improve reading achievement among African-American children.
For more information: http://www.nul.org/pdf/2003guide.pdf

Early Readers
Provides a feature which allows people to hear how a typical early reader sounds.
For more information: http://www.pbs.org/parents/issuesadvice/talkingandreading/
literacyupdates/readingdevelopment/kindergarten.html

Talk about Reading
Provides parents with research-based advice on preparing young children to learn to read.
For more information: http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=38

Literacy Tips
Offers tips on engaging young readers.
For more information: http://pbskids.org/lions/tips/

Reading Guide
Contains information about reading in both English and Spanish.
For more information: http://www.latimes.com/extras/readingby9/parentguide/

A Child Becomes a Reader
Offers two guides for parents to help their children become stronger readers.
For more information: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading

The National Reading Panel
Presents information on over two year's worth of research and hearings.
For more information: http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/

Preventing Reading Difficulties
Offers the full text of a report from the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children.
For more information: http://www.nap.edu/html/prdyc/

Reading and LD
Offers a briefing paper on reading and LD
For more information: http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/factshe/fs17.pdf

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