Literacy Curriculum
Reach Out and Read leverages the pediatric well-child visit and a significant partnership with a clinician network to foster early literacy and healthy relationships among parents, infants, and young children. Reach Out and read annually serves 4.4 million children and families throughout the United States of America.
This resource offers insight into the partnership as well as literary, literacy, and research resources to better advocate for early childhood well-being.
Browse free books for kids and download free eBooks online in a variety of subjects and genres. Choose from over 5,000 free eBooks for kids from Barnes & Noble.
Your child has started school but still needs you to read to him or her at home. Your child will do better in school, and you’ll enjoy the time spent together. Here are helpful tips for reading to and with young children in school, kindergarten through third grade.
Sesame Street in Communities is an online community for sharing Sesame Street’s free educational resources with the adults in children’s lives.
Titles on the 2020 Summer Reading Lists were compiled and annotated by members of ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee. The lists are full of book titles to keep children engaged in reading throughout the summer. Four Summer Reading book lists are available for Birth-Preschool and grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8.
Avoid the “summer slide” and keep the spirit of curiosity alive with these informal, anytime learning resources. This collection of videos and activities encourages students in grades PreK-12 to spend the summer asking questions, spinning stories, and exploring all the ways that learning can be fun.
Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade. This webpage also includes some ideas for helping to make the summer educational – and fun!
A Family Educator Learning Accelerator (FELA) Toolkit offers an overview of our family engagement methodology and provides templates to get you started
Springboard Connect is a web-app that provides tips, resources, and reminders to support parents as reading coaches to their children. Families can set goals, practice strategies, and track progress.
This parent guide of sample ideas was designed to help you grow your child into a strong reader. You don’t have to be a teacher or a reading specialist. But start as early as you can, even before kindergarten begins, and practice often. And don’t hold back from making it fun.
Engage students with Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, a PBS KIDS series based on the Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos. The show follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina, and their friend Brad as they travel back in time to meet real life historical figures when they were kids.
Use these video clips, teaching tips, and historical figure biosketches to support students’ social-emotional, literacy, and social studies skills.
You can use this free printable for scavenger hunts over and over again with any books your students are reading. It’s a fun way to encourage deeper reading.