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Parent tips for easy reading and writing activities to do with your child. Part of our Growing Readers series.

Browse our library of evidence-based teaching strategies, learn more about using classroom texts, find out what whole-child literacy instruction looks like,...

There is no research showing that books are superior to excerpts (or vice versa) in developing reading ability. Schools can combine both excerpts and whole...

An introduction to the most widely tested models — the simple view of reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope — as well as newer models that seek to...

Cultural heritage months and reading celebrations like NEA’s Read Across America fill the calendar year with joyful ways to explore multicultural stories,...

Discover some of our favorite picture books for kids that celebrate sharing, community, and family. You’ll also find books about the history of our...

Browse this collection of literacy quotes — for inspiration and for sharing.

Have you ever watched a young child’s face light up to recognize a word or chime in at a familiar part of a favorite story? How do we kids turn into active,...

Reading problems are common, but they can have different causes and warning signs. Sometimes a problem is simple and quick to solve while others may require...

Summarizing teaches students how to identify the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas...

Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and...

Written especially for parents, Growing Readers provides monthly tips for raising strong readers and writers. All of our tip sheets are available in English...

Learn more about the value of using decodable books in phonics instruction to reinforce your students’ decoding skills and reading fluency.

Understanding text structure is key to reading comprehension and also helps strengthen writing skills. In this section you’ll learn about the 5 most common...

Launching Young Readers is a public television series designed for teachers, parents, caregivers, and anyone else interested in helping children learn to read....

Explore how to create a welcoming classroom for your ELLs, specific strategies that support bilingual children in each area of literacy development, and tips...

A scope and sequence provides a list of skills to be taught, a sequence for teaching them, and guidelines for when to expect student mastery.

There are so many wonderful new books for young children just waiting to be discovered. Here’s a sampling of stories about families and friendship, mysteries...

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Talking to and reading with your child are two terrific ways to help them hear and read new words. Conversations and questions about interesting words are...

Identifying a reading problem is a challenge without a sense for what typical literacy development looks like. Find out what language accomplishments are...

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Paragraph shrinking is a strategy that makes the process of summarizing explicit. It gives students an easy-to-learn set of steps to find the main idea.

In one school day, an elementary school teacher will instruct children in reading, math, science, social studies, and more. Children should be reading and...