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Ways to Support Early Literacy at Home and at School

  • Creating Successful Readers by Developing Phonological Awareness
  • Helping Your Child Become a Better Reader
  • Helping Your Child Learn to Read
  • Teaching Our Youngest

Note: The following titles and descriptions of each topic were taken from the individual websites.

Creating Successful Readers by Developing Phonological Awareness Skills:
Suggestions for Parents and Teachers

http://www.nasponline.org/publications/cq294successfulreaders.html
Suggests activities to promote pre-reading skill development.

Helping Your Child Become a Reader
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/reader/index.html
Features dozens of fun activities parents can use to build the language skills of young children (infants through age 6). Includes a reading checklist, typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.

Helping Your Child Learn to Read: A Parent Guide Preschool Through Grade 3
http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first2.html
Tells what parents can do at home to help young children become better readers. Also, describes what parents should expect to see at school.

Teaching Our Youngest
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/early/teachingouryoungest/index.html
How to help children develop their language abilities, increase their knowledge, become familiar with books, learn letters and sounds, recognize numbers, and learn to count.
Table of Contents:

1. Title Page
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction
4. Creating a Learning Environment for Young Children
5. Reading Aloud to Children
6. Developing Listening and Speaking Skills
7. Teaching About the Sounds of Spoken Language
8. Teaching about Print
9. Teaching about Books
10. Teaching about Letters
11. Building Children's Background Knowledge and Thinking Skills
12. Teaching about Numbers and Counting
13. Checking Children's Progress
14. Communicating with Parents and Caregivers
15. Some Helpful Terms to Know
16. Suggested Reading
17. 7 Super Things Parents and Caregivers Can Do
18. 7 cosas geniales que los padres y los cuidadores pueden hacer

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