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Reading Tips for Parents

A child's success as a reader begins much earlier than the first day of school. Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Parent Tips 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.

Click below to see these tips online or download them as a PDF:

Parent tips English

A downloadable handout, for parents of children in preschool to grade 3, is also available below in the following languages:

Parent tips Arabic

Find other downloadable tips and guides in our Guides section.

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Please add Japanese to your translations.

Posted by: tawhome  |  May 01, 2010 11:47 AM

Thank you for the tips. Great help. I also found a summer learning program at internet4classrooms.com

Posted by: Mr_C  |  June 04, 2010 03:33 PM

These handouts are very helpful. Could they please be made available in French? I serve a growing population of French-speaking Africans.

Posted by: Mary  |  July 23, 2010 11:09 AM

Please add Thai to your translations.

Posted by: cfleming  |  December 31, 2010 11:35 AM

Tamil and Urdu translations would also be very appreciated - I'm from a multi-cultural early years centre.

Posted by: dmills  |  January 20, 2011 02:05 PM

I'd like to see Portuguese. Do you need volunteer translators? contact jon.keller.ri@gmail.com

Posted by: Jonathan Keller  |  June 03, 2011 11:51 AM

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