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Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers learn skills everyday that will help them become readers. It's an exciting and important time of learning! Other related areas include Parent Tips, Preschool and Childcare, and Phonemic Awareness.
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Our shows on PBS
- Toddling Towards Reading
- The Roots of Reading
- Sounds & Symbols
- Empowering Parents
- Becoming Bilingual
- Reading and the Brain
- A Chance to Read
Reading roundtable
Professional development webcasts
- From Babbling To Books
- English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities
- Teaching English Language Learners to Read
- Teaching Writing
Activities
- 'Now I Know My ABCs…'
- Speech Sounds: Suggested Activities
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- Meet the Word Families
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- Reading Tips for Parents in English and 10 Other Languages
- Use a PEER When You Read Aloud
- Help Your Child With Writing
- Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do!
- Learning That's Hands-On Holiday Fun
- Emergent Readers: Look! That's My Letter!
- Easing into Preschool
- Recognizing Reading Problems
- Nursery Rhymes: Not Just for Babies
- More…
In our blogs
Sound It Out
- Reading at home: "You either get angry or you can bribe them"
- Looking at writing: An emergent writer
- Do more than read…talk!
- Looking at writing: What can we learn?
- My poor dental hygienist
- More...
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Top articles
Basics
- Speaking Is Natural; Reading and Writing Are Not
- Reading for Information
- Recognition and Response: An Early Intervening System for Young Children At-Risk for Learning Disabilities
- How We Neglect Knowledge and Why
- Young Children's Development: What to Expect
For parents
- How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?
- Oral Language: Expanding Your Child's Vocabulary
- Waiting Rarely Works: Late Bloomers Usually Just Wilt
- Ready to Read: Heading for the Classroom
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
For teachers
- Vocabulary Development with ELLs
- Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten
- Waiting Rarely Works: Late Bloomers Usually Just Wilt
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- Speech Sounds: Assessment Tip
By age
By skill
Milestones
Early intervention for LD
- RTI Goes to Pre-K
- Recognition and Response: An Early Intervening System for Young Children At-Risk for Learning Disabilities
Comprehension strategies
FAQs
Research
- Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
- Early Reading Acquisition and its Relation to Reading Experience and Ability 10 Years Later
In our LearningStore
- Early Literacy in Action
- Literacy for Young Children
- Launching Young Readers: Toddling Toward Reading
