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Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

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For Librarians

Resources developed in partnership with: The American Library Association (ALA)

Librarians and literacy

Libraries have a long history of supporting literacy through books and programs for children and adults. Reading Rockets is pleased to tap into this tradition of outreach by presenting the resources below for schools and public libraries.

Toolkit for librarians

This free toolkit, developed by Reading Rockets and the Association for Library Services to Children and the Association of School Librarians of the American Library Association, contains resources to make it easy for librarians to offer community forums, discussions, and workshops for parents, teachers, and caregivers on how to support children's reading achievement.

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Included in the kit are video modules that show what works in teaching and encouraging kids to become readers. This toolkit can also be purchased from the Reading Rockets store.

Toolkit video modules

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A welcoming library

In this segment from Becoming Bilingual, part of our PBS Launching Young Readers series, join librarian Laura Kleinmann and students from the Oyster Bilingual School library. Watch video clip >