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Order the Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers PBS Series

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.
 

Choosing and Using Kids Books

Delight, educate, and inspire the kids you care about with children's books! Below are links to articles on how to choose and use children's books at home or school. Click below for articles and websites on:

Audio books

Authors and illustrators

Choosing books

Classroom literature guides

Creating a library

Digital books

Determining a child's reading level

Family literacy bags

Free and low-cost books

Poetry and kids

Reading aloud

Reading incentive programs

Study of children's literature

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