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 helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

Blog posts tagged with "Early literacy development"

Mar 28, 2012 -- Learning more about learning disabilities
Nov 11, 2011 -- When is a box not a box?
Aug 24, 2011 -- Careful watching and listening during those first few days of school
Jul 19, 2011 -- On the cusp of reading
May 23, 2011 -- Early and often
Mar 14, 2011 -- Two ideas worth spreading
Feb 8, 2011 -- Transitional kindergarten: The answer for some
Jan 11, 2011 -- Resolutions and readers
Oct 27, 2010 -- Teach handwriting. Really!
Oct 13, 2010 -- N is for No Letter of the Week
Sep 8, 2010 -- The value of mixed practice in teaching reading
Jul 12, 2010 -- Kindergarten Camp
Jan 6, 2010 -- You had a lot to say about...
Dec 1, 2009 -- Literacy Lava 3 is here!
Oct 20, 2009 -- Reading at home: "You either get angry or you can bribe them"
Aug 26, 2009 -- Looking at writing: An emergent writer
Aug 19, 2009 -- Do more than read…talk!
Jul 8, 2009 -- Looking at writing: What can we learn?
Jul 8, 2009 -- Lovely words
Jun 2, 2009 -- My poor dental hygienist
Mar 20, 2009 -- A birthday of note
Mar 9, 2009 -- Share a Story — Shape a Future blog tour
Mar 3, 2009 -- Kindergarten "red-shirting:" What about summer birthdays?
Jan 27, 2009 -- TV for tweens
Jun 3, 2008 -- The Rats of NIMH: THAT'S how people learn to read?
Oct 23, 2007 -- 23 words per minute
Apr 3, 2007 -- Space, AKA Concept of Word
Mar 12, 2007 -- Cats on Mats: Beginning readers
Feb 13, 2007 -- Should she stay or should she go (to kindergarten): Part 2
Jan 18, 2007 -- Should she stay or should she go? (to kindergarten)
Jan 4, 2007 -- Talk to your baby, narrate what you're doing, talk to your baby, words, words, words!

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