What strategies and programs do you recommend for teaching phonics and early literacy skills to preschoolers?

Although we can’t recommend specific reading programs, the following article lists the characteristics that all good reading programs should have:

• 9 Components of Effective, Research-Supported Reading Instruction

These next articles will give you information about early reading instruction and suggestions for helping your students develop the interest and skills to become lifelong readers:

• Reading 101: Phonics
• Learning to Read, Reading to Learn
• ABCs of Phonemic Awareness
• Tuning In to the Sounds in Words
• Making Friends with Phonemes
• Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
• How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms

This last article is geared toward parents but offers ideas for fun games to play with your students:

• By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go