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"Early reading skills provide the foundation for children's academic success." --Lonigan, et al., 1999 What We Know \| Activities \| Special Needs
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What We Know	Age Level:
The Beginnings of Literacy	0-3 years
Growing Up to Read	0-4 years
Early Literacy Learning can be promoted through Experiences with Print and Language	0-5 years
Preventing Reading Difficulties before Kindergarten	0-5 years
A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents	0-5 years
Ready to Read: Building Skills Through Early Care and Education	0-5 years
Understanding Early Literacy	0-5 years
Literacy, Language and emotional development	0-5 years
Father’s Role in Children’s Academic Achievement and Early Literacy	0-5 years
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning	0-6 years
Teaching Our Youngest	0-6 years
Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy	0-8 years
Children and Books: Begin the Connection Early	0-8 years
Phonics and Whole Language Learning: A Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading	0-8 years
Born to Read: How to Raise a Reader	0-8 years
Start Early, Finish Strong: How To Help Every Child Become a Reader	0-8 years
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success	0-8 years
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children	0-8 years
Addressing the Literacy Needs of Emergent and Early Readers	0-8 years
Reading and the Brain (video)	0-8 years
Early Literacy Instruction: Research Applications in the Classroom	0-8 years
Big Dreams: A Family Book about Reading	0-8 years
Podcasts for Dads	0-8 years
Literacy Life Span Matrix	0- adult
Shining Stars: Toddlers Get Ready to Read	1-2 years
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers	2-5 years
Early Reading and Scientifically-Based Research	2-6 years
Literacy Milestones	3-4 years
Preschool Teacher's Self-Reported Beliefs And Practices About Literacy Instruction	3-5 years
Emergent Literacy: Synthesis of the Research	3-5 years
What Young Children Can Learn about Reading and Writing Before They Go to School	3-5 years
Shining Stars: Preschoolers Get Ready to Read	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Phonological Awareness Training	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Shared Book Reading	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Interactive Shared Book Reading	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Dialogic Reading	3-5 years
What Works Clearinghouse: Using Interactive and Dialogic Reading	3-5 years
Literacy standards for preschool learners	3-6 years
Phonological - Sound Awareness Webinar (audio – video)	3-6 years
A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Accomplishments and Student Behaviors	3-8 years
Phonics, Decoding, and Word Identification Defined	3-8 years
Issues in Literacy Development	3-8 years
Learning to Read and Write: A Place to Start	3-8 years
Early Literacy Guidance, prekindergarten - grade 3 (New York)	3-8 years
Early Reading Information	3-9 years
Building a Powerful Reading Program: From Research to Practice	3-14 years
Early Literacy, A Resource For Teachers	4-8 years
The Early Literacy Project	4-8 years
Phonics (video)	4-8 years
Ways Technology Supports Early Literacy	4-12 years
Literacy Milestones	5 years
Shining Stars - Kindergarteners Learn to Read	5-6 years
Children’s Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Kindergarten and First Grade	5-7 years
The Role of Fathers in Their Child’s Literacy Development	5-8 years
Becoming real readers	5-8 years
Some Principles from the Reading Research	5-8 years
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read	5-8 years
Put Reading First	5-8 years
Strategies for Teachers and Parents	5-8 years
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading	5-8 years
Seeking Common Ground: Immerse Kids in Books and Teach Them Skills, Too	5-8 years
Text Matters in Learning to Read	5-8 years
Every Child a Reader: Applying Reading Research in the Classroom	5-8 years
Identifying Risk Factors to Prevent Difficulties	5-8 years
Components of Effective, Research-Supported Reading Instruction	5-9 years
Put Reading First: The research building blocks for teaching children to read	5-9 years
Beating the odds in teaching all children to read	5-9 years
A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents, Kindergarten Through Third Grade	5-9 years
Effective Schools/Accomplished Teachers	5-9 years
The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read	5-9 years
Differentiated Instruction for Reading	5-10 years
Understanding Early Literacy Development: A Review of Research and Practice	5-10 years
Reading Teacher Education in the Next Millennium: What your Grandmother’s Teacher didn’t know that your Granddaughter’s Teacher Should	5-10 years
Beating the Odds in Teaching all Children to Read: Lessons from Effective Schools and Exemplary Teachers	5-10 years
One Down and 80,000 to Go: Word Recognition Instruction in the Primary Grades	5-10 years
What Makes Differentiate Instruction Successful?	5-10 years
Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading	5-13 years
Six Effective Comprehension Strategies: Six Essential Reading Strategies	5-13 years
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Reading	5-14 years
Literacy Milestones	6 years
The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade	6-7 years
Learning to Read Words: Linguistic Units & Strategies	6-7 years
Literature Anthologies: The Task for First-Grade Readers	6-7 years
Text Leveling and Little Books in First-Grade Reading	6-7 years
Shining Stars: First Graders Learn to Read	6-7 years
The Four Blocks Literacy Model	6-8 years
Comprehension Instruction in the Primary Grades	6-11 years
Shining Stars - Second and Third Graders Learn to Read	7-9 years
Developing Fluency (video)	7-10 years
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Activities	Age Level:
Activities for Reading and Writing Fun: Birth to Preschool	0-3 years
READWRITENOW! Activities for Reading and Writing Fun	0-3 years
Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments. Activities for Caregivers and Young Children in English and Spanish	0-3 years
Activities to Help Your Child Learn About Language	0-6 years
Popular Story Symbols	0-7 years
Beginning Reading Instruction: Practical Ideas for Parents	0-7 years
Helping Your Child Become Better Readers – A Reading Checkup Guide	0-8 years
Helping Children Learn about Reading	0-8 years
How to Nurture a Growing Reader	0-12 years
Simple Things Families Can Do to Help Their Child Become a Reader	0-13 years
Simple Strategies for Creating Strong Readers	0-13 years
Webbing Into Literacy	2-6 years
On the Go: Language and Early Literacy activities for Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments	2-6 years
Ideas to Support Literacy Development at Home	2-7 years
Literacy Begins At Home: Teach Them to Read	2-8 years
Poems, Rhymes, Raps, Fingerplays and Chants	2-18 years
Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments. Activities for Caregivers and Young Children in English and Spanish	3-5 years
Preschool Literacy Ideas	3-5 years
Preschool Literacy Centers	3-5 years
Making Reading Part of Your Preschooler’s Everyday Life	3-5 years
One Letter Books	3-6 years
Getting Ready to Read and Write in Child Care	3-6 years
Nine Great Times to Read in Child Care Settings	3-6 years
A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy	3-7 years
Preschool and Kindergarten Activities	3-7 years
Phonemic Awareness Tasks (audio)	3-7 years
Activities for Reading and Writing Fun: Preschool- 2nd grade	3-8 years
Readquarium	3-8 years
Action Words for Consonants	3-8 years
Promoting Reading at Home	3-8 years
ABCTeach	3-8 years
Raising a Reader	3-8 years
Let's Write!	3-8 years
READWRITENOW! Beginning to Read	3-8 years
The Literacy Center	3-8 years
Parent's Calendar for Language/Reading Development	3-8 years
Sesame Street	3-8 years
Parent's Corner: Reading	3-8 years
Mrs. Alphabet’s Games	3-8 years
Creating a Literacy-Rich Classroom	3-8 years
Building Children’s Background Knowledge and Thinking Skills	3-8 years
By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go	3-8 years
Activity Books You Can Make	3-10 years
103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading	3-10 years
Guy’s Read	3-11 years
Inkless Tales	3-11 years
Illustrate a Story	3-12 years
Learning the Alphabet: Interactive Game	4-6 years
Explore the Playground of Books: Tips for Parents of Beginning Readers	4-6 years
Early Childhood Reading Strategies (video)	4-6 years
Free Reading Lesson: Counting Words in a Sentence (video)	4-6 years
Pocket Chart Ideas for Preschool and Kindergarten and First Grades	4-7 years
Starfall Learning to Read online games	4-7 years
Dad’s Playbook: Coaching Kids to Read	4-8 years
Putting Research to use: Activities to Help Children Read	4-8 years
Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybook	4-8 years
The Little Animals Activity Centre	4-8 years
Fun Reading Tips and Activities	4- 8 years
Phonological Awareness Literacy Activities	4- 9 years
Chateau Meddybemps	4-12 years
Funbrain	4-16 years
Pounce the Word matching Game	5-6 years
What’s the Word	5-6 years
Literacy Activities for Kindergarten	5-6 years
School - Home Links Reading Kit-Kindergarten Activities	5-6 years
Literacy Zone: Interactive Games	5-7 years
Learning to Read: Interactive books	5-7 years
Lesson Plans for K-2	5-7 years
Free-Reading Lessons: Sounding Out Accuracy (video)	5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Egg Carton Game (video)	5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Introducing Onset-Rime Blending (video)	5-7 years
Free Reading Lessons: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words	5-7 years
Bembo’s ABC Zoo	5-8 years
GreenTown Elementary School Theme Units	5-8 years
Rebus Rhymes	5-8 years
Every Child a Reader	5-8 years
Literacy Guidance for Parents in Multiple Languages	5-8 years
A Compact for Reading: School – Home Links	5-9 years
From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print	5-8 years
Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts	5-8 years
Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom	5-8 years
Read Along Stories and Songs	5-8 years
Helping School-Age Children Become Better Readers	5-8 years
Compact for Reading - A Reading Partnership Action Kit	5-9 years
A Handbook of Effective Instruction in Literacy	5-10 years
Words and Pictures	5-10 years
Language Arts Mini-Lessons	5-10 years
Electronic Books	5-10 years
Literacy Activities and Lesson Ideas	5-10 years
Literacy Activities for Grades K-5th	5-10 years
Graphic Organizer Templates	5-10 years
Guided Reading Helps	5-10 years
Informal Assessment (video)	5-10 years
Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction	5-10 years
Bitesize English	5-10 years
Parent Information Resource Center, Reading Activities Downloads	5-12 years
Helping Children Read to Learn	5-12 years
Internet Public Library Reading Zone	5-12 years
Word Games	5-13 years
Read, Write, Think: Lesson Plan Index	5-13 years
10 Options for Reading Outside the Book	5-13 years
Read, Write, Think Literacy Activities	5-18 years
Reading Ability Screening Test	5-18 years
Visualization Methods	5-18 years
School-Home Links Reading Kit-First Grade Activities	6-7 years
READO - A Game to Motivate Your Child to Read	6-8 years
It’s Fun to Read	6-8 years
Free Reading Lessons: Introduce Word Families (video)	6-8 years
Wall of Words	6-10 years
Calculating Reading and writing Levels	6-10 years
Increasing Motivation: Reading Tips from Kids	6-12 years
Finding Inspiration In Literature & Movies: Curriculua for Moview to Promote literacy, learning and service	6-18 years
School - Home Links Reading Kit - Second Grade Activities	7-8 years
Using Collaborative Strategic Reading	7-10 years
The Little Reading Café	7-10 years
Free Online Reading Assessment	7-15 years
School-Home Links Reading Kit-Third Grade Activities	8-9 years
Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5	8-10 years
Activities for Reading and Writing Fun: Grades Three through Six	8-12 years
Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probes	8-12 years
20 ways for parents to encourage reading	9-12 years
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Special Needs	Age Level:
Scaling-up early Childhood Intervention Literacy Learning Practices	0-5 years
Emergent Literacy: Curricular and Instructional Implications for Diverse Learners	0-5 years
Early Literacy: Braille and the Young Child	0-5 years
Adapting and Protecting Early Childhood Books	0-5 years
Emergent Literacy and Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	0-5 years
Strategies and Tools for Adapting Books	0-8 years
Reading Difficulties and Family History	0-8 years
Fostering Emergent Literacy for Children Who Require AAC	0-8 years
Tactile Symbols	0-8 years
Story Box Ideas	0-8 years
Creating Object Books for Tactile Learners	0-8 years
Tips for Parents from Top Researchers	0-8 years
Identifying Risk Factors to Prevent Difficulties	0-8 years
What Does It Mean To Use Visual Supports for Literacy?	0-8 years
Matthew’s Story (Deafblind Model Demonstration Project)	0-10 years
The Development of Language and Reading	0-10 years
Literacy Resources for Special Needs	0-14 years
Jake’s Story (Deafblind Model Demonstration Project)	0-18 years
Computer Supported Literacy Project: Preschool Emergent Literacy Classroom	2-6 years
Emergent Literacy: What Young Children Can Learn About Reading and Writing Before They Go to School	2-6 years
Adapting Literacy Activities for Young Children	2-8 years
Visual Supports for Literacy (video)	2-8 years
Literacy Activities for Children with Special Needs	3-5 years
Becoming Bilingual: Facilitating English Literacy Development Using ASL in PreSchool	3-6 years
Relative Effectiveness of Dialogic, Interactive and Shared Reading Interventions	3-6 years
Early Literacy for Inner-City Children: The Effects of Reading and Writing Interventions in English and Spanish During the Preschool Years	3-6 years
Predictors of and Interventions Associated with Later Literacy Accomplishments	3-8 years
Parameters of Literacy for Children with Developmental Disabilities	3-8 years
Get Ready to Read!	3-8 years
Issues in Emergent Literacy for Children with Language Impairments	3-8 years
Emergent Literacy of Deaf Children	3-8 years
Understanding Your Child’s Learning Differences	3-8 years
Encouraging Preliteracy Skills in Young Children with Speech and Language Disorders	3-10 years
Research-Supported Assessment-Intervention Links for Reading and Writing	3-12 years
Literacy Ideas for Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities	3-14 years
Tutorials for Assistive Technology Reading and Writing Products	3-18 years
Literacy Development for AAC Users	3-18 years
Automatic Speech for PowerPoint Presentations	3 to adult
Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader: 8 Steps for Parents	5-8 years
Seeking Help for a Struggling Reader: 7 Steps for Teachers	5-8 years
Dialect and Reading Difficulties	5-8 years
Activities for Struggling Readers	5-8 years
Guidelines for Planning and Instruction for Literacy	5-8 years
Beating the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read Literature	5-8 years
Early Reading Programs in High-Poverty Schools: Emerald Elementary Beats the Odds	5-8 years
Meeting the Literacy Needs of Struggling Readers in the Early Elementary Years	5-8 years
Reading Rock Video (understand and encourage struggling readers)	5-8 years
Empowering Parents Video (early signs of reading problems)	5-8 years
Becoming Bilingual Video (examines the challenges of teaching children to read in a new language)	5-8 years
Other Sources of Reading Difficulty	5-8 years
How to Adapt Your Teaching Strategies to Student Needs	5-8 years
Instructional Variables to Consider in Meeting Individual Needs	5-10 years
Learner Variables to Consider in Meeting Individual Needs	5-10 years
Including Readers with Special needs	5-10 years
Teaching Reading to Students who are English Language Learners	5-10 years
Why Some Children Have Difficulties Learning to Read	5-10 years
Grouping Students Who Struggle with Reading	5-10 years
Groupings that Work for Students with Disabilities	5-10 years
How to Modify your Teaching for Students with Low Organizational Skills	5-10 years
The reasons a reader struggles: specific problem reading behaviors and suggestions for possible interventions	5-10 years
What does it mean to be a struggling reader?	5-10 years
Using Technology to Improve the Literacy Skills of Students with Disabilities	5-10 years
Reading Comprehension in AAC	5-10 years
Children with Reading Disability	5-10 years
Cornerstones: Building Blocks of Literacy	5-11 years
Retelling Stories for Students who are English Language Learners	5–11 years
Dissecting Dyslexia	5-12 years
Dyslexia and the Brain: What does Current Research Tell Us?	5-12 years
Hooking Struggling Readers: Using Books They Can and Want to Read	7-12 years
Universal Design for Learning Associate Editor Column	5-13 years
Braille Bug	5-13 years
What Does It Mean to Be a Struggling Reader?	5-13 years
Misunderstood Minds	5-17 years
Using Timelines to Enhance Comprehension for Students who are English Language Learners	5-17 years
Literature Circles for Students who are English Language Learners	5-17 years
Hands-On Literacy Activities for Students who are English Language Learners	5-17 years
Using Graphic Organizers with Students who are English Language Learners	5-17 years
Early Reading Proficiency and its Relationship to Accessing the Curriculum	5-18 years
Technologies to Support Reading Comprehension in Children with Disabilities	5-18 years
Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: Helping Children With Learning Disabilities To Succeed	6-8 years
Reading Comprehension and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities	8-18 years
Improving Comprehension for Students with LD	8 years & up
Computer Supported Literacy: Reading, Writing and Referencing	All Ages
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Learning to Read

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