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The following websites will help you learn more about early literacy, as well as find additional activities to do with your child. Born Learning www.bornlearning.org
On the Ages and Stages page, you can click on the age of your child and it will
give you information on topics such as nutrition, sleep, and growth development,
as well as how to nurture your child with literacy activities.
Get Ready to Read www.getreadytoread.org
The online or print screening tool will reveal your child’s progress toward mastering
three core areas of early literacy—print knowledge, emergent writing, and linguistic
awareness. There are also animated online games, activity cards, and checklists
to create a “literacy friendly home or classroom.”
International Reading Association www.reading.org
The section on Parent Resources provides printable brochures such as Getting Your
Child Ready to Read, and Supporting Your Beginning Reader.
National Center for Family Literacy http://www.famlit.org/free-resources/activities/house/
The Early Literacy House is filled with ideas of activities you can do with your
child, in every room of your house.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development www.nichd.nih.gov
Go to the Publications link, and select “literacy” as the keyword. Several publications
will appear that are free to order, or download and print. These were done by the
National Institute for Literacy and include, “A Child Becomes A Reader,” “Literacy
Begins At Home: Teach Them to Read,” “Shining Stars: Toddlers Get Ready to Read,”
and “Shining Stars: Preschoolers Get Ready to Read.”
Parents’ Action For Children www.parentsaction.org
Formerly I Am Your Child, this organization was founded by Rob and Michele Reiner
in an effort to inform parents about “the critical importance the prenatal period
through the first early years plays in a child’s healthy brain development.”
Reach Out and Read www.reachoutandread.org
This website provides information from pediatricians about the importance of reading
aloud, and includes excellent charts of Developmental Milestones in several different
languages.
Reading Rockets www.readingrockets.org
A free subscription will bring you access to videos and podcasts, booklists, tips
on helping struggling readers, free reading guides, and topics from A to Z that
offer help.
Reading Is Fundamental www.rif.org
Go to “Literacy Resources” and click on “Activities”, where you’ll find a printable
monthly calendar with simple and inexpensive literacy-based activities between caregiver
and child for each day. They also offer a multicultural booklist, and articles for
parents about reading aloud.
Washington Learning Systems www.walearning.com
Click on “Literacy Resources,” and you’ll find free, reproducible activities for
infants and preschoolers, in Spanish and English. Each activity is followed by tips
for success and ways to make it more challenging. You’ll also find “on-the-go” activities
for parents to do in the car, or on a walk, and those are translated into Spanish,
Mandarin, Vietnamese, Somali, Russian, and Burmese.
Zero To Three www.zerotothree.org
In the section “Behavior and Development” you will find the “Tips and Tools” about
early language and literacy, including the Beginnings of Literacy, Learning to Write
and Draw, Tips for Choosing Books, Songs, Rhymes and Fingerplays in Spanish and
English, and information about how children learn multiple languages.
Print These! Click on the following, and print out these simple flyers and charts that will help you help your child. It Takes Just a Minute: Read With Your Child http://www.famlit.org/NELP/pdf/Read%20With%20Your%20Child.pdf Lea junto con su hijo http://www.famlit.org/NELP/pdf/SPANISH%20Read%20With%20Your%20Child.pdf Converse con su hijo http://www.famlit.org/NELP/pdf/SPANISH%20Talk%20With%20Your%20Child.pdf Developmental Milestones of Early Literacy http://www.reachoutandread.org/FileRepository/RORmilestones_English.pdf Metas del Desarrollo Temprano de la Lectura y Escritura http://www.reachoutandread.org/FileRepository/RORmilestones_Spanish.pdf Reading Tips for Parents http://www.readingrockets.org/article/18935/ Family Guide (bilingual in English and Spanish) http://www.readingrockets.org/guides/readingrockets/ |
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