Get Ready To Read

 

Get Ready to Read!
Filled with advice for parents and activities for kids!
A Rhyme A Week
Nursery rhymes help to build phonics awareness. This site identifies rhymes that contain 500 out of the 1400 words commonly spoken by children in primary grades.
Getting Ready to Read
Advice, needed skills, and activities are available through Scholastic Books’ web site!
Ready to Read?
Parents can get advice from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on reading readiness and how to help their children succeed at this lifelong skill!
Reading Rockets
It's summertime and the reading is easy! Hit the road with your favorite audio books or head to the library and join a free summer reading program. It's all here on Reading Rockets, the super stellar reading web site for parents and educators.
Colorin' Colorado
Information, activities, and advise for Spanish-speaking parents and educators of English language learners.
Starfall
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.
Game Goo
A home for fun, stick-with-you educational games that help develop early reading skills identified as important language arts building blocks in state curriculum standards.
Partnership for Reading
The Partnership for Reading website offers a database containing abstracts of approximately 460 research studies related to the teaching of reading in grades K-3. These studies have met high standards of research. Browse through the abstracts by category (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension, computer instruction, and teacher education) or search for a topic or author of interest.
Helping Your Child Become a Reader (U.S. Department of Education)
Activities for children from infancy through age 6