Bilingual parent tips about at-home literacy activities
Written especially for parents, Growing Readers provides monthly tips for raising strong readers and writers. In this section, you’ll find a wide range of simple activities to encourage word play as well as strengthen your child’s fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, and writing skills.
All of the Growing Readers tip sheets here are available in English and Spanish, with downloadable PDFs for printing and sharing!
Early Literacy Development
Building Reading Stamina
Vocabulary
Building Your Child’s Vocabulary
Ed Tech and Digital Media
Children and Digital Media: Rethinking Parent Roles
Activities
Creating Holiday Learning Traditions
Activities
Environmental Print
Fluency
Fluency Matters
Activities
Got a Newspaper? You’ve Got Learning!
Activities
Grocery Store Literacy
Common Core Standards
Kids Who Blog
Background Knowledge
Making Reading Relevant: Read, Learn, and Do!
Activities
Nursery Rhymes: Not Just for Babies!
Early Literacy Development
Playing with Word Sounds: Stretch and Shorten
Activities
Playing with Words: Riddles
Activities
Poems at Home
Activities
Putting Your Family Calendar to Work
Activities
Riding and Reading
Vocabulary
Talking Counts!
Background Knowledge
The Night Before the Museum
Spelling and Word Study
Use Words to Teach Words
Early Literacy Development
Beginning Readers: Look! I Can Read This!
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