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Reading Partners - Resources for Families

Reading Partners has gathered a wide variety of early literacy resources for parents, including a series of videos to help parents teach and support...

Foundational Literacy for Families: Early Reading

Learning to read is fundamental to children’s success in school, and the process of developing emergent literacy skills related to future reading...

Fostering Early Literacy: The Role of Reading Aloud in Young Children's Educational Journey for Parents & Families

The Imagination Library fulfills Indiana's desire to make sure children have access to books at home and develop a love for reading before they ever...

Google Docs: Cloze Reading with Drop Down Menus

In this resource from Eric Curts of Control Alt Achieve, discover how to use Google Docs drop-down menus to create Cloze Reading Activities.

Reading Rockets for Parents

Find tips for parents, explore children's authors, and get answers to frequently asked questions at Reading Rockets' page for parents.

What Kids Are Reading

Books vary in popularity from year to year, from state to state, and from one grade level to the next. Renaissance has identified these...

Article of the Week: Deeper Reading and Writing

If you've been looking for a new way to help readers and writers build their critical thinking skills, look no further than Kelly Gallagher's...

Effective Strategies that Boost Reading Comprehension

This multimedia overview highlights key research findings and specific practice implications for comprehension strategy instruction.

Progress Monitoring Reading: Shifting From Documenting Failure to Accelerating Growth

Progress monitoring (PM) with curriculum-based measures is a powerful tool for using data to change reading outcomes. But common misconceptions about...

Diagnostic Data Part 1: How to Use Diagnostic Reading Assessments Within a Classroom

This session will model how to use diagnostic reading and spelling assessments to identify next steps in our literacy instruction. The focus will be...

Weekly Reading Practice Routine

In the instructional routine outlined in this resource, students work to improve their fluency daily. Additionally, they work to improve their...

Your Brain on Books: Reading in a Digital World

This session will discuss the reading brain, what that means in a world with increasingly ubiquitous technology, and the ways that impacts how we...

Fostering Early Literacy: The Role of Reading Aloud in Young Children's Educational Journey for Educators

The Imagination Library fulfills Indiana's desire to make sure children have access to books at home and develop a love for reading before they ever...

Family Moments: Talking Reading, and Singing Together

A collaboration between Too Small To Fail and Sesame Street, this is a parent and caregiver guide to support infant learning through talking,...

Why Reading Aloud to Kids Helps Them Thrive

This article from PBS Kids Parents provides guidance and details the benefits of reading aloud to children. 

Family Reading Reset

A blog post that provides six strategies for families to "reset" students' interest in and joy of reading.

Strategies to Help Students Go Deeper When Reading Digitally

Students may have the ability to read effectively on paper, but these skills do not necessarily transfer when students read in a digital...

Make Reading Epic!: An Introduction

Create a classroom account for Epic! books. It is a free digital library for students and classroom teachers with thousands of books that can be...

Virtual Reading Logs in Epic!

Epic! is a free digital library for students and classroom teachers with thousands of leveled books that can be selected based on personalized...

Diagnostic Data Part 2: How to Use Diagnostic Reading Assessments with Individual Students

Now that you’re familiar with what diagnostic assessments are and how to use them, this session will demonstrate how to use diagnostic data to...