Create a Summer Routine
Build healthy habits in the summer with routines! Read MorePlay, Read and Sing
Help Your Child Get Ready To ReadBabies
Amazing Animals
Babies enjoy pictures of animals and they like talking about them too. When reading a book about animals point to the pictures and name them. If your baby is pointing let him take the lead. Occasionally talk about how the animals look, where they live or how they sound. And of course, talk ... MoreToddlers
Make a Shape
Before children learn alphabet letters, they learn shapes. Before they write, they move their arms and bodies. Draw some giant shapes on the sidewalk with chalk or make some on the floor with tape. Walk around them, jump in them, drive cars over them or play in any way you like. Shapes ... MorePreschoolers
I Spy with Sounds
Put a new spin on a fun game: I Spy! Give a clue with the beginning sound of an item: "I spy something that starts with the 'buh' (B) sound." Start out easy by only using a few sounds (like B, M and S). You can add to them as your child learns more sounds. A game is a fun way ... MoreAbout Racing to Read
Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they learn how to read and write. Reading, talking, singing and playing with children from birth make learning to read easier!
Play and talk together!
5 Roads to Reading
Have fun reading books you and your child enjoy.- Play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
Create stories, play make-believe and let your child be the storyteller.- Explore lots of words with your child.
- Find print everywhere. Play with words and letters.