IEL Resources
- Tip Sheets:
- Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Getting Ready to Read!
- Getting Ready to Read and Write in Child Care
- The Gift of Words: Reading and Games
- Literacy across the Preschool Curriculum
- Out and About with Preschoolers: Literacy Activities
- The Power of the Pen: Let Children Choose Writing Centers!
- Sharing Books with Your Preschooler
- Talk, Listen, and Learn
- Using Predictable Books with Young Children
- What’s Next? Predictions at Story Time
- Young Authors at Work: Literature Response Journals
- Young Authors at Work: Story Dictations
- Toolkit: Helping Young Children Get Ready to Read
- Q&A: Sharing Informational Books with Young Children
- Videos:
- Blog: Repeated Readings Can Build Literacy Skills
- Podcast: Language and Literacy in Inclusive Early Childhood Programs
Web Resources
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Adventure in a Box
Source: The Center for Early Literacy Learning
This article provides information on how to create a box filled with inspiring writing materials that can help a budding writer build confidence and skills. The Center for Early Literacy Learning offers other Practice Guides for use with Parents.
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Alphabet Matching
Source: Reading Rockets
This provides information, videos and resources for teaching the alphabet. Teachers can help young students develop the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds through lots of fun activities that help students explore the alphabet letters and sounds.
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Big Ideas in Beginning Reading: Alphabetic Principle
Source: Center on Teaching and Learning (University of Oregon)
This page provides information on the alphabetic principle, including the definition of the principle and the progression of regular word reading and irregular word reading.
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Get Ready to Read
(also in Spanish)Source: Get Ready to Read
This website includes links to screening tools, skill-building activities, tips for parents, and literacy games and checklists. Also in Chinese, Korean and Arabic.
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Print Awareness
Source: Reading Rockets
This provides resources and information on print awareness (also called concepts of print) which is the understanding that print carries meaning, that books contain letters and words.
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Print Awareness: An Introduction
Source: Reading Rockets
This provides introduction to print awareness for young children. Children with print awareness can begin to understand that written language is related to oral language and is a predictor of future reading achievement.
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Reading BrightStart
Source: Nemours Reading BrightStart
This website provides resources to help parents or providers get young children on track to be good readers, including reading milestones, screening and reading activities.
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Spelling: In Depth
Source: Reading Rockets
This article aims to educate about the different stages young children go through in developing their spelling skills and how phonetic or “invented” spelling can play an important role in helping children learn how to write.