Early Reading and Writing with Preschoolers

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.

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.

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.

This website includes links to screening tools, skill-building activities, tips for parents, and literacy games and checklists. Also in Chinese, Korean and Arabic.

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.

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.

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.

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.