This list contains a variety of resources which can be helpful to teachers, parents, and caregivers in order to encourage literacy development in infants and toddlers.
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This article lists some specific ways babies benefit when adults read to them.
This page provides links to a variety of resources that make up the American Association of Pediatrics’ Books Build Connections Toolkit.
Each month, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails a high quality, age appropriate book to all registered children, addressed to them, at no cost to the child’s family.
This page has links to several videos demonstrating ways babies and parents communicate in ways that encourage language development during the first year of life.
Language and literacy development starts from the very beginning. This parent resource gives tips on how to respond to infants and toddlers in order to promote healthy development.
This offers tips for some fun ways to help your child become a happy and confident reader. Being a toddler is all about action. Encourage continued language development and interest in books and reading by keeping things lively and engaging.
This booklet suggests ways parents can help their toddlers learn to read. It includes a checklist for parents of toddlers.
This parenting resource provides information regarding storytelling, how this skill progresses, and tips for promoting storytelling in the first three years.
This page provides reading tips for reading to infants and toddlers.
This provides information regarding reading to toddlers, including the benefits, choosing books, and how and when to read to toddlers.
