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 webpage offers parents book-based developmental milestones for babies and toddlers.
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.
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.
While infants and toddlers are not ready to learn to read and write yet, they are nevertheless developing skills that provide a foundation for later literacy. This resource shows how sharing books with very young child supports emerging literacy.
This article offers tips for some fun ways to help a 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 parenting resource provides information regarding storytelling, how this skill progresses, and tips for promoting storytelling in the first three years.
Early language and literacy skills are learned best through everyday moments with a toddler — reading books, talking, laughing, and playing together.
This page provides reading tips for reading to infants and toddlers.
This article provides information regarding reading to toddlers. It includes information on the benefits of reading, describes how to choose books, and how and offers tips on how and when to read to toddlers.
