National Institute for Literacy offers the Shining Stars series.  As your child’s first teacher, these booklets offer ideas on how to help your child get ready and learn to read.

• Toddlers Get Ready to Read
• Preschoolers Get Ready to Read
• Kindergartners Learn to Read
• First Graders Learn to Read
• Second and Third Graders Learn to Read

Additional National Institute for Literacy Resources

• Literacy Begins at Home, Teach Them to Read – developmental checklists for parents of activities and ideas to help children learn to read.
• A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas from Research for Parents – Birth through Preschool – research and ideas for helping your preschool child learn to read
• What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy