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Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
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| The National Research Council's executive summary offers a number of suggestions for improving early childhood education in preschool, day care and other settings.
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Healthy Start, Grow Smart Series
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| A series of booklets about caring for babies (newborns through one-year-olds). Available in Spanish.
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Helping Your Child Become A Reader
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| Features dozens of fun activities parents can use to build the language skills of young children (infants through age 6). Includes a reading checklist, typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
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How Do I Know a Good Early Reading Program When I See One?
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| How to choose a good early reading program.
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Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read, A Parent Guide
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| Tells what parents can do at home to help young children become better readers. Also, describes what parents should expect to see at school.
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Publications
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| ED publications on reading -- what research says, how to help children become strong readers, and what to look for in early reading programs.
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Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Learn to Read
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| Addresses five areas: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.
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Reading Tips for Parents
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| Tells how to help children get ready to read and learn, what to look for in early reading programs, simple strategies for creating strong readers, and the five essential components of reading.
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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
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| This guide, developed by the National Research Council, explains how children learn to read and how adults can help them.
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