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2000 Volunteer Leader Training Guide
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Reading Resources
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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success

This guide, developed by the National Research Council, explains how children learn to read and how adults can help them.

Simple Things You Can Do To Help All Children Read Well and Independently by the End of the Third Grade

This booklet is a guide that all can use to help children learn to read and become better readers.

Checkpoints for Progress in Reading and Writing: For Families and Communities and For Teachers and Learning Partners

These two booklets provide developmental milestones for children from birth through 12 and explain what most children are able to read and write during these periods.

Ready *Set* Read Early Childhood Learning Kit

This kit offers families and caregivers ideas on age-appropriate activities that help children learn about language.

Raising a Reader, Raising a Writer

This brochure for parents lays out simple ways to nurture a child into becoming a successful reader.

Helping Your Child Become a Reader

Based on the latest research, this guide for families with children from infancy through 6 explains how and why to use language skills – talking, listening, reading and writing – to help children grow into readers. If offers everyday activities to encourage a child-s love of reading.

Where to Find Inexpensive or Free Children’s Books

This brochure list organizations and publishers to contact about free books.

International Reading Association

The International Reading Association provides a variety of resources to parents and educators concerned about literacy.

U.S. Department of Education Publications

The U.S. Department of Education publishes a wealth of information for educators and parents on reading and other educational topics.

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