Family
Reading Literacy Resources:
A bookmark you can print out
Link to all the wonderful resources the Austin Public Library
has to offer.
This website includes clear examples of the big ideas in reading,
including phonemic awareness and alphabetic understanding.
Especially for teen moms, the Born to Read program gives helpful
information about reading to your baby.
This expanded publication accommodates information about additional
programs, adding information about services for youth, and spot-lighting
projects, events, and activities of interest to youth and families.
You'll find listings and information about books for children
and young adults that are categorized for easy searching. The
site also provides critiques by fans, schools, libraries and
commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
This PBS Web site uses
BETWEEN THE LIONS characters,
programs, and activities to help educators and parents teach
reading and writing to children with hearing loss.
The "Get Ready to Read" screening tool consists of
20 questions that parents and caregivers can ask four-year-olds
to see if they're on track for learning how to read. It's fast,
free, research-based, confidential, and easy-to-use.
How do children learn to read? In this interactive feature,
parents can experience reading development in action from kindergarten
through grade three. The feature allows them to move through
the pages of a book and listen as a child reads the book aloud.
A different book for each grade level and explanatory text describes
typical reading strategies for that grade.
A handful of authors and illustrators have changed the face
of children's literature with memorable, magical books that
appeal to readers both young and old. We set out to interview
each of them! Find out if Chris Van Allsburg is really as spooky
as his books, where Jon Scieszka gets his wacky ideas, and why
Patricia Polacco's warm family tales seem so real.
Four online, interactive games with multi-level and multi-subject
choices to help students learn vocabulary words. Over 100 topics
with 4,500+ words. Flash games include: Hangman, Word Search,
Language Match Game, Vocabulary Quiz.
This is a link to the website of the course author, Dr. Susan
Gibbs, Ph.D. The site provides audio files of the correct pronunciation
of consonants and vowels, as well as a table for the recommended
introduction and review of sounds in letters and related decoadable
words.
Outstanding site for parents and teachers of 3-7 year-old children
that covers letters, shapes, words, colors, numbers and keyboard.
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Promoting skilled workers and strong families through literacy.
A National Urban League resource guide that offers practical
tips to help you engage your child in reading and literacy-building
activities.
Fun, interactive games for kids.
This popular children's TV program and Web site promotes the
love of reading through fun activities and interactive games.
The site includes easily searchable resources for kids, parents
and teachers.
Every year students grades kindergarten to 3rd grade are invited
to write and illustrate their own story to submit to the
READING
RAINBOW Young Writers and Illustrators contest.
>>Read
this year's winning stories.
A few tried and true hints on how to encourage kids to read
is the focus of this article, with comments and suggestions
from kids themselves.
A new PBS internet and broadcast documentary episode of
Reading Rockets, "Reading and the Brain," looks at how advances in neuroscience are helping researchers better understand why nearly 40 percent of children have a hard time learning to read--and others don't .
A new article from top reading research Richard Allington is
now on Reading Rockets. "The Six T's of Effective Elementary
Literacy Instruction" provides a clear-eyed view of what
he believes matters most in teaching kids to read – effective
and expert teachers.
This article has suggestions on ways a parent and their child
can practice and play with sounds while in the car, on the bus,
or while waiting in line. Helping kids become aware of the sounds
within spoken words – what reading experts call "phonemic
awareness" – is one of the best ways to get children
ready to read.
The Starfall Method promises to improve reading acquisition by using the Internet to help make it fun for the children and easy for the educators.
Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. The ABC section is great. You see the letter, hear the sound, and see multiple words with that sound.
Primarily designed for first grade, this site is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.
Would your kids rather clean their rooms than pick up a book?
Here's an article on how children's emotions about reading can
influence whether or not they become readers.
The University of Ohio's Telecommunications Center brings you
this terrific resource of hundreds of streamed audio interviews
with authors and books, including children's stories, novels,
poetry and more! Listen and read along to classics such as Alice's'
Adventures in Wonderland.
As you read the book, click on the flashing words on select pages to see the word "morph" into a WordFriend!
KLRU Contact Information
Linda Schmid
Senior V.P. for Educational Services
email: lschmid@klru.org
direct: 512.475.9049
Mary Alice Appleman
Assistant Director for Educational Services
email: maappleman@klru.org
direct: 512.475.9051
