Early Childhood Reading Readiness

Free early childhood reading readiness, literacy skill, reading games, interactive learning, spelling and reading activities for children kids in preschool, kindergarten, day care.

Free Early Childhood Reading Games
Free early childhood reading games: alphabet literacy worksheets, reading skills, phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, vocabulary and reading comprehension.

School-Home Links: Kindergarten Activities
Features 100 reading and literacy activities appropriate for kindergarteners. From the U.S. Department of Education.

Language Arts Lesson Plans (PreK-1)
Cross-curricular language-rich lesson plans; includes activities for preschool through first grade.

Webbing Into Literacy
Downloadable resources designed especially for Head Start teachers; includes instructions for fostering early literacy and reproducible classroom materials.

Kindergarten - Language Arts
Provides simple interactive learning activities designed for kindergarten students. From Kidport.com.

ABC's of Reading
Suggestions for teaching reading, and activities that help create a desire to read and reinforce reading skills and comprehension in younger children.

CanTeach - Beginning Reading and Writing
Lesson plans and other activities for teaching early literacy skills.

Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Reading
Monique Michael, early childhood educator, describes her success in teaching children in a New York City public school to read.

Developing Reading Skills in Young Children
Dr. Reid Lyon answers questions about developing reading skills in young children.

The Literacy Center
Safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with their pre and early readers. In English and Spanish.

Sail Away Learning Center
All-in-one language arts, reading, spelling, and penmanship curriculum for pre-K through grade 2.

Parents' Guide to Reading for Kids
Various resources and strategies for parents to use to help children learn to read.

Reading Strategies
Learn about how children develop language and teach them how to read better.

Early Childhood and Literacy
Explores how early childhood experiences provide a foundation for literacy. Includes suggestions for caregivers. From the U.S. Department of Education.

Language Arts Lesson Plans
Archive includes dozens of reading, grammar, and writing lesson plans geared toward young learners.

Beginning Reading And Phonological Awareness
Provides suggestions for teaching phonological awareness. Includes strategies for helping children with special needs.