• Every Child Ready to Read - Parent Guide to Early Literacy
  
  
• Recommended Reading for Children

Big Ideas In Beginning Reading - Focuses on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Carol Hurst’s Children's Literature Site - Offers comprehensive reading lists by grade level with book reviews and curriculum ideas.

Children's Literature Web Guide - University of Calgary.

Children's Storybooks Online - Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages.

Education World

• 25 Ideas for Better Book Reports - Use these ideas for teachers to find creative ways to get your kids to describe what they've read.
  
  
• Summer Reading List

Family Literacy Initiative - Minnesota Humanities Commission.

• Family Literacy Trainings

First 55 Come Alive! - Ten minutes a day plus playing the supporting reading games build newly developing vocabulary.

Get Ready to Read - Offers an online tool to help you know what reading skills you need to work on with your child!

Guys Read - Author and former teacher Jon Scieszka created this site to help boys choose books based on their interests.

Helping Your Child Become a Reader - This online guide from the U.S. Department of Education gives parents tips to incorporate reading into daily life, find age-appropriate books for their child and improve their child’s reading and writing skills.

International Children's Digital Library - Explore kids' books from around the world.

International Reading Association’s Choices Lists - Each year the International Reading Association compiles three "Choices" book lists: one selected by children, one by teachers and one by young adults.

Multicultural & Anti-bias Books for Children - Help your child better understand and respect your own and others' cultural groups, develop empathy, and begin the lifelong process of learning about multiple perspectives and experiences (curriculum connections), Anti-Defamation League.

Oprah's Book Club

Partnership for Reading - Offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research, National Institute for Literacy.

• A Child Becomes a Reader: Proven Ideas for Parents from Research--Birth to Preschool
  
  
• La Lectura es lo Primero: Cómo ayudar a su hijo a aprender a leer (Reading guide for Parents - Spanish Version)
  
  
• Put Reading First, A Parent Guide - What you should expect to see your child learning at school and what you can do to help at home.
  
  
• Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read (K-3)

Random House Kids

Read Across America! - A campaign of the National Education Association.

Read Aloud Resources - Family Literacy Council.

Read to Kids! - Minnesota Literacy Council.

Reading Lists From RIF and ALA - Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and the American Library Association (ALA) provide grade-level reading lists for kindergartners through 12th graders. Also, click here to check out RIF's complete summer reading program.

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers - On this site, you'll find tips to help young readers, as well as interviews with authors and extensive reading lists.

• Put Downs & Comebacks: How to Respond to a Discouraged Kid - What do you do when a child is struggling with reading? It can help to acknowledge that it’s hard and find appropriate materials.

Red Balloon Bookshop

• The Multicultural Classroom
  
  
• Upcoming Events

Scholastic Books - Encourage a love of learning.

• Immigration Stories of Yesterday and Today - Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century.

Summer Reading and Learning for Children - Association for Library Service to Children.

Summer Reading Fun - America Reads, a grassroots literacy organization, offers reading activities for parents and children to do together, a children's pledge that promises they will read 30 minutes a day all summer and parent resources (also in Spanish) to help with learning at home.

TeachersFirst's Reading Lists - This K-12 resource for teachers, offers lists of books for all grade levels.

USA Values Booklist - 14 lists based on core values.