Fun ideas for encouraging kids to give books they no longer use to children who would love to read them. Recycling used books makes room on your shelves for new ones, and puts good books into the hands of children in your community.

Simple and fun early reading skill building activities to do at home.

Looking for a reading tutor? Cost, training, personality, and location are all factors to consider when choosing a reading tutor.

Fun alphabet activities for children who are beginning to sing and play with letters, discovering the sounds letters can make, and who are curious about how letters make words.

Phonemic Awareness is key component of early reading instruction. This article provides basic information about phonemic awareness for parents and teachers.

Teach the six common syllable patterns to build reading and spelling skills for beginning readers as well as older readers who find reading and writing multisyllabic words challenging.

Open syllables are one of the six syllable types. After teaching closed syllables, open syllables are the next type to teach to beginning and remedial readers and spellers.

Here are some great ideas for teaching homophones and homonyms

It is important to match young readers with “just right” books at their reading level. Find out what reading levels mean and how to compare the different systems.

Dyslexia is misunderstood problem. Many people think it has to do with writing letters backwards. However in the official definition of dyslexia there is no mention of letter reversals.