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Reading 101 for English Language Learners
Get the basics on how to support the literacy achievement of your English language learners. You’ll find instructional strategies based on the five components of reading as well as oral language and the role of students’ home language.
Reading SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions About Reading - Part 1
In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about reading and how to support their children at home. COVID-19 has disrupted regular reading instruction for our K-3 kids. Families want to step in and help fill some of the gaps, but that can be challenging.
Reading SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions About Reading - Part 2
In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about reading and how to support their children at home. COVID-19 has disrupted regular reading instruction for our K-3 kids. Families want to step in and help fill some of the gaps, but that can be challenging.
Writing SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions About Writing
In this special video series, experts answer real questions from families about writing and how to support their children's literacy at home.
Reading Tips for Stronger Vocabulary and Comprehension
Created in partnership with Reading Rockets, this video series invites reading experts to answer actual questions from families about how to support their children's vocabulary and comprehension skills at home.
Reading Tips for Increasing Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency
Created in partnership with Reading Rockets, this video series invites reading experts answer actual questions from actual families about how to support their children's phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency skills at home.
Themed Booklists
Powerful Voices: Inspiring Female Characters and Their Stories
YA and Middle Grade books have often been a place where the adolescent, female experience is explored and celebrated. Join us in spotlighting a few of the many powerful female authors and characters that inspire us all.
Mental Health: Empathy and Understanding
YA novels are a safe place for young adult readers to understand mental health issues from multiple perspectives and within a multitude of contexts. This collection of authors deftly delve into the many aspects of mental health and the sprawling impact on everyone and everything around it.
School Shootings: Trying to Understand the Unthinkable
Helping readers find empathy, sympathy, and understanding are lofty goals for YA authors who delve into the tragedy of school shootings. Told from multiple perspectives, this collection brings together many voices helping young adults process the unthinkable.
Bullies Be Gone!
Bullying is destructive and can take many forms. Why does someone become a bully? How do you help someone who is being bullied? Young adults can start to find the answers and build empathy through the pages of many Middle Grade and Young Adult books.
Social-emotional learning
There’s a wealth of children’s books that support social-emotional learning (SEL). Browse these booklists, filled with books for young readers that touch on the basic elements of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
Expert Answers to Family Questions About Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities
In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about reading and how to support their children at home.
Writing SOS: Expert Answers to Family Questions About Writing
In this special Reading Rockets video series, experts answer real questions from families about writing and how to support their children's literacy at home.
Reading 101: A Guide for Parents
This guide will give you a better understanding of what it takes to learn to read (and write) and how you can help your children grow as readers, writers, and learners.
Adolescent Literacy
Looking for information and resources to help your struggling adolescent readers and writers? AdLit, a program made possible through a grant from NEA, has a multimedia library of free, research-based resources to support your students in grades 6-12.
Lectura SOS: Preguntas sobre la lectura de familias bilingües
Nuestra nueva serie de videos, Reading SOS, comparte ideas sobre cómo las familias pueden apoyar el desarrollo del lenguaje y la alfabetización de sus hijos en casa.
Recommended Books and Teaching Resources from Read Across America
Looking for diverse books to teach or fill your classroom library? Need recommended books by theme? Want to start a book club at your school? Then visit NEA's Read Across America for books, authors, and teaching resources that promote diversity and inclusion.
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