IRA resources are available to help parents as they take on their critical role as their children’s first and most important teachers.
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Getting Your Child Ready to Read
Supporting Your Beginning Reader
Writing Activities for Young Readers
What Kids Really Want to Read
Reading, Writing, and Technology
Making the Most of Reading Tests
What Is Family Literacy? Getting Involved in Your Child’s Literacy Learning |
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Booklets are available for purchase at low cost (US$1.60 each for IRA members, $2.00 for nonmembers), with discounts available for larger quantities. Click on a title for more information.
Your Child’s Hearing Is Important
Beginning Literacy and Your Child: A Guide to Helping Your Baby or Preschooler Become a Reader
“Books Are Cool!”: Keeping Your Middle School Student Reading
Help Your Child Learn English as a Second Language
Ayude a sus hijos a aprender inglés como segunda lengua
I Can Read and Write! How to Encourage Your School-Age Child’s Literacy Development
Parents, Teens, and Reading: A Winning Combination
Your Child’s Vision Is Important
Your Gifted Child and Reading: How to Identify and Support Advanced Literacy Development
IRA videos are perfect for parent groups, or for you to watch on your own.
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And the award-winning Words That Cook! Parenting With Children’s Books DVD series: |
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Looking for books your child might like? Find recommendations in our Choices booklists.
Doing research on ways to help your child with reading? Check out links to helpful websites.
Is your child a computer whiz? Take a look at ReadWriteThink’s interactive activities.
Teaching Tools
Issues in Literacy