In this video, Dr. Mary Dahlgren, President of Tools for Reading and a national literacy consultant, goes over the 18 vowel sounds that students should learn before moving onto spelling and print. She describes why teaching sounds is a crucial first step in early literacy instruction.

This webpage details many different activities you can do with your child to help their literacy development. It groups the activities in talking and singing activities, reading activities, and drawing and writing activities for both babies, toddlers, and preschoolers and school-age children.

In this video, which is part of a series devoted to teaching literacy skills to young children, Dr. Maria S. Murray, Ph.D., describes many strategies to teach irregular words.

In this article, Majorie Bottari, a literacy specialist for Heggerty Phonemic Awareness, describes the importance of phonemic awareness in all children, even those who are older. She describes the most critical parts of literacy instruction and strategies to use with older children lacking reading proficiency.

This article describes the many strands that make up Scarborough’s Rope, all of which intertwine to result in skilled reading. This article focuses on what parents can do at home with their children to promote their literacy development.

In this video, Sarah from How Wee Learn describes 7 important phonological awareness skills which are directly linked to future reading success. She advises everyone who works with children to focus on phonological awareness first (when children are around 3 years old).