Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

Reading Tips for Parents

By: Reading Rockets (2008)

A child's success as a reader begins much earlier than the first day of school. Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Parent Tips offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child.

Click below to see these tips online or download them as a PDF:

A downloadable handout, for parents of children in preschool to grade 3, is also available below in the following languages:

Spanish (471K PDF)*
Arabic (964K PDF)*
Traditional Chinese (959K PDF)*
Haitian Creole (950K PDF)*
Hmong (943K PDF)*
Korean (446K PDF)*
Navajo (578K PDF)*
Russian (646K PDF)*
Tagalog (943K PDF)*
Vietnamese (945K PDF)*

Find these and other downloadable tips and guides in our Guides section.

* To view this file, you'll need a copy of Acrobat Reader. Most computers already have it installed, or you can download it now.

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