Every Child Ready to Read!

Did you know…

• Children get ready to read long before they start school.
• Research shows that the first five years of life are critical to a child’s future success.
• You can help your young child to be ready to learn to read… starting at birth.

Explore these websites or ask your children’s librarian for more information about how you can help your little one be ready to read.

• Kids Book Blog
• Every Child Ready to Read
• Birth to 6 (Hennepin County Library)
  An excellent site on Early Literacy, with information, tips and activities, and lists of books to share with your children. In English and Spanish.
• Grow Up Reading
• Get Set for Kindergarten
• Ready at Five
• Read to Me Charlotte

Starting Out Right:  A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success
This book by the National Research Council can be read or purchased online, or borrowed from the library.