Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.
Fun Reading Tips and Activities
Click below for fun ideas and activities you can do with your child! These will help build your child's reading skills.
- Get your child ready to read
- Teach your child about sounds
- Teach your child about letters
- Practice sounding out words
- Encourage your child to write
- Help your child understand what he or she reads
- Reading tips for parents
- Family activities at home
These tips aren't just for parents. They're for anyone who cares – grandparents, aunts, uncles, babysitters, neighbors, and friends. Print the pages out and ask other people to do the activities with your child, too. Hang the pages on your refrigerator door.
Try the activities and repeat the ones your child enjoys. Some of them – like "read with your child for 15 minutes each day" – are helpful no matter what age or stage your child is at.
I'm the ESL Program Manager for the Dept of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) in Europe. We're the school system for our military members' children. Our ESL programs support ELLs in grades Pre-K to grade 12. We have several delivery models — pull-out, integrated (inclusion), and collaborative/consultative. Most of the teachers are very familiar with your website and we often use your information for parents, administrators, and for classroom teachers of ELLs. I have shared your website each year with the new early childhood (ages 3-5 yrs) teachers in our system as well. I often refer to your website in newsletters to different groups.
~ Peggy Mohr, Instructional Systems Specialist
