Resources for Parents
Free Ways to Read
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International Children's Digital Library
The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.
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Free Books from Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland.
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Story Jumper
Storyjumper is a popular tool for creating storybooks. It is easy to use for students of all ages and it can help them create their very own storybooks.
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The Read with Me Campaign is part of an initiative from the Colorado Department Education. It doesn’t matter how you practice reading with your child — whether you sing songs, read from books, play word games or spell out loud. The important thing is to practice reading with your child every day, as often as you can. They need you to read with them.
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Read Across America for Parents teaches how and why to make room for books and reading together at home with these resources, activities, and information.
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National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) has a mission to increase access to, and use of, evidence-based approaches to screen, identify, and teach students with literacy-related disabilities, including dyslexia.