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.
Reading Tip Sheets for Parents
Reading tips
for parents of:
Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets 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. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in eleven languages!
The baby and toddler tip sheets are currently available in English and Spanish only. However, translations of these new tip sheets, in the nine languages below, will be coming soon!
Tips for Parents of Babies
In English
- Download tips for babies (248K PDF)*
- View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for babies (167K PDF)*
- View tips online
Tips for Parents of Toddlers
In English
- Download tips for toddlers (248K PDF)*
- View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for toddlers (167K PDF)*
- View tips online
Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
In English
- Download tips for preschoolers (248K PDF)*
- View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for preschoolers (167K PDF)*
- View tips online
Tips for Parents of Kindergartners
In English
- Download tips for kindergartners
(248K PDF)* - View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for kindergartners
(154K PDF)* - View tips online
Tips for Parents of First Graders
In English
- Download tips for first graders (248K PDF)*
- View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for first graders (168K PDF)*
- View tips online
Tips for Parents of Second Graders
In English
- Download tips for second graders
(248K PDF)* - View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for second graders
(168K PDF)* - View tips online
Tips for Parents of Third Graders
In English
- Download tips for third graders
(248K PDF)* - View tips online
In Spanish
- Download tips for third graders
(168K PDF)* - View tips online
Parent tip sheets in other languages
Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third grade are available in the following languages:
- Arabic
(964K PDF)* - Chinese
(815M PDF)* - Haitian Creole
(950K PDF)* - Hmong
(943K PDF)* - Korean
(548M PDF)* - Navajo
(578K PDF)* - Russian
(646K PDF)* - Tagalog
(943K PDF)* - Vietnamese
(945K PDF)*
The baby and toddler tip sheets are currently available in English and Spanish only. However, translations of these new tip sheets, in the nine languages above, will be coming soon!
* To view this file, you'll need a copy of Acrobat Reader. Most computers already have it installed. If yours does not, you can download it now.
The site looks great and will be really helpful in my teaching the adult and child ELL populations daily.
~ Ruth Y.














