Early Literacy

Sister site top Reading Rockets, is a bilingual site for educators and families of English Language learners. It focuses on research-based and best-practice information about teaching reading to English language learners (ELLs).

A linked listing of Illinois public library websites, catalogs and phone numbers.

The ICDL Foundation supports the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community- to exhibit respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas, by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge. The ICDL Foundation provides a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world to explore through innovative technology designed for children. In English, Spanish, French, Mongolian and Russian.

A program of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP), Reach Out & Read Illinois prepares low-income children for kindergarten by incorporating books into pediatric visits from six months to five years, connecting families to neighborhood resources and encouraging families to read together by building on the relationship between parents and healthcare providers. ROR believes that children's books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthier children and societies.

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young children learn to read and why so many struggle, and providing research-based strategies to teachers and parents to support the children’s literacy development.

Provides games, activities, and videos from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization working to help meet the development needs of children everywhere with critical early education, social impact programs, and fun.