Get Ready to Read!

Type of Resource: Teacher Tools and Information, Online Activities
Free or Fee: Free
Computer Needs: Acrobat PDF, Quicktime, Java Script
Link: Visit the Site!

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Recommendation:

The screening tool is well explained. FAQs and support are available to those who use it. The online stories for children are animated, educational and age appropriate. Visit the PBS site: http://pbskids.org/lions/ for additional literacy games and activities from Between the Lions for preschool children.

Description:

Get Ready to Read! provides a reading screening tool, online activitities and literacy resources for educators and families. The site is available in Spanish and English. From the website:"Get Ready to Read! (GRTR!) is a national initiative to build the early literacy skills of preschool-age children. The initiative provides an easy-to-administer, research-based screening tool to early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents in order to help them prepare all children to learn to read and write. "GRTR!'s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This Web site is a part of NCLD's initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professional and advocates with information to help build early literacy skills by integrating emergent literacy screening and learning activities into routine early childhood education, child-care and parenting practices."

Possible uses:

Parents will find useful information and tools to aid them in promoting early literacy at home. The screening tool can be used at home or school to investigate a child's readiness to read. Resources are available for parents and teachers to set up a positive learning environment and provide learning activities. Three interactive online stories from the PBS series, Reading Between the Lions, are connected to this site.

Related Resources:

Pre-K, K-3

Tools : Teacher
Tools : Administrator
Languages : Spanish
Language Arts : Reading & Literature
ESL/EFL/ELL : Reading

Teacher Tools and Information, Online Activities

Acrobat PDF, Quicktime, Java Script