How to Help Your Child Be Successful in Reading

Discover how to support your child’s growth as a young reader and writer. Here you’ll find our Reading 101 for Families guide, bilingual parent tips, ideas for building your child’s knowledge about the world, Q&A with experts, guidance on how to help a child who struggles, and ways to connect with your child’s school.

Listen, Practice and Master All the Sounds! Explore audio and visual references for the 75 most common phonograms.

Heart Word Magic is a tool designed to help students learn to read and spell high-frequency words and sight words, particularly those that aren’t very decodable. Show your students the animations, then try these fun, hands-on free Student Practice Activities.

Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. 

Reading Buddies is an engaging foundational television series based on the science of reading. The show makes the science of reading fun for aspiring young readers—cleverly teaching the underlying components of skillful word reading. These skills include phonological awareness, letter names and sounds, and blending sounds to decode words.