For Parents
Resources, tools, tips and more to help inspire story time at home.
Free Ways to Read
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International Children's Digital Library
The International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in 59 languages from many countries. Their goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.
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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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CDC’s Amazing Books for Children
CDC’s amazing books can help include free English and Spanish storybooks ready to read and print. Titles include Baby’s Busy Day (Un día ocupado del bebé, en Español), Where is Bear? (¿Dónde Está Osito?, en Español), and Amazing Me (Soy Maravilloso, en Español).
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NATIONAL RESOURCES
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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.