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Audible Kids

Audible Kids provides digital audio content for children. Shop, purchase, and download digital audio editions of books, newspapers, and magazines; original programming; and TV and radio subscriptions. Spanish titles are also available.

Between the Lions

Between the Lions is an award-winning PBS children’s series designed to help young children learn to read. The Web site includes games and materials from the show, including a literacy curriculum aimed at children ages 4-7.

Book Adventure

Using Book Adventure, young readers not only receive the intrinsic satisfaction of reading a book and demonstrating their comprehension through short quizzes, but also earn rewards for reading and demonstrating comprehension of the books they’ve read.

Center for the Book (Library of Congress)

On behalf of books and reading, the Center for the Book serves as an advocate, a catalyst, and a source of ideas — both nationally and internationally. Its major themes and projects are reading and literacy promotion, the role of books and reading in today’s society, the international role of books, the recognition and celebration of America’s literary heritage, and the history of books and print culture.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, University of Michigan

The model that underlies CIERA’s research efforts acknowledges many influences on children’s reading acquisition: readers and texts, home and school, and policy and profession. CIERA’s task goes beyond finding answers to persistent problems in reading through research to disseminating those solutions to people who impact children’s early reading achievement: teachers, teacher educators, parents, policymakers, and others.

Children's Learning Institute

The University of Texas Health Science Center’s Children’s Learning Institute combines data and studies from the fields of psychology, neuro-development, education and child development to provide proven learning solutions derived from, and supported by, documented research.

Colorín Colorado

Colorín Colorado is a bilingual web site that provides information, activities, and advice on helping children learn to read and succeed at school. Developed by the Reading Rockets project, Colorín Colorado features practical information for Spanish-speaking parents, beautiful illustrations from Caldecott Award-winning illustrator David Diaz, video clips of celebrities such as the late beloved Celia Cruz, and skill-building activities that draw upon Spanish-language songs and rhymes.

Everybody Wins!

Everybody Wins! is a privately-funded non-profit organization devoted to increasing children’s prospects for success in school and in life through one-to-one reading experiences. POWER LUNCH is a lunch-time literacy and mentoring program pairing elementary school students with adult volunteers.

Get Ready to Read!

Get Ready to Read!’s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This site is part of NCLD’s initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professionals, and advocates with tools to help build early literacy skills, including a bilingual early literacy screening tool.

Ghotit

Ghotit offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia or dysgraphia. Ghotit’s first service is an online context sensitive spell checker. Ghotit was founded by people that suffer from dyslexia and it’s mission is to improve the overall quality of life of a dyslexic.
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