Supporting children's literacy at home is a big job. We want to help.
Join us for workshops, watch videos, and get book recommendations right here!
Workshops
Welcome to our year-long Family and Caregiver Workshops! We created this series to help support the literacy development of children outside of school. These workshops will provide essential guidance and suggestions of ways to work with children outside of the school day to help them become powerful and life-long readers and writers.
This series will help support the literacy development of children outside of school. These workshops will provide you essential tips, suggestions, and ideas of ways to work with children outside of school to become powerful and life-long readers and writers. Workshops will be offered 2-4 times per month and will support students from grades PreK - 12. Some workshops will be offered in Spanish. We’ll discuss a variety of topics including early literacy and reading; spelling, punctuation, and grammar; essay writing; AI/ChatGPT; storytelling and oral language; social justice; new book suggestions and more.
You will see, across the year we have three major time slots for these sessions:
8:00am ET- Book Buzzes: What’s new and exciting in children’s literature (30 minutes)
2:00pm ET - What’s happening in Education and Schools that Caregivers and Families Need to Know (45 minutes)
7:00pm ET - Helpful ways to support children outside of school to develop robust reading and writing lives (45 minutes)
We welcome you to our learning community!
Click here for a list of all Family and Caregiver Workshops dates and topics throughout the year. First workshops are September 25 and September 26 at 7:00pm ET.
Not sure you can attend all sessions? Register below and the link is valid for every session all year. We will send you reminders before each session.
Click here to register for Workshops in English
Haga clic aquí para inscribirse en los talleres ofrecidos en español
We'd also like to reach out to family and caregiver coordinators and PTO/PTA coordinators in your school, click here to add your team.
Videos
In these family videos—each less than ten minutes—we draw on a combination of research, classroom experience, and educator knowledge to help parents and caregivers support young people, PreK to grade 9, with their reading and writing. Some videos show you games to play at home while others help you support phonics, avid reading, creative writing, study skills, research, vocabulary, or abstract thinking. We’ll add to this collection periodically. We’ve tried to make these accessible and joyful and to support you in ways that will make a difference for your youngsters.
View all on our YouTube Channel
K–2 Family Videos 3–5 Family Videos 6–8 Family Videos
Book Collections
Want help finding some books your child will love to read? We’ve curated book collections of all-time and brand-new favorites, designed to hook readers young and old. We have lists for fantasy novels and graphic novels, for high-interest series, and even a collection of courses of study for your teen readers. We update these lists regularly, so check back for more.