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Early Learning At Home

Many parents are taking it upon themselves to start early learning at home. If you are one of those, please peruse the resources we've pulled together for you. There are so many great finds on the internet to guide your decisions and give you ideas about where to begin. Enjoy!

Articles About Phonics for Early Learning:

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It's Time to Stop Debating How to Teach Kids to Read and Follow the Evidence Science News
In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat New York Times
Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way? The New York Times
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How a Flawed Idea is Teaching Millions of Kids to be Poor Readers APM Reports
​Why Doesn't Every Teacher Know the Research on Reading Instruction? Education Week
Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read? American Public Media Reports (Podcast)
​How I taught My Kid to Read  The Atlantic
Kids Struggle to Read When Schools Leave Phonics Out The Hechinger Report
How Phonics is Taught Can Affect How Well a Child Learns to Read The Journal
Literacy Builds Life Skills as Well as Language Skills The New York Times
Explaining Phonics Instruction International Literacy Association
How Do Kids Learn to Read? What the Science Says EducationWeek
Influential Reading Group Makes It Clear: Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics Education Week
​School is for Learning to Read The New York Times


Early Learning Resources

If you are looking for innovative ways to think about teaching your child at home, there are a lot of resources out there for you! Here are some particularly helpful websites to get you started:

​http://www.teachreadingearly.com
https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/support-learning-with-play
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/early-learning/conditioninfo/promote
https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/school-life/grade-by-grade/preparing-kindergarten.html
https://www.verywellfamily.com/fun-learning-activities-kids-at-home-3128960
https://centerforparentingeducation.org
https://www.businessinsider.com/teachers-say-this-is-what-they-wish-parents-would-teach-their-kids-2016-9
https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/learn-english-free-books/
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This one is particularly exciting, because the Dolly Parton Imagination Library will send your child a free book in the mail—every month!  ​https://www.imaginationlibrary.com
https://myvision.org/guides/infant-eye-vision-development/

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Founder and creator Mary Follin started her career as a systems engineer with IBM. She's worked in product development, market research, and more recently provides marketing consulting to professional services firms. Beyond creating Teach Your Child to Read™, she is also the author of Ethyr, winner of the the Moonbeam Children's Book Award and the Gertrude Warner Book Award.
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​Mary is also author, with Erika Guerrero, of the advice column 
ASK MOM, featured in Fredericksburg Parent & Family magazine and winner of a 2021 Parenting Media Association award. ​
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  • THE PROGRAM
  • ABOUT
    • ABOUT MARY FOLLIN
    • BOOK
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  • ASK MOM
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    • 7 Things You Need to Know
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