Family Reading Resources
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These free, family-friendly resources can help you support your child's reading at home. Whether you are looking for reading activities, books, or information about how children learn to read, these trusted resources provide practical ideas for families.
Learn About Reading
Reading Rockets: Reading 101 for Parents
Learn how children develop reading skills, what to expect at different stages, and how you can support your child if they are struggling. This guide explains reading in clear, family-friendly language.
The Reading League Compass: Resources for Families & Caregivers
Discover trusted resources grounded in the Science of Reading. Learn how reading develops and find practical ways to support your child's literacy growth at home.
Reading Activities at Home
Colorín Colorado: Tips for Families – Help Your Child Learn to Read
Learn simple, research-based strategies to help your child become a confident reader. This resource provides practical ideas for reading together, building vocabulary, and supporting literacy through everyday family activities.
Colorín Colorado: Share 8 Great Reading Tips with Families (Available in 16 Languages)
Explore eight easy reading tips available in 16 languages to help families support literacy at home. These multilingual resources make it easier for every family to encourage reading, build language skills, and establish positive reading routines together.
Reading Rockets: Parent Reading Tips for All Ages
Simple, age-specific reading tips that fit easily into your daily routine. Learn practical ways to help your child develop strong reading skills from birth through elementary school.
IES: Supporting Your Child’s Reading at Home
Find free, easy-to-follow activities and short videos that show families how to practice important reading skills at home. Resources support language and vocabulary, letter-sound connections, word reading, and reading comprehension, with activities designed for families to use together.
Florida Center for Reading Research: Family Activities
Free, research-based literacy activities you can do at home to build reading, writing, and language skills. Activities are organized by grade level and designed to make learning fun.
USBE Family Reading Activities
Explore family-friendly reading activities created by the Utah State Board of Education. These resources provide simple ways to support literacy learning at home through everyday reading experiences.
PBS Parents: Literacy Resources
Find fun, engaging literacy activities that make reading part of everyday family life. Explore games, book ideas, videos, and hands-on learning activities for children of all ages.
UEN eMedia: Family Literacy Resources
Explore a collection of free educational resources from Utah Education Network (UEN) that families can use to support learning and literacy at home. UEN eMedia brings together curated educational materials in one convenient place.
Books to Read Together
The district has ebooks and audiobooks you can check out from SORA, our online platform. You can also visit your child’s school library to support your home reading!
Destiny – the district catalog of books
Utah’s Online Library has many fun resources and activities to share with your child.
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Access a growing collection of free digital books for children. Reading together at home is one of the best ways to build vocabulary, strengthen comprehension, and foster a lifelong love of reading.
Reading Together
UEN Learn at Home: Dyad Reading
Learn how to use Dyad Reading, a simple strategy where an adult and child read aloud together. This research-supported approach helps build reading accuracy, confidence, and fluency while making reading an enjoyable, shared experience.
Reading Practice & Comprehension
Access thousands of free, high-quality fiction and nonfiction reading passages for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12. Read Works helps children build vocabulary, background knowledge, and reading comprehension through engaging articles, books, and questions that can be completed online or printed at home.