Get Ready to Read! Newsletter
January 2007

Feature
In this month’s feature, the Get Ready to Read! team provides suggestions for quality television shows that help young children build early literacy skills while they watch.  So, grab your favorite blanket, cuddle up with your little ones and get ready for some quality time that will be fun, entertaining and educational!

Early Literacy Activity: Find a Word
Find a Word is an activity that you can do with one child or a group of children to help them learn one of the many purposes of print, and to help them learn to differentiate print from pictures.   

Literacy Word of the Month
Decodable Texts

News Briefs
In this month’s News Briefs, find out about NCLD’s new early learning landing page, learn about a Latino early literacy initiative that instills a sense of culture through literacy, read about upcoming conferences near you, and much more in this month’s News Briefs!

Ask Get Ready to Read!
Look here every month to find the answers to frequently asked questions from our help e-mail box. This month, find out how to print out answer sheets to record your child’s answers to the Get Ready to Read! screening tool.

Resources for Parents
This month, read about the top educational toys of 2007, find new online reading activities for families, and get tips on sharing stories with your child, and more! 

Resources for Educators
Find out about a new tool for administrators to helps parents read with their children, take a look inside early education with a blog from a New Jersey preschool teacher, and much more! 

News from the Field
In this month's news, find out about the GRTR! Southwest Center’s new connection with the Family Fun Van, a mobile preschool in Arizona!