Get Ready to Read! Newsletter
February 2007

Feature
This month’s feature is adapted from "Math Skills and Young Children: What We Know and What We Still Have to Find Out," an article by Sheldon H. Horowitz, Ed.D., the Director of Professional Services at the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD).  Dr. Horowitz explores the importance of math in the preschool and early elementary grades, and how new research is contributing to the growing pool of knowledge on how young children learn math.

Early Literacy Activity: Jump for a Rhyme
Try this activity to help children become aware of rhyming words and learn to identify them.  Look here each month for a different engaging, child-friendly, and fun activity idea! 

Literacy Word of the Month
Invented Spelling

News Briefs
Find out about a new Web site from a nationwide network of children’s libraries, learn about Interactive Shared Book Reading and Phonological Awareness Training, read about upcoming conferences near you, and much more in this month’s News Briefs!

Ask GRTR!
Look here every month to find the answers to frequently asked questions from our help e-mail box.  This month, find out about accessing GRTR!’s early literacy Webinars. 

Resources for Parents
This month, get answers to your questions about choosing the right preschool, find fun daily reading and writing activities, find out about a new nationwide database for childcare centers, and more!

Resources for Educators
Nominate the next “American Star of Teaching,” find out what books took home awards from the American Library Association this year, read up on the latest on Recognition & Response, and much more! 

News from the Field
In this month's news, we share comments from our friends in Georgia who are using the GRTR! screening tool in the field.