Language and stories
Read aloud, talk about pictures and ideas, revisit favorite books, tell family stories, and give children time to ask and answer questions.
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Reading Readiness: Parent Resource Hub
General, practical starting points for the question you are living right now. Use what fits your child and family, and treat health, safety or developmental concerns as a conversation for a qualified professional.
Early literacy resources
Build the foundations before you chase performance.
Reading readiness grows through oral language, books, sound play, print experiences, letter knowledge, storytelling, drawing and writing, and the child's growing interest in making meaning. The goal in the early years is a rich foundation, not pressure to read on a particular timetable.
Sounds and print
Rhymes, syllables, beginning sounds, letters in meaningful places, and playful writing experiences can all become part of everyday learning.
Current resources
View the Reading Readiness Guide or browse the Book Library for current product information.
Children develop literacy skills at different rates and in different patterns. Kala's resources are educational and do not assess or predict an individual child's future reading performance.