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Join us in celebrating Family Literacy Month and Family Engagement Month by recognizing the vital role parents and caregivers play in building strong readers and writers. Here are some of our most popular resources to help improve literacy at home:

Understanding Evidence-Based Literacy Practices Course: Family Edition

Free Course: Understanding Evidence-Based Literacy, The Family Edition

A five-lesson course for parents and families to learn how evidence-based literacy practices can support all children’s literacy needs, complete with practical examples.

 Learning About Your Child’s Reading Development

Learning About Your Child’s Reading Development

Our toolkit gives step-by-step advice to parents about what's involved with teaching a child to read, and how to support reading development at school and home.

The Andre Chronicles

The Andre Chronicles, Our Latest Comic Book!

We’re excited to introduce our newest comic book, The Andre Chronicles, featuring Andre, Kayla’s brother, as he works on his letter identification skills at home.

 Families and Schools Partnering for Children’s Literacy Success

Families and Schools Partnering for Children’s Literacy Success

This online tutorial explains how families and schools can work together to support children’s literacy success.

Coaching Steps for Families

Coaching Steps for Families

Simple steps parents can do to help their child’s literacy development. Available in both English and Spanish!



More Free Parents & Family Resources

In Case You Missed It

NCIL won the Meaningful Impact in Education Award from The Reading League! This recognition means so much as we continue our mission of advancing literacy for all learners, including those with dyslexia. Thank you to The Reading League for recognizing our efforts!

Adolescent Assessment of Literacy or AAL

We launched the Adolescent Assessment of Literacy (AAL), a free screening tool that assesses the literacy skills of students from the 3rd to the 12th grade in the Fall to identify students who may be at risk of not meeting goals for grade-level reading comprehension.

Teacher in a classroom

NCIL's Deputy Director Dr. Sarah Sayko led the latest webinar in the Educator’s Toolbox series which focused on best practices for improving language and literacy outcomes for English Language Learners (ELL), whether they are monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual.

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About NCIL

The research reported here is funded by a grant to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: H283D210004). The opinions or policies expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the Federal government. Copyright © 2024 National Center on Improving Literacy.

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