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Teach Your Kid to Read: Parent Articles and Free Phonics Resources
Articles and resources for parents teaching children to read at home.
Start here if you are looking for practical, parent-friendly reading help. These resources explain phonics, decodable books, reading research, and how parents can teach reading at home.
The most useful path for many families is simple: understand why systematic phonics matters, check what your child already knows, teach the next skill directly, and give the child decodable books that match that skill.
Recommended starting points
The complete step-by-step guide.
Books matched to each stage of phonics instruction.
Background on the reading instruction debate.
Research showing how much parents can help.
Related reading and resources
Browse every guide, download, video, and article in one place.
Short explanations for parents teaching phonics at home.
See examples from the Steps to Reading workbook series.
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