Burlington Public Library

Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids.

SRA's DISTAR is one of the most successful beginning reading programs available to schools. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers. Now, this program has been adapted for use at home. In only 20 minutes a day, this remarkable step-by-step program teaches your child to read--with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child can share.

What were my kids born to do? That is the question I hope to help them answer. And because reading is the thing I love most, it's only natural for me to hope it will become something they love, too...The trouble is that reading is a particularly slippery passion to want to pass along because it's a skill most parents would agree their children have to master, to one degree or another. --from Raising a Reader Can passion be passed along from parent...

An early literacy message from parents to parents. -- from the DVD

Step-by-step methods to plan, promote and assess early literacy skills. Addresses the developmental needs of early talkers (newborn-2), talkers (ages 2-5) and prereaders (ages 4-5).

Shows you how to help children learn to love reading and how easy it can be to create a home where literacy is naturally encouraged Home use only