Check Out Reading Rockets

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 Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents/ offers strategies, lessons,activities and ideas designed to help young children learn to read.
This site offers general guidelines to encourage reading  at home and in class as well as specific method to teach reading English from the start.

There are tabs for parents, teachers, librarians, principals, other professionals, and also in Spanish.
This is an enriched source for all things reading, valuable also for secondary teachers.
Here is a sample of current articles:

• Children's Story Retelling as a Literacy and Language Enhancement Strategy >
• Effects of Reading to Infants and Toddlers on Their Early Language Development  >
• Relationships Between Inferential Book Reading Strategies and Young Children's Language and Literacy Competence  >
• Technology in Early Education: Building Platforms for Connections and Content that Strengthen Families and Promote Success in School >
• What Works to Improve Student Literacy Achievement? An Examination of Instructional Practices in a Balanced Literacy Approach >