Family Resources

Here you’ll find tips and strategies to support your child, develop their skills, and nurture their love of reading.

Reading Guides

Book-specific guides contain helpful strategies and fun activities.

NWR Family Reading Guides

Reading Journal

Fun activities to help kids strengthen literacy skills and build reading confidence.

NWRI Reading Journal

Reading Passports

Read across the world! Document your adventure in a downloadable, printable passport filled with activities.

To download your passport, select your language and grade level. Have a fantastic trip!

NWRI Reading Passports

Highlights Magazine

Enrolled students will get a special edition of Highlights magazine this summer! This magazine is full of fun activities so kids can practice their reading skills all summer long.

Two cover images of Highlights children's magazine.

Videos

Our videos offer tips for caregivers to engage with reading in a child-friendly way.

Four ways to help your child read fluently
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Resource Hub

Book List & Reading Guides

We provide book-specific assets for each book sent out through the New Worlds Reading Initiative. For a comprehensive list of all books shipped since December 2021, please see this list. Activities are still available on our website for each book on this list. Families will receive the nine specific books that they select at the beginning of each year.

Early Readers

Decoding Manipulative Letters

How to Ask Open-Ended Questions

How Writing Supports Reading

Getting Ready to Read

Make Read Alouds Fun (Grades K-2)

Dialogic Reading using CROWD

Why Letter Sounds Matter

Great Reading Habits

Learning New Words

Create Reading Routines (Grades 3-5)

First Reading

Understanding your Child's Routine Assessments

4 Tips for Using the Family Reading Guide

Why you should read 20 minutes a day with your child

Improving Reading Skills

Decoding Multisyllabic Words

Four ways to help your child read fluently