Libraries open doors to stories, knowledge, and discovery. They also help families find their way as children begin learning to read, build their skills, or encounter reading difficulties.
Teach My Kid to Read helps library staff connect those families with books, reliable information, and practical support. You don’t have to be a reading specialist to help someone take their next step.
Understanding reading and reading difficulties
Build your understanding of how children learn to read, why some readers struggle, and how libraries can help. Find clear information to support conversations with families and guide your library’s approach.
Finding books for beginning and striving readers
Explore options for your library’s decodable collection through our Find a Decodable Book page. It includes TMKTR’s publishing partners, whose materials we have reviewed, alongside additional publishers and resources listed for discovery. Those additional listings do not imply TMKTR’s evaluation or endorsement.
Coming soon: TMKTR’s Vetted Decodable Book List. This valuable directory will help library staff choose books with confidence, knowing that the materials included have undergone a detailed evaluation against TMKTR’s criteria.
Helping families find information and support
Help parents and caregivers find a useful place to begin. Connect families with information about reading development, reading difficulties, and ways to support reading at home.
Seeing literacy support in action
Discover how libraries make reading support part of their everyday work- from building collections and making books easier to find to sharing information and connecting with community partners. Draw on their experiences as you consider what could work in your library.
Learn and connect through Literacy @ Your Library
Looking for professional learning, practical tools, and colleagues to exchange ideas with? Literacy @Your Library is TMKTR’s online community for librarians and library staff supporting beginning and striving readers.
Stay tuned for our forthcoming asynchronous course: Literacy @Your Library: Supporting Beginning and Striving Readers. This three-hour course will help library staff understand reading development, connect families with resources, and put practical literacy support into action.
Explore Literacy @ Your Library
What library colleagues are saying:
“Really enjoyed learning more about Teach My Kid to Read yesterday. Their Roadmap to Reading presentation illustrated the many ways library staff can support early literacy especially struggling readers and their families. Community awareness and access to resources are the first steps!”
Suzanne Macaulay
Deputy Director, Pioneer Library System, Canandaigua, NY