| RESOURCE/ORGANIZATION TITLE | DESCRIPTION | HOW PARENTS CAN UTILIZE IT PROMOTE CHILDRENS LITERACY DEVELOPMENT |
| Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (2020) | Established in the mid 1990s, this imagination library aimed to benefit Dolly Parton’s home county East Tennessee, children. Later it grew to serve numerous states and spread to other nations. | This Library developed out of love of reading. Parents can quickly check for available books and pick the most suitable for their children. Ordering or requesting books from this library can be easily done and shipped to their respective destination in good time. Parents can always ensure their young kids get the best books from the library and thus aid in their early literacy and development goals. |
| National Center For Families Learning (NCFL) | Established in the late 1980s, the NCFL has been boosting engaging in and promoting learning activities throughout the U.S. with learning centers in almost every state. | The NCFL is completely concerned with promoting literacy throughout the state. It aims at eradicating poverty by offering families ways of learning. Through their site, the NCFL can offer other educational services to families at any given time throughout the country. |
| FEN Learning (2017) | This website offers a variety of information and other important ways of educating and bringing up healthy kids in society. The site is concerned with both parents and kids providing different resources to keep the family happy and educated. | This website would comfortably sooth the family needs having a variety of information that would significantly impact the family education-wise. This site would not only help in early literacy for the young children in the society, but would also ensure that they continue expanding and gain more knowledge. Parents can use this site to help their kids get the best out of the site and, at the same time, be educated as well. |
| Common Sense Media (Knorr, 2020). | This media is concerned with building a strong child character and help in building a strong mind |
This site has a variety of options to choose from and jump directly to whatever suites a parent, for instance, depending on the age of a kid, parents can click on either Tips for Parents of Little Kids, Tips for Parents of Big Kids, Tips for Parents of Tweens and Teens, or Character Traits, Media Picks, and Life Skills, That Supports Them . Depending on their choice, parents can successfully aid in shaping their kids' characters, thus making them fit and ready to engage in learning processes at all times. |
| Child Mind Institute (Ehmke, 2020). | This site is concerned with the general welfare of kids across the nation. | This site helps parents to monitor their kids as they grow. Young kids may have other interests, such as watching and engaging in other activities. This site allows parents to understand how they can help balance their children’s activities, ensuring that they do not spend too much time in front of a screen (smartphones and televisions, among other visual media). The site offers a step by step guide for parents to monitor and train their kids well irrespective of their ages. |
| Reading Rockets (n.d.) | This is a nationwide public media initiative for literacy giving information as well as resources concerned with ways through which young children can be knowledgeable and thus be able to read without any problems | This site provides parents/guardians with the best information concerning early literacy to young children, introducing them to the reading world at ab early age, thus ensuring that they turn out well and later become professional readers. What is more, the site offers more resources, i.e., links that have further information about early literacy to young kids. |
| Children’s Book Council (CBC) (2020). | CBC is a non-profit association that supports and promotes early literacy among young kids supporting and promoting children reading as well as children's books/literacy. It runs the site to encourage national early literacy among kids. | This site aims at ensuring that every child can read on their own from an early age. Besides, the site has a link that allows users to click and find out more information from (Every Child A Reader) offering early literacy to young children. The website further promotes reading nationally irrespective of age and, thus, a better way for parents to gain more knowledge on how to help their kids become more literate. |
| Global Family Research Project (Caspe & Lopez, 2017). | Focuses on family engagement, i.e., what the families are doing to educate their kids and make them literate at early stages. | The primary goal that this site is concerned with is what the family is doing to support the educational development of their children. It focusses on what the families can do and not do to ensure that their children gain a better understanding and thus become more knowledgeable. |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (AAP, 2020). | AAP is concerned with numerous things across the U.S., from health to children matters. | The AAP is concerned with many matters across the U.S. young kid’s literacy being one of them. The AAP provides parents and guardians with significant links that provide additional information and knowledge. The AAP publishes journal and other important resources such as journals among others, to aid in ensuring that it reaches every single individual across the U.S. and possibly across the globe. |
| Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) (2016) | This site focusses on promoting early literacy among young children across the U.S., ensuring that they turn out to be the best in the future. | The primary goal of the Center for Early Literacy Learning is promoting the adoption as well as the sustainability of the application of supported literacy education practices for young children across the U.S. Additionally, and this site provides resources for early childhood which can be used by parents, guardians and caregivers among others to educate young children irrespective of their condition, i.e., children with, disabilities, children from poor backgrounds, and development delays among others. |
| International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL, n.d). | This is an online library platform offering a variety of books and options for young kids and their parents/guardians to choose from. | This library comes with a variety of stories that young children can read. Parents can always guide their children on which stories to read and not to read. Similarly, there are other options that they can select from to provide their kids with an amazing experience, thus encourage them to learn new things. |
References
Caspe, M., & Lopez, E. M. (2017, Sep.). Global Family Research Project: Seven Research-Based Ways That Families Promote Early Literacy . https://globalfrp.org/content/download/88/593/file/Early+Literacy+Brief_Final.pdf
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