Fostering a Love of Reading Early

This guide is designed to provide teachers and parents with strategies to strengthen their teaching of children’s literature. By incorporating children’s books into your teaching and interaction with learners, you can engage them, foster a love for reading, and promote critical thinking and literacy skills. In this guide, you will find a variety of strategies and ideas to support your teaching of children’s literature and reading to children, including social and emotional learning (SEL), universal design for learning (UDL), teaching reading comprehension, text processing strategies, and vocabulary development. The guide is organized into three sections.