Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

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Advisors

Reading Rockets is guided by an advisory panel made up leading researchers and experts in the field of reading.

Dr. Lynn Fuchs
Vanderbilt University, Department of Special Education

Dr. Louisa Moats
Former Director, NICHD Early Interventions Project

Dr. Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar
University of Michigan, Educational Studies

Dr. Louise Spear-Swerling
Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Special Education and Reading

Dr. Lee Swanson
University of California, Riverside, School of Education

Dr. Julie Washington
University of Wisconsin – Madison

Dr. Joanna Williams
Columbia University, Teachers College

"Reading Rockets is wonderful for my training of daycare providers and parents in my early childhood literacy program through the library."
~ Susan O.

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Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers research-based and best-practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. It is an educational service of public television station WETA in Washington, D.C.

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