• Is better prepared to learn to read. (National Reading Panel, 2000)

• Has heard more than 30 million words by age 3 and has a vocabulary of 20,000 words by age 6. (Hare & Risley, 1995.)

• Children from low-income families typically enter school a full year and a half behind their middle-class peers in language ability. The average middle-class first grader has been read to more than 1,250 hours. For some children in low-income families, the comparable figure is 25 hours. (University of Chicago)

PLA/ALSC Every Child Ready to Read® @ Your Library®
A wealth of information on this national project sponsored by the American Library Association. Training in Ohio will be based on this model.

Get Ready to Read
For early education and child care professionals to help preschoolers get ready to read. Sponsored by the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Reading is Fundamental
Supports educators in assuring that all children become lifelong readers.

Reading Rockets
Offers information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. Sections for teachers, professionals, families.

READY TO READ is administered by the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Library Council and is made possible, in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Funds, awarded to the State Library of Ohio by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Dayton Metro Library and Columbus Metropolitan Library have provided additional resources to this project.