Family Resources
Here you’ll find tips and strategies to support your child, develop their skills, and nurture their love of reading.
Interactive Reading Guides
Book-specific guides contain helpful strategies and fun activities.
Resources
Bookmarks and fun activities to help kids strengthen literacy skills and build reading confidence.
Videos
Our videos offer tips for caregivers to engage with reading in a child-friendly way.
Resource Hub
The Resource Hub includes information about local, state, and national organizations and resources to help caregivers access literacy supports. These resources are provided for informational purposes only; this is not an endorsement or approval by the UF Lastinger Center for Learning or the New Worlds Reading Initiative.
Book List & Reading Guides
We provide book-specific assets for each book sent out through the New Worlds Reading Initiative. For a comprehensive list of all books shipped since December 2021, please see this list. Activities are still available on our website for each book on this list. Families will receive the nine specific books that they select at the beginning of each year.
Videos for Families
Use Child-Friendly Vocabulary
Make Read Alouds Fun (Grades K-2)
Create Reading Routines (Grades 3-5)
Interactive Reading Guides
Decoding Manipulative Letters
Decoding Multisyllabic Words
First Reading
Dialogic Reading using CROWD
How to Ask Open-Ended Questions
Understanding your child’s routine assessments
4 Tips for using the Interactive Reading Guide
Why letter sounds matter
Why you should read 20 minutes a day with your child
Four ways to help your child read fluently
How writing supports reading
New Worlds Scholarship
Step Up For Students administers the New Worlds Scholarship, which offers families access to education savings accounts, worth $500 each, to pay for tuition and fees related to part-time tutoring, summer and after-school literacy programs, laptops, tablets and more!