Strategies for teaching young children to read 

Using everyday texts in a literacy program

http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/English/chris.htm

An interview with a classroom teacher in which she gives an overview of her literacy program, with particular emphasis on using everyday texts and talks about how she involves parents in her program. Australia

Rhymes, chants, alliteration - phonemic activities

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/e_literacy/awareness.html
The benefits of language play are numerous. Language play involves having fun with the sounds of words, creating new words, and exploring and creating language patterns through rhymes, chants, and alliteration and repetitions. Canada

Strategies to help children read

http://www.readingrockets.org/articles/333
Encouraging children to develop an awareness and appreciation of the written word, teaching them the alphabet and to attend to the sounds in language (develop phonological and phoneme awareness) are some of the strategies used to help children to read. United States

Buildings children's vocabularies and story sense

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/e_literacy/responding.html
Listening, reading, dramatizing, the telling and retelling of a familiar stories helps young children build their vocabularies and understand the parts of a story and how they are related. Canada

Read aloud - a print awareness strategy

http://www.readingrockets.org/articles/3400
Print awareness is an important part of learning to read. Reading aloud to children is an important strategy for developing print awareness and there are specific strategies that can be used do before, during, and after a read aloud activity to help kids develop print awareness.United States

Print awareness - setting up the environment

http://www.readingrockets.org/articles/3399
The foundation of all other literacy learning builds upon print awareness. Print awareness is a child's earliest understanding that written language carries meaning. United States