Reading 101: A Guide for Parents
Discover what it takes to build important literacy skills, and how you can help your children grow as readers, writers, and thinkers!
8 Steps to Literacy Coaching at Home
Developed by the National Center on Improving Literacy, here are 8 steps parents can do to help boost a child’s literacy skills at home.
3 Super-Sneaky Ways to Get Kids Hooked on a Book Series
From Scholastic, keep young readers turning pages with these tips to get them gripped on a series.
A Guide to Using Graphic Novels With Children and Teens
Are graphic novels for you? Should you be taking a closer look at this format? How might graphic novels fit into your library collection, your curriculum, and your classroom? Want to know more? If so, this guide is for you.
Raina Telgemeier’s Graphic Novels Teach Kids It’s Okay to Have Big Feelings
Graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier has been described as “like the Beatles for teenagers.” Her popular books depict feelings and emotions young people may not want to talk about with adults, like adolescent anxiety, loneliness and embarrassment. John Yang sits down with Telgemeier to discuss her work and her legions of fans.
How to Get and Keep Boys Reading
Award-winning authors Jon Scieszka, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett Krosoczka, Jack Gantos, and Jeff Kinney gathered at Kinney’s bookstore in Plainville, Massachusetts for a lively panel discussion on how to motivate boys to become lifelong readers.
Everybody Wins! Iowa Power Read Mentor Handbook
Our reading mentor handbook which contains program information, policies, tips, and best practices when it comes to being a Power Read mentor.
The Mentor’s Field Guide: Answers You Need to Help Kids Succeed
Designed to be a one-stop resource for mentors, this guide doesn’t flinch from the tough problems. Using a helpful question-and-answer format, it addresses issues that include How do I connect with my mentee? What if I don’t like my mentee? and My mentee is in serious trouble, how far do I go to help him? For mentors, the book addresses the rewards as well as the risks of mentoring, while program leaders can use the challenges and solutions to help mentors understand their roles and equip them to handle tough mentoring issues.
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
MENTOR’s mission is to fuel the quality and quantity of mentoring relationships for America’s young people and to close the mentoring gap for the one in three young people growing up without this critical support. Their website provides many great mentoring resources.
The Iowa Mentoring Partnership (IMP) is a collaborative program of Volunteer Iowa and serves as the certifying body for quality local youth mentoring programs. Everybody Wins! Iowa is a certified youth mentoring program by the Iowa Mentoring Partnership.
Social and Emotion Learning (SEL), Trauma Informed Care, and Mental Health Tips and Tricks
A short guide from Everybody Wins! Iowa that contains tips and tricks in relation to students and social and emotion learning (SEL), mental health and trauma informed care.
