The Dollar General Literacy Foundation
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Sesame Workshop share a commitment to helping parents and caregivers ignite their children’s love for reading and develop their language and literacy skills.
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Sesame Workshop share a commitment to helping parents and caregivers ignite their children’s love for reading and develop their language and literacy skills. Language is a key part of early childhood education and helps lay the foundation for success in school.
When parents and children read together and engage in literacy activities, it can ignite curiosity and help develop lifelong literacy skills. Developing early literacy skills can boost vocabulary, oral language, comprehension, ability to identify words, letter-sound recognition, and print awareness.
New resources that make learning fun, available in English and Spanish, are designed to support parents and caregivers as they introduce children to exciting new worlds within the pages of a story.
A Star Reader
There are many steps to reading, and all are important to becoming a great reader. It’s a process!
Buzzing About Books
As children grow, they can engage with books (and caring grown-ups!) in special ways.
One More Time
There are lots of different ways to share the same story, again and again!
Grow, Grow, Grow!
A story about Elmo and his daddy using a book to grow a flower.
Read with Me
Track your reading progress with some printable bookmarks!
The Perfect Book: An Act Along Story
Make story time more engaging by encouraging children to act out what they hear!
My Favorite Part
Help little ones share special parts of stories in words and pictures.
A Mighty Voice
Finding confidence in the ways that you tell stories will make them even more special to the children you share them with.
Tips for Shared Reading with Children Birth to Three
Tips for using reading time to bond with your child and build their language and literacy skills.
Tips for Shared Reading with Children Three to Five
Tips to make shared reading a time for learning and connection.
Sesame Street: Reading is Fun!
A playlist of short videos about reading.
