Story Sprouts

Good kid's books that you won't mind reading over and over again.

Along with Parent Reading Guides so you know you are building your child's early literacy skills.

Books you know are good

Every month, a reading specialist will curate a selection of high-quality children’s books, but the best part is that you get to pick exactly which one is the best fit for your family. But you’ll have the peace of mind knowing that whatever you pick, it will be good!

Parent Reading Guides to build literacy skills

Each book that you choose will come with a Parent Reading Guide that will give you all of the tips, questions, and prompts you need to feel confident that you are doing everything you can to make the most out of your reading time together.

Fun for your whole family

Not only does reading to your child foster brain development, it also one of the best ways we can bond with our children! So relax, snuggle up, and enjoy a story!

Parent Reading Guides

Reading together is a great way to bond with our children - I know those bedtime snuggles can be the best part of my day! But did you know that being read to at home between the ages of 0-5 is the single most important factor in predicting your child’s educational success!?With our Parent Reading Guides, you can be confident that you are helping to prepare your child for reading and educational success once they begin school. We will give you the tips that you need to support your child’s oral language and comprehension skills as you read our books together.

What's in our Parent Reading Guides?

Background Knowledge

The Parent Reading Guide will give you tips and ideas to help your child learn more about a certain topic relating to the book you have chosen. The more background knowledge your child can build, the easier it will be for him or her to understand what they hear and read!

Vocabulary

Did you know that your child’s vocabulary is one of the best detering factors in your child’s future reading ability?! It’s true - the more words they know directly impacts all of their other learning! The Parent Reading Guides will highlight specific words for you to point out to your child, and we also provide you with wording and kid-friendly explanations.

Language

Children can only understand what they read when they can understand what they hear. The Parent Reading Guides will include tips on how you can support your child’s oral language development in understanding and speaking with increasing sentence complexity.

Comprehension

There are so many things that our children have to pay attention to as we read other than just listening to the words we read! Sometimes the pictures or illustrations give us more details, or the author expects them to use background knowledge to figure things out on their own! These comprehension skills don’t come naturally - we need to teach them! The Parent Reading Guides will offer questions and prompts for you to use as you read to ensure that you are supporting your child’s comprehension development.

Literacy Knowledge

When our children know what to expect as they are reading, they are far more likely to enjoy and understand what they read. Our Parent Reading Guides give you ideas of prompts and questions you can use to support your child’s understanding of story structure as well as how information is organized.