Skip to main content

Secondary navigation - Literacy Central

  • SIGN IN
  • REGISTER
  • SEARCH
Home Literacy Central Literacy Central Literacy Network
Reading is Fundamental
DONATE

Main navigation Literacy Central

  • Find Book Activities
  • Tools
    • Activity Calendars
    • Puzzle Creator
    • Graphic Organizers
    • Literacy Tracker (Assessment Tool)
    • Reading Incentives
    • BeeLine Reader
    • Skybrary Free eBooks
  • Centers
    • Early Childhood Education
    • Well-Being
    • Sustainable Futures
    • Sense of Belonging
    • Independent Reading
    • Virus and Germ
  • Resources
    • Monthly Teaching Resources
    • CCSS Alignment
    • Rally to Read
    • Summer Reading Program
    • Daily Book Bites
    • Lesson Plans
    • Puzzles
    • Read Aloud Videos
    • Leveled Reading Passages
    • Author Interviews
  • DONATE

Secondary navigation - Literacy Central

  • SIGN IN
  • REGISTER
  • SEARCH

Sign up for our Newsletter

  1. Home
  2. Literacy Central
1-24 of 316 results for All Resources

Pagination

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Image
Moving Day book cover

Moving Day

Written by Storytime and Illustrated by Dilara Karakas
When Isaac’s parents move home for a new job, the boy makes a friend on a whole new world.
2nd - 3rd
Image
Friends for Freedom book cover

Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass

Written by Suzanne Slade and Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell
Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass formed an unlikely friendship and worked together to fight for equality and change the nation.
1st - 4th
Image
The Compass of Life book cover

The Compass of Life

Written by Storytime and Illustrated by Manuel Mal
Little Albert gets a cool gift – where do you think it will lead him?
2nd - 3rd
Image
A Kind of Magic book cover

A Kind of Magic

Written by Storytime and Illustrated by Carol D’Avila
Farrokh was a shy and quiet boy – but then he discovered the power of music!
2nd - 3rd
Image
Ogre Bully

The Ogre Bully

Written and Illustrated by Aaron B. Hoffmire
In this engaging Swedish folktale, a hardworking farmer and his wife must use their wits to save their land from a greedy, mean-spirited ogre.
Pre-K - 3rd
Image

Where's Waldo?

Written and Illustrated by Martin Handford
RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1987. Readers search crowded, detailed scenes to find Waldo and his friends in this interactive picture book phenomenon.
K - 4th

First Big Book of the Ocean: Guide for Families (en Español)

Use this discussion guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

Image

The Book of Mistakes

Written and Illustrated by Corinna Luyken
RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Uh oh, something went wrong with the painting! But this artist has a secret: mistakes can turn into something amazing. Can you guess what she makes out of her smudges and messy marks?
Pre-K - 3rd

Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super Soaking Stream of Inventions: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

Rosie Revere, Engineer: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

Pierre the Penguin: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

First Big Book of the Ocean: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Use this discussion guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

We Are Water Protectors: Guide for Families (en Español)

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

We Are Water Protectors: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

Image

Explosion at the Poem Factory

Written by Kyle Lukoff and Illustrated by Mark Hoffmann
RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. What would happen if poems were made on an assembly line, just like toys or canned soup? When piano teacher Kilmer Watts loses his job and ends up working in a poem factory, he discovers that making real poetry is a lot more complicated than pulling levers and pushing buttons.
1st - 4th

Lubaya's Quiet Roar: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Lubaya's Quiet Roar printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for...

Counting on Katherine: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 printable Guide for Families provides...

Are Trees Alive?: Guide for Families (አማርኛ)

Are Trees Alive? printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

Follow Chester!: Guide for Families (Español)

Follow Chester!: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History printable Guide for...

Aaalligator!: Guide for Families (Español)

AAALLIGATOR! printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

Thank You, Omu!: Guide for Families (en Español)

Thank You, Omu! printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

We Are Water Protectors: Guide For Families

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading with your child.

The Memory Coat: Guide for Families (Español)

The Memory Coat printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

Mardi Gras Almost Didn't Come This Year: Guide for Families (Español)

Mardi Gras Almost Didn't Come This Year printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities...

Pagination

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

FILTER

Resources

  • Book Resource
  • Support Material

Support Material Types

  • activity
  • lesson plan
  • vocabulary
  • game
  • reading passage
  • video

Grades

  • Pre-K
  • K
  • 1st
  • (-) 2nd
  • 3rd
  • 4th
  • 5th
  • 6th
  • 7th

Lexile Range

  • (-) 501-900

Genre

  • fiction
  • nonfiction
  • narrative nonfiction
  • biography
  • historical fiction
  • picture book
  • poetry
  • folktale

Themes

  • stem
  • animals
  • family
  • perseverance
  • nature
  • community
  • habitats
  • biography
  • environment
  • friendship
  • growing up
  • problem solving
  • weather
  • architecture
  • art
  • civil rights
  • ecology
  • emotions & feelings
  • families
  • history
  • inventions
  • self acceptance
  • space
  • sports
  • survival
  • water cycle
  • adventure
  • african american culture
  • african american history
  • american history
  • american indian culture
  • bravery
  • building
  • collaboration
  • conservation
  • counting
  • courage
  • creativity
  • culture
  • dance
  • equality
  • exercise
  • gardening
  • geography
  • hard work
  • homelessness
  • humor
  • immigration
  • indigenous
  • math and arithmetic
  • multigenerational families
  • music
  • numbers
  • rescue
  • traditions
  • urban life
  • acceptance
  • accepting differences
  • across many cultures
  • agriculture
  • alaska
  • alphabet
  • ambition
  • animal adaptations
  • arts and entertainment
  • australia
  • aviation
  • award winners & favorites
  • bilingual
  • birds
  • black history
  • careers
  • caregiving
  • celebration
  • celebrations
  • children
  • communication
  • community helpers
  • compassion
  • confidence
  • consequences
  • content area & nonfiction
  • crafting
  • cultural identity
  • deforestation
  • dental health
  • determination
  • diversity
  • dual language
  • economics
  • education
  • electricity
  • empathy
  • endangered animals
  • endangered species
  • energy
  • engineering
  • entrepreneurship
  • environment and ecology
  • fairy tale

Donate

Your contribution will help us to provide free books and literacy resources to children across the nation.

Donate

A Trusted Charity

RIF AwardsGuideStarBetter Business BureauCharity Navigator
Home Literacy Central Literacy Central Literacy Network
Reading is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental

750 First Street, NE

Suite 920

Washington, DC 20002

1 (877) RIF-READ

1 (877) 743-7323

  • FAQ
  • CONTACT US   
  • CAREERS
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • TERMS OF USE     
  • FINANCIAL INFORMATION

CONNECT

Sign up for our Newsletter

Since 1966

RIF LogoRIF LogoRIF LogoRIF Logo

© Reading Is Fundamental. All rights reserved. RIF is a 501(c)(3).


The logo for Macy's. A white star sits to the left of the company name, Macy's. The apostrophe in the name is replaced with a smaller star.

Literacy Central is a free resources for parents, teachers and children thanks in part to the generous support of Macy’s.