Early learning downloadable resources
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NYC Early Literacy Resources
New York City’s Department of Education provides family guidance for building early reading and writing skills through talk, play, reading, library use, and multilingual tip sheets.
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Nature for Children Every Day
Nature Explore’s Nature for Children Every Day initiative offers child-focused advocacy and free tools that help families and educators build meaningful daily connections with the natural world.
Australian Science Week Early Childhood Resources 2026
National Science Week and the University of Canberra provide EYLF-aligned science activities, instruction sheets, and family postcards for young children.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Early Learning Programs
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh offers early-learning programs for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and caregivers, alongside museum@home activities and sensory-friendly options.
Virtual Early Explorers
The University of Alaska Museum of the North’s Virtual Early Explorers programme provides themed activities and at-home tips for children five and under with an adult, including animals, art, light, water, pollinators, and the solar system.
OELP Digital Resource Centre
OELP’s Digital Resource Centre offers freely available evidence-based practical tools for young children, families, and educators covering school readiness, early literacy, numeracy, and higher-order thinking.
Language Learning for Children
Language Learning for Children is a free, adaptable, family-based curriculum for children ages 3–9 that helps families and mixed-age classrooms begin learning a second language in any language.
MoMA Lessons for Early Learners
MoMA’s early learner collection uses modern art to support active learning through themed printable lessons for Pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and families.
Project Sahitya
Project Sahitya provides a free literacy toolkit with lessons, songs, flashcards, and worksheets designed for early reading support.
Literacy LIFTER
The Iowa Reading Research Center’s free LIFTER tool supports handwriting and early reading with evidence-based letter instruction, videos, assessments, and English/Spanish worksheets.
NC Literacy at Home
North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction Literacy at Home hub provides grade-level family activities from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade covering phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral language.
Nebraska Family and Early Literacy Resources
Nebraska Department of Education’s family literacy hub collects read-aloud guidance, food-themed literacy toolkits, bilingual family resources, videos, and downloadable reading plans.
Museum Wales Family Learning
Family trails, museum events, craft ideas, sensory resources, and at-home activities from the national museums of Wales.
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