
Alphabet
Connect letters to sounds through playful ABC activities, alliteration, and vocabulary-building fun.
These research-based resources and lesson plans are designed for a variety of audiences to contribute to Pennsylvania and national core curriculum in support of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's mission to promote books and literacy to the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Connect letters to sounds through playful ABC activities, alliteration, and vocabulary-building fun.

Families explore how block play supports literacy, problem-solving, and meaningful connection.

Build early math skills with counting books and playful number-based activities.

Friendship-themed books foster empathy, cooperation, and social-emotional growth.

Caregivers and children will use hands-on building activities to reinforce growth mindset strategies and positive modeling.

Get the whole family involved in a game of hide and seek using phrases from the book, Catch Me If You Can!

Engage in shared reading as parents/caregivers demonstrate the "five-finger rule" and context clues.

Caregivers will read They All Saw a Cat with their children, practicing explicit and implicit questions to build observation skills, reasoning, and perspective-taking.

From towering T. rexes to ancient mammoths, young readers explore prehistoric worlds while building vocabulary, storytelling, and early science connections.

Families explore who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to build children's comprehension.

Encourage collaborative storytelling and foster creativity by using puppets to retell Move Over, Rover!

Experience the rhythm of A Tree for Me through a DIY shaker creation activity.

Parents/caregivers use their foundation in nutrition and a balanced plate to help their children sort food into categories

From fire trucks to race cars, young readers engage in hands-on learning and literacy-rich pretend play with their favorite vehicles.

Wordless books inspire storytelling, vocabulary growth, and multilingual family engagement.