Educator Resources
Curriculum and Literacy Guides
Our guides include research-based strategies for integrating early literacy lessons and activities into your preschool, childcare center, or home. Guides incorporate suggested titles, read-aloud tips, and extension activities.
Curriculum GuidesHigh–Quality Books
Our booklists support literacy-rich environments for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Available in English and Spanish, our booklists pertain to a variety of themes (transportation, movement, colors, etc.), informational texts, and wordless books.
Book ListsFor educators
For more information about resources and programming for early childhood educators, please be sure to fill out our interest form and we will contact you!
Video Gallery
Our educator video gallery features a diverse variety of short, engaging videos to help you find ways to help support early literacy in your preschool, childcare center, or home-care environment. Check back frequently for updated videos!
View the Educator Video Gallery >Reading Challenge
Twice a year, Make Way for Books invites child care centers and home providers to share five books a day with their children for five days. In previous years, more than 140 classrooms participated and educators shared more than 3,550 books with their children. Are you up to the challenge?
Get the Reading Challenge Form >Additional Resources
Information regarding workshops provided by other agencies is through the Early Childhood Bulletin and the United Way for Tucson and Southern Arizona.