Nemours BrightStart! offers tools, resources, services, and training to parents, educators, and health professionals to help ensure that every child receives a bright
start on the road to reading success.
Help Your Child Get a Nemours BrightStart!
Nemours BrightStart! tools, resources, services, and training can help ensure
that every child receives a bright start on the road to reading success.
Screening Process
Nemours BrightStart! reading readiness screenings are very child-friendly. Specially trained staff work one-on-one with the child to check his or her knowledge of print, letter names, sounds, and listening skills that support the abilities required in learning to read.
A Parent's Guide to Reading Readiness
This guide gives parents of children age 3 to 5 information on how to support their child on his or her reading journey. Along with invaluable advice, the book, available in English and Spanish, provides: A checklist of reading readiness skills, lists of children’s books, and fun activities to do at home.
Milestone Map
This full-color illustrated poster addresses parents' and educators' concerns about children's reading readiness and progress. It includes milestones and warning signs indicating when children may be at risk for reading challenges from birth through age 6.
Mobile Units
Our state-of-the-art mobile classrooms bring Nemours BrightStart! expertise out to you. We provide screening, instruction, and general information at events in communities throughout the year. Please check Community Events for dates, locations, and information, or call 1-877-878-3118
to schedule a visit.
Workshops for Parents
Nemours BrightStart! is proud to offer free parent education workshops on a variety of early literacy topics. Please check Community Events for dates, locations, and information.
Identify At-Risk Learners as Early as Possible
Nemours BrightStart! has developed programs and curricula that have been field tested with thousands of pre-kindergarteners at risk of reading failure. They have proven highly effective in building alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness skills that support future reading success. Plus, they are the perfect enhancement to any pre-kindergarten or kindergarten program — especially those serving at-risk learners.
Programs & Curricula
Nemours BrightStart! has formed a relationship with Kaplan Early Learning Company, a leading international provider
of products and services that enhance children’s learning,
to carry Nemours BrightStart! programs and products throughout the U.S.
Training & Professional Development
Our unique “live” professional development offerings are designed to assist you in supporting each child’s reach for full potential through literacy success. All trainings are designed incorporating research-based adult learning techniques, to help you get the most out of the experience and start using what you learn right away.
Identify At-Risk Learners as Early as Possible
Nemours BrightStart! offers health professionals the necessary tools to
establish a dialogue with parents and offer children the best opportunity for long-term reading success. We’ve designed various tools and educational options for health professionals related to reading development, dyslexia, and the role that health professionals can play in talking with parents about these important topics.
The Health Care Professional's Toolkit
Nemours BrightStart! created the Health Care Professional's Toolkit to assist pediatricians, family practice physicians, and others in identifying youngsters who may be at risk for dyslexia and reading failure, and in counseling families.
